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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work full time, make almost 10 times what my wife does, do most of the things SAH does (school drop off, appointments, activity logistics, shopping, etc), travel planning, plus home maintenance. My wife still thinks I am useless and don't contribute.

People have different prospective, some are realistic some aren't.  My guess is a lot fall in the middle. [/quote]

Honestly trying to understand how this applies to my question. I was asking about an unemployed husband.[/quote]

DH, is that you?

Seriously… What does your wife do and why does she think you don’t contribute?

I could see my DH riding something like this, but the truth is, although he does help with household tasks, I do 90% of them. Plus, I do the harder stuff… If DC has an 8 AM soccer game 45 minutes away, I go. If it’s a 1 p.m. in the afternoon game in our town, he’ll go. He’d say he went to one and I went to one… Not really equal in my book… He would say it was more like 50-50. He does not have a realistic perspective AT ALL. [/quote]

Are you employed? Do you work equal hours? If not, then what you describe sounds fair. My DH and I both work, but he works longer hours with a difficult commute, and he earns most of our HHI, so I do more on the home front; he is an active participant, but naturally I do more and that seems fair to me.[/quote]

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