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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am pretty sure if we referred to a SAHM as unemployed all h*ll would break lose here.

Your husband is a full time parent.

70 hours a week of commuting, work, parenting and household tasks isn't much. That is 10 hours a day.

Your husband sounds depressed and you don't appreciate what he does or brings to the home. You sound so resentful that he wants a break after you get home. Again if genders were reversed and a man was complaining that not only did his wife expect a break but he also was still having to cut the lawn and take out the garbage because his SAHM wife wasn't getting it done..

Sounds like you are living a pretty typical life ina home where one parent is the breadwinner and te other is a sahp. Millions of men could write your post![/quote]

But doesn't the SAHP usually grocery shop?  Do the laundry?  Drop off the dry cleaning?  I SAH with four kids, and I normally do all of that.  Sometimes DH goes to the dry cleaner himself, and he is definitely willing to throw in a load of laundry or pick up something at the grocery store, but I think it's pretty common for the SAHP to take care of most household admin tasks.[/quote]

There are definitely many posts by SAHMs on here about how overwhelmed they are, they can barely find time to shower, they are struggling with running around all day after a 1 year old and keeping them safe and just can't get everything done. If they told us their husband has a list of things he wants done and they just can't get to it - I doubt people would be telling her to shape up and just get done whatever it is her husband wants done around the house - that depressed or overwhelmed or not, she is expected to run around after the kid all day, get all the household work done, fulfill her husbands list of things like getting the lawn mowed and oh - she should also be job hunting and going on interviews and getting a job while doing this too.[/quote]

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