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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Homemaker"? "Running the household"? Are you people under 65?

I am currently staying home with my kids while they are young and I have taken more of the burden of household crap, but that's not my "job". I just do it because I have a little more time at home and don't mind. Trying to make things easier for all of us. But it's not MY JOB. :lol:

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7:21 here: I'm 49 and have three kids. I said not per se. In the warmer periods, DH will use the grill or I will. It's just more practical for me to plan dinner. Also, DH is exhausted from work/commuting when he gets home to be with us.

Everybody, a positive, loving attitude is key to "making a home" too! Why would anybody -- man or woman because I know several one income gay families, too, BTW -- want to come home to people as snarky as some DCUM posters?

Make home life a joy, not a drag.[/quote]

Your DH is exhausted from sitting in a car listening to adult music. He sounds like the biggest baby of them all.

Let's see how exhausted he'd be caring for a baby and a toddler 12 hrs a day x 5 days a week. :lol:[/quote]

Maybe we'd all have an easier time getting a long and working things out if we stopped playing the "who works harder" game with our spouses. Sure, as a SAHM I sometimes envy my DH's commute because it's 45 minutes of listening to music and not having anyone ask anything of him. But then I remember it's also 45 minutes of dealing with stop-and-go DC traffic, which used to aggravate the everloving shit out of me when I was working. DH and I have a general policy that it's an hour of the day when you couldn't have your butt planted on the couch binge-watching something non-kid appropriate on Netflix if you wanted to, you're on duty and working. Works beautifully for working out these kinds of issues.[/quote]

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