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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's why you divide up these chores when you get married. My DH loves to cook (I hate it) so he's in charge of cooking, cleaning and grocery shopping. I don't mind laundry so I do all of it. I also iron/steam stuff while watching TV at night. We have a cleaner come once a month. In between, we just talk about what needs to be done and do it. We share a calendar and store lists. As for the kids, I get the kids ready and drop them off at daycare and school and he picks them up. While he makes dinner, he goes through the kid's take-home folders and deals with that stuff. I go through the mail after dinner. We usually alternate sleeping in days on the weekend. Errands (not grocery shopping) are run by me mostly on the way home from work but Amazon has made everything so much easier.[/quote]

I'm sure PP is trying to be helpful, but I find this kind of response maddening.  DH and I had a great division of labor pre-pandemic, but juggling work and child care and other issues has left us scrambling for a year plus.

Some nights I am too tired to watch TV.  Everything exhausts me and it's not a division of labor.[/quote]

[b]Okay but it still all needs to get done. My suggestions are one way to divide it up. None of this means I am not tired but unless you have the money to hire people to do stuff for you, you're going to be tired. I did hire a teen to mow our lawn this summer and I think I'll do it again next year. He was affordable and lived down the street so he always cut it when it was getting long instead of every Thursday or whatever. Money well spent.[/quote][/b]

Right, but people on this thread aren't complaining about too much to do or bad divisions of labor.  They are complaining about never-ending exhaustion.  Suggesting a better division of labor would solve this misses the point in my opinion.[/quote]

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