Housework - Yours, Mine or Ours?
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Sharing Housework? KEY to a Successful Marriage?
In a recent debate I was asked to choose "Yes" or "No" to the question "Is sharing housework between husbands and wives the key to successful marriages?"
I wrote an article that explains why I answered "NO" -
The value of shared housework has been debated, paraded and broadcast since the age of enlightenment, ERA and women's liberation. Frequent attempts to lure men into sharing of housework resulted in husbands grown weary of "honey-do" lists and nagging wives. Sitcoms and movies capitalize on this topic more than any other. Mrs. Cleaver, Jeanie, Samantha, Alice and Mrs. Brady, Lucy, and Mrs. Walton eternally slave over the stove while their Misters do nothing but steal a peck, a pinch or a spoonful. Let the viewer take frequent note, these were successful marriages.
But seriously folks, if sharing housework was The Key to a Successful Marriage ... <read more>
Read more from both sides of the Debate and then Share Your Vote.
Men are allowed to be consistently inept
Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Marriage & Housework: Additional Perspectives
- Story - Key to Good Marriage? Share Housework - AOL News
- The percentage of Americans who consider children "very important" to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal, according to a sweeping new survey.
- ABC News: Don't Have Kids, Stay Happily Married?
- Survey: Fewer Americans See Kids as Key to a Good Marriage, Say Sharing Chores More Important
- Equal Partnership in Marriage
- Routine housework, on the other hand, like cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and washing dishes, is more time consuming and must be done regularly and repeatedly. Most people, male or female, find these routine jobs dull and tedious. In general, women do more than their share of routine housework. When men are willing to pick up more of these routine tasks rather than relegating most of them to women, they help create a more equal partnership.
- Housework and Marriage
- If housework is not equally shared in your home, please tell us the types of conflicts that it creates, and what solutions you would like
- How to Get a Man to do Housework - Men and Marriage by Marty Friedman at Married Romance
- How to Get a Man to do Housework - Men and Marriage by Marty Friedman at Married Romance ~ building friendship and intimacy through the trials of life
- The Politics of Housework
- The Politics of Housework was a highly article that caused people to rethink their attitudes toward domestic labor.
- Marriage-ology: Housework
- This is part 6 of the "How to have a great marriage" series. Here we'll be discussing the basics of having a good marriage, on the way to a great marriage.
While it's not #1 on the list of topics that couples fight about, housework is always up there in top five, usually close behind money. - Housework
- Who knew? We all grumble about doing housework, but when we started researching, we had no idea how huge an issue housework really was. Depending on the culture, it's a huge part of family structures and dynamics. It's literally role defining. At the same time, there's more at stake than just a load of dirty laundry. Housework even effects marital happiness.
Housework is Positively Masculine
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.
Barbara Kolb
Barbara Kolb
Housework in Print
Housework - Tell it like it is
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp -
I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.
Heloise Cruse -
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
Phyllis Diller
Housework & Intimacy
- Annie: No excuse for husband's lack of help with chores
- Lake-Effect Wife DEAR WIFE: Marriage is a partnership. Married couples who have disparate incomes and insist on splitting the bills often run into these problems. Since you work the same hours, you should both do equal amounts of housework and share ...
- The MRS and the Ph.D.
- Is this really the fate facing educated heterosexual women: either no marriage at all or a marriage with more housework and less sex? Nonsense. That may have been the case in the past, but no longer. For a woman seeking a satisfying relationship as ...
- Girls Gone Hyper
- Coontz has just advised young ladies to marry short, poor, ignorant, obscure, ineffectual men who will help with household chores. If that's not settling, the word has no meaning. We need to respond to this culture that sends confusing signals to young ...
My theory on housework
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares.
Why should you?
Erma Bombeck
Why should you?
Erma Bombeck
Sharing the Gifts of Housework
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Bloggers talk Housework
- Daughter found locked in bathroom for 10 years
- She would be allowed to get out of the bathroom only in the middle of the night so that she could do the house work. She would be locked inside again around dawn. She did not see any sunlight for about a decade. Baraa was given only a blanket, ...
- Procedure Committee - Rt Hon Sir George Young MP - Sittings of the House and ...
- It has its wives and husbands and its children or whatever well outside the city. Members of Parliament travel to London on Monday and they are then stuck here doing whatever they are doing until Thursday. If we are going to maximise the use of a ...
Housework Revealed
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Housework, if you do it right...
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. (Evan Esar)
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