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I agree and commented as such above. However, just to play devil's advocate, what about women who refuse to learn how to do car maintenance, house/yard upkeep, etc?

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I think the big thing is that both people need to do the day-to-day things in the home. For example, I am good with doing our taxes, but am hopeless with tech, and DH is the reverse, so he hooks up the internet and I do the taxes. You don't all have to know how to do everything. But your examples are very occasional (and often outsource-able) things. In our family, as well as in my family growing up, and I imagine in many 2 income professional families, car maintenance means bringing the car to the car place, maybe putting air in the tires at the gas station. House/yard upkeep means calling the mowing company. Maybe you get out with the kids at the beginning of spring to spread some mulch and plant some annuals together and pull some weeds here and there. Changing a tire means calling AAA. Even to the extent these tasks are not outsourced, they are not daily tasks. I would enjoy cooking once a week, or hosting a dinner party once a month, but cooking every day (and the planning that is involved) really makes it a chore. In our family, and I imagine in many "equal" marriages, DH still does more of the traditionally male tasks and I do more of the traditionally female tasks- because that is where our inclinations and abilities lie- but we both contribute equally to the day-to-day drudgework, and we thank the other for the things they do (even if we would've done it differently). [/quote]

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