Look at the results of this MSNBC poll and tell me if any of you married guys line up with those results.
I will say I certainly know how to do all of that shit, I was a batchelor for many years before I got remarried but The Wifely Unit is a staunch Conservative and a deep believer in traditional gender roles.
And I love her dearly for it.
When the kids were little, all those were 99% my wife while I worked 60 to 80 hrs a week supporting them. Now that the kids are grown, my wife still does a lot of that but her give a shit has all but disappeared and so I gotta do some of it. The good news is that I’m down to 40 – 50 hrs a week in my dottage and have a few extra hours here and there. I do about 50% of the grocery shopping and maybe 80% of the dish washing. I fuck up the laundry on purpose every time I wash so she doesn’t even allow me in the laundry room anymore. Follow me for more marriage tips.
In my working life, she did it all. As a retiree, I handle most of the chores around the house – other than kids and she still manages the grands when they visit. I’ll admit to being OCD so order and structure are important to me so the tasks line up with that, and with focus none of this stuff takes much time from a week.
My wife was a Dem, sad to say, her momma was a staunch Dem who didn’t show my wife how to do any house chores other than laundry. When we married, I had to show her how to mop a floor, how to efficiently load a dishwasher, and how to cook, which she did well enough when I was working a ton of hours all the time. Now, she just sticks to the laundry, and I do most everything else if I want it done. All of the shopping, cooking, cleaning, yard and car maintenance.
My momma, staunch Rep, made sure we ALL knew how to keep house before we grew up, how to budget money by balancing checkbooks etc. I never thought it would be related to political affiliation before, just thought it was something you learned or something you didn’t.
Damned Dems… Lol
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