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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems like there are some women on this board who find it no big deal to work, order groceries, cook, clean, make all the medical appointments, bring the kids to the appointments, find backup care for days school is closed, leave work early when the nurse calls saying your kid has a fever, buy gifts for other kids' birthdays, plan your own kid's birthday party, get the car fixed, research summer camps, buy the kids' clothes and shoes and coats and backpacks, pack snacks, bring your kid to speech therapy, sign them up for swimming lessons, keep track of permission slips, and sign up to chaperone field trips. Etc. If that's you, awesome! But for some of us mortals it is a lot and we would like our partners to share the load. [/quote]

Full disclosure, I don't do all those things. I actively sought out a spouse who I knew would be an equal partner and I'm just wondering why others didn't.  That's why this version of scorekeeping seems so wacky to me. [/quote]

Honest truth? Because I wanted a good looking, brilliant, high earning, sexy DH. I thought as a reasonable person, he would reasonably see his way to doing an equal share of everything. We'd talked about it, in fact. Just didn't turn out that way. Surely your "equal partner" DH has some flaws?[/quote]

He does, but not anything that is super important to me, or I wouldn't have married him.[/quote]

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