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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am really curious to hear from some of these husbands. So many women complain that they have husbands who do nothing. I wonder if husbands would agree that they do nothing - that they just sit around all lounge while wife does all the child care, all the housework, all the yard work, all the repairs. i wonder how many husbands would agree that their opinion about what needs to be done and how it should be done is equally as valued. I wonder what story objective cameras would tell.

I personally don't know of a single couple where one does 100% and the other does 0% yet on here that seems to be about 75% of all couples. [/quote]

My husband says he's "working". His job lets him do his work whenever and wherever he wants, and it is a high-intensity profession. So that's sort of plausible. Looks to me like he's scowling at his computer pretty much every waking minute. So at least he's not in the recliner with a beer.

As for who does more... when I went on strike and refused to enter, much less maintain, the basement (entirely his space), we got bugs, mice, and a small leak that he literally stepped over for weeks before I asked what was making that smell downstairs. (It was the mildew in the baseboard, which [b]I[/b] have since torn out and replaced and re-caulked.) I've returned home from four-day trips to find four days of dishes in the sink. He'll do something if I ask him to. But almost never the first time I ask. And then with the most put-upon air imaginable, as if asking the guy who's twice my size to lift one end of some heavy furniture is a really shrewish, nagging thing to do.

And no, I didn't marry this man. I'm living with a pod person who is inhabiting the body of my late husband. The guy I married was solicitous and tidy and all about being a great partner. The pod person refuses to discuss it; just goes on a bulleted tirade about all the things he has to do. [/quote]

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