dailymail.co.uk— Women have abandoned the feminist dream of equality to seek a more traditional role - and want men to be more 'retrosexual' than 'metrosexual', according to research.
Aug 28, 2008View in Crawl 4
I find it difficult to tell you how funny that was, I was in tears! I should have found it offensive and did not. On the other hand I wonder how you know of this with such certainty? And why did your mind go to just one "useful service" when thinking of husbands? Seriously I doubt any woman would find it difficult to have any number of one night stands if she is desperate enough, but most women want more - a real connection, emotionally, some quality time, and so forth. As for the "gadgets" you mentioned, Seinfeld (or was it some other tv guy?) explained how women do not need specialised gadgets; he was funny too - there were women in audience laughing genuinely as well as men - and I doubt women miss a husband only for those reasons or find it enough to buy one gadget. I bet they find a really caring non sexual gesture far more useful from even a friend or relative or children, than anything like what you mention, when separted or divorced or bereaved.
I have a housewife who was working as well as doing the chores in her home before we married. Now she stays home and does online schooling (tries-I usually have to tell her how to do it, sometimes to the point of doing it for her). You would think she'd be grateful for the break from having to work 12-hour days, 6-7 days/week that she was doing, but anytime we get in a fight, all she does is bring up how I don't do everything she does around the house (because I'm at work, hello) and how she moved into my house and how she gave up her independence and how she misses those days. She should be glad she's not having to hold a job! She doesn't see that my job is at work, hers happens to be in the home, and I still even help where I can, with loading/unloading the dishwasher, moving clothes from the washer to the dryer, I pack the kids' lunches and get them off to school, and I even planted a couple of watermelon plants she wanted planted. All she is is ungrateful - she was doing the same cooking & cleaning for her kids before we got married, I haven't asked her to do anything extra for me except to toss in my laundry when she's doing hers (not very hard since we have a common hamper). I don't expect a meal on the table, I can get it myself, especially since I work late, anyway. But I would think a woman would be in bliss in that kind of scenario, having a burden lifted from their back of holding a job plus doing the housework.
antdudeAug 29, 2008
Women think the same when men do the same when not working. :P
Closed AccountAug 31, 2008
So what your saying is, we should hook up.cool im down with that
drjgAug 31, 2008
I find it difficult to tell you how funny that was, I was in tears! I should have found it offensive and did not. On the other hand I wonder how you know of this with such certainty? And why did your mind go to just one "useful service" when thinking of husbands? Seriously I doubt any woman would find it difficult to have any number of one night stands if she is desperate enough, but most women want more - a real connection, emotionally, some quality time, and so forth. As for the "gadgets" you mentioned, Seinfeld (or was it some other tv guy?) explained how women do not need specialised gadgets; he was funny too - there were women in audience laughing genuinely as well as men - and I doubt women miss a husband only for those reasons or find it enough to buy one gadget. I bet they find a really caring non sexual gesture far more useful from even a friend or relative or children, than anything like what you mention, when separted or divorced or bereaved.
sateeshksAug 31, 2008
True, and it takes either a lot of trust or luck or both to have everything go well with such dependance.
sateeshksAug 31, 2008
Presuming you are willing to admit being wrong to your wife, and her being right?
zzygoatSep 29, 2008
...So you got something to look at while you're talking to them.
navyjax2May 27, 2009
I have a housewife who was working as well as doing the chores in her home before we married. Now she stays home and does online schooling (tries-I usually have to tell her how to do it, sometimes to the point of doing it for her). You would think she'd be grateful for the break from having to work 12-hour days, 6-7 days/week that she was doing, but anytime we get in a fight, all she does is bring up how I don't do everything she does around the house (because I'm at work, hello) and how she moved into my house and how she gave up her independence and how she misses those days. She should be glad she's not having to hold a job! She doesn't see that my job is at work, hers happens to be in the home, and I still even help where I can, with loading/unloading the dishwasher, moving clothes from the washer to the dryer, I pack the kids' lunches and get them off to school, and I even planted a couple of watermelon plants she wanted planted. All she is is ungrateful - she was doing the same cooking & cleaning for her kids before we got married, I haven't asked her to do anything extra for me except to toss in my laundry when she's doing hers (not very hard since we have a common hamper). I don't expect a meal on the table, I can get it myself, especially since I work late, anyway. But I would think a woman would be in bliss in that kind of scenario, having a burden lifted from their back of holding a job plus doing the housework.