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Many wives would still want to have a (professional and social) life even if their partner is wealthy and hard-working. If you take all care of kids and of the
by thriftwy 4y ago
Many wives would still want to have a (professional and social) life even if their partner is wealthy and hard-working. If you take all care of kids and of the house, it's quite hard to have time to be something. It's also exhausting in a bad way.
Having said that, wives often discount the bits that their husbands do for their household. It goes like: Thing A is something only my husband knows how to do, so he would be doing it; whereas we are both capable of doing B so let's share it fairly.
Things A tending to be large, more-spaced-out endeavors such as fixing things.
- sgtnoodle 4y agoMy wife and I had our second baby in October. I'm on paternity leave to help out. My wife is currently very sleep deprived due to breastfeeding at night, and she is also prone to anxiety from messy spaces. Our first child can tear up the house pretty quickly. A couple days ago, my wife was saying that she _felt_ like I wasn't helping out, even though the rational portion of her mind knows that I am. We just got our house exterior painted. Yesterday she insisted on helping out with some of the "handyman" work, and learned how to wire up some light fixtures.