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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am friends with a lot of people with ~10 year old kids.

Those with 1 kid only? Marriage and life is good.

Those with 2 kids all girls? Marriage and life is good.

Those with 2 kids all boys? Marriage in the shitter.

No kidding, but I've had the convo with multiple friends in the last 2 months about how much more horrible 2 boys is versus all the other possibilities. No sex, verge of divorce, household is constant state of stress, yelling and chaos.  But 2 girls in and around age 10? It's like there are three moms - making dinner, cleaning, and doing compliant work to make the house hold run better.  Boys is literally what's pushing my friends to divorce.[/quote]

Okay I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and then got to the part about how the daughters are cooking and cleaning.  What the actual F.[/quote]

I’m the PP you’re responding to. Like it or not, my friends with daughters - the daughters are big into being people pleasers at that age. Whether they clean and cook (and do their homework, and make their bed, and all the other Bs) without asking because they’re trying to keep the parents happy, or they’re doing it compliantly after being asked…. In either case, the girls are being little adult contributors to the house. Per dcum, most of your dhs aren’t doing that. So yeah, for better or worse, my description of being extra moms helping around the house stands. [/quote]

I have a daughter.  Please send me one of your friend's daughters immediately.  She is wonderful but she is nothing at all like what you describe.

The idea that girls are all somehow just born people pleasers is pretty F-ed up.  Probably a lot more at play here if you want to go ahead and give it some thought.
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