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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest fucking scam that men have gotten away with is "men take care of the outside and the maintenance and the cars". First of all, none of us are living on major acreage.  People with big yards end up outsourcing, and most of us in the region are on postage stamp lots, or condos or townhouses. Unless you are into mega-landscaping, the outside is nbd. No 100k+ families I know are out there on ladders cleaning gutters. "Maintenance?" Lol- my DH isn't under the sink or in the electric panel or tiling the bathroom. My favorite is the "car maintenance".  I LOVE doing the car "maintenance". I take it to Acura a few times a year and sit in their nice waiting room drinking coffee and playing on my phone. There was probably a time where all of this was hard work, when owe actually did this stuff, but it's been so pared down and outsourcing this stuff is the norm while us ladies are still trying not to feel guilty about hiring a cleaning lady. All that's left for the guys is taking out the trash (while u run around the house and round it all up and bag it up and put it in the can". And trash is only once a week!![/quote]

Well, in my 100k+ household, my husband does most of the work on our cars unless it is very complex, does all of the lawn care on our just under one acre property, and just re-tiled the shower earlier this week. He does the gutters too. He outsources very little and so do I. It's just way cheaper and frees up money for other things that we deem important. We split child care responsibilities. But I get home at 4 pm so I make dinner. I'm there. I love my husband, I love family dinner and I like to eat too.

OP, you and your husband need to sit down and talk about dividing responsibilities. It seems like your vision of SAH doesn't mesh with his and you all need to figure out what you are going to do about it. In my personal opinion though, SAH does not mean you are solely the nanny.

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