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Isn't they because your parents refuse to grow up? A roommate wouldn't tolerate that.

• pengaru 6y ago
  Not OP, but at my parents' home it's such a classical traditional division of labor that the housewife does all the cleaning, it's her domain, her full-time job. She'd be self-conscious of not doing her part (and annoying) if someone else was doing it. It wasn't even considered normal for me to cook anything in the kitchen while I still lived at home. It was like being in someone else's workshop and using all their tools and putting things back not quite where they like them or wasting soap/water when washing implements or being too messy or abusive to the equipment. It was impossible to not cause some sort of trouble, I literally started grilling outside daily to not touch the kitchen and still feed myself real food as a young adult. One could argue it was the parents refusing to grow up, but it's also arguably a predictable outcome when the husband works like a blue-collar dog to pay the bills and the wife doesn't have to work a formal job. Obviously the husband is going to expect the wife to keep the house clean and do all the cooking, if she slacks off on these relatively trivial duties while he's grouchy and overworked, bad times for sure.
  • tubularhells 6y ago
    Moroccan household?
    • pengaru 6y ago
      Italian, Scorsese's short film ITALIANAMERICAN [0] is uncannily representative, @~7:20 the husband outright declares cooking isn't his line of work. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxYl93p0ksc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxYl93p0ksc