"J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > > ATTENTION: This message is for MALE Brinellers only. All FEMALE members > should close this message IMMEDIATELY!!!
You should *know* that's not going to work on me. > Housewife seeking appreciation quits housework. > > http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Midwest/10/05/wife.strike.ap/index.html > > Guys, if our female significant others find out about this, we are in > deeeep trouble... <GRIN> If she's working to pull in a paycheck, *and* going to school, I don't see why she should be stuck with the lion's share of the housework as well. If *I* were in her situation, I'd sit down with Dan and say, "Look, I'm doing a lot more than you are, you need to pull your weight around the house better", and we'd figure out what household tasks *he* should be doing, and if he didn't do those, they wouldn't get done. Oh, wait, I was in a situation not quite as bad as hers, and we did that, and you know, *I* don't have to vacuum, *I* don't have to cook every night, *I* don't have to do all the work on doing the dishes, because we worked out an arrangement that works for us. I feel sorry for her that she needed to go on strike to get on track towards that; it probably would have been a lot better for her (although the rest of the world would have lost that particular opportunity for a wake-up call) to work out something like that with her husband before it got to that point. So, if you want to avoid this sort of situation, the thing to do is to offer to take over one or two chores (extra points for taking over the one she hates the most!) and make her feel like you're contributing to the running of the household. Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
