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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well FWIW I am the working from home spouse (man) and my wife who is a SAHM already is doing jack sh$t every other day. She gets “exhausted” or “can’t handle the kids”. So she just sleeps the whole day. Our kitchen is a war zone of dirty dishes stacked to the windows, laundry in various stages just piled all over the house. She’s used to having a cleaning lady.

Like two hours of home school per day and making a couple sandwiches is moving mountains. I work a very demanding and stressful job. Once in a while they stop screaming at each other when I ask them so I can do an important call. That’s about it. Occasionally she makes me a cup of coffee.  [/quote]

[b]Be more like this dude, OP.  It doesn’t even occur to him to do the dishes, make lunch, and help with schooling when he has a SAH spouse.  He’s not sitting next to his child and feeding him lunch while he attends an important meeting and his wife is sleeping in the other room.  He assumes lunch has been made and calls out from the home and tells everyone to be quiet so he can make an important call.

His wife is doing so much more than your husband is, OP, and this dude is still so pissed.  He isn’t looking for reasons that she might feel the way she does or coming up with lists of when the kids zoom meetings are.

Be more like him.  [/b]

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This is so true. And it’s funny how men and women react differently to having a spouse slack off, but seriously, OP you need to be more like this dude.

Stand up for yourself! Or at a minimum take care of your needs first.

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Lol.  
Someone needs to explain to him that he should just let his wife do things “her way” or do them himself.  And that just because her way doesn’t look like his way doesn’t mean it’s wrong :).  [/quote]

I think that's exactly what he is doing.

FYI dad - I'm a SAHM who does a good job (if I say so myself) and would just like to point out that homeschooling really does only take a couple hours max in our house, especially if the kid is motivated to move on to more fun things.  You have fair complaints but I'm not sure that's one of them.[/quote]

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