Oh please! Stop talking rationally.
And why can’t the spousal unit work in tandem wrt housework when both work outside the home?
I was a SAHM for many years so the house stuff was my area. Once I went back to work, it seemed like it stayed my area, lol. My husband does a ton and seems like a whole lot more than what my friends and acquaintances husbands do...
Because when women got into the workforce wholesale, something happened. All those stay at homes? Turned out they actually DID things before they had jobs. They did the shopping, balanced the checkbook, paid the bills, did the laundry, cleaned the house, cooked, etc.
Today all that work sits idle when she is at work. So now two people walk in the door about 6pm if they are lucky. NOTHING whatsoever is done. Someone might have to shop on the way home, or pick up carry out food. They might start cooking. Laundry needs to get done. Housecleaning, etc.
SO the family is stuck doing that stuff till 9 that used to be done during the day.
They guy gets no loving cause now she’s had a 14 hour day on her feet and is tired.
The guy in the stay at home mom days, got home, had dinner soon after arriving home. Family then when on drives, walks, watched TV, sat outside, visited friends and neighbors.
The mass move of two career families has imposed an additional burden on men, (half of her old stay at home daytime work) and it has stolen the family evening away.
The additional income isn’t worth it.
Lol...The universal excuse....I mean, the universal *answer* will be: “We mow the lawn and take care of repairs”. At least, that’s what my friends and neighbors say when it comes up. Wife, working or not, takes care of the kids and the inside of the house, and husbands, working or not, take care of the lawn and repairs.
Funny, lawns don’t need any care for half the year where I live, and all the houses are new, so, not many repairs either. Yet laundry isn’t seasonal - it’s year ‘round. So is vacuuming, child care, making beds, loading the dishwasher, cooking meals and cleaning toilets...