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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We did this earlier in our career as parents than you, but I got to a breaking point also.  My husband really had no idea how much I was doing because I was just doing it and not asking for help.  So, we sat down and I calmly told him how much I was doing and asked him to help out more. I made some suggestions for what he could be in charge of, he took some, made some others.  It wasnt a one-day conversation.  But it was very helpful and now we have a much more fair division of labor.  When I feel that I am once again doing more than he is, we have the conversation again.[/quote]

How come men never ask for advice on how to get their wives to do their fair share?  Is it that men really don't realize how much time laundry, grocery shopping, cooking and bill paying/investing take?[/quote]

Haha for years I would do grocery shopping, cooking, and bill paying/investing. And my wife is a SAHM. She took over grocery shopping -- I'd been doing it for the 16 years of marriage.

Investing -- that's maybe 1 hour a week tops and that's checking the accounts, hitting up the IRA and trading stock as my system dictates (basically I buy high-yield stocks that are running low, sell 90-95% of my stake when the price goes up, and keep the rest of the stake forever and ever. I won't even consider a stock under 4% yield unless it's a merger coming up or something like that.) [/quote]

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