Put that beer down and turn off that game, get my dinner cooking you no good louse of a husband, you're a kept man, now fix me a turky pot pie ...
Posted on 11/29/2011 1:01:34 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’m looking for a wealthy “Sugar Momma”.
Those men are so hosed when their divorces roll around...
Read the whole article. It’s worth it.
That’s not really an “alpha” woman, it’s more an issue of a non-productive male, maybe making her look alpha in comparison.
If there were true equality of opportunity, 50% of wives would be earning more than their husbands. I suspect this would upset the women more than the men.
That about sums up why men and women are different. You generally (and I said generally) don't hear men talk like that if the wife stays home.
Yes, but most wives keep house and raise the kids, etc.
Even though she might actually be freeloading? :)
I think it depends. If you have kids, somebody needs to care for them, that is reality and, in today’s world, many women can outearn their men, so it doesn’t make much sense for a woman, who is earning a lot of money to necessarily stay home.
If a man is taking care of the house, he’s not freeloading. But if I were the woman, my expectation would probably be along the lines of, if the man was laid off that he is working hard to acquire marketable skills to get back out in the job force at some point. If he’s started a home business that could become something, that should be acceptable as well.
I don’t know how these guys spend their days at home, but when I was a stay-at-home mom, my day started at 6 a.m. and didn’t stop until midnight, if then. I was on my feet continually, taking care of children, house, yardwork, cooking, shopping, laundry, errand-running, major home improvements, his business entertaining, you name it. I was the one who wiped up the vomit, changed the diapers, washed the floors, scrubbed the bathrooms, pruned the trees, cleaned the gutters, painted the house, raked the leaves, tilled the garden, taught the kids to read, or took them to the doctor, or took them to lessons; I was the one who went to the PTA meetings or talked to the teachers or helped with homework. My husband worked very hard at his job and we were each glad we did not have to do what the other did. So why some men think their stay-at-home wives are indolent, I can’t imagine. Motherhood is an eighteen-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job, and there are no vacations, no days off.
I would think that's a given for any father who stays at home.
me too
Most of the icky people interviewed in the article would have bad marriages under any circumstance.
I agree. I know a few men at work who marvel at what their stay at home wives do. I would hope the scenario would work in reverse as well.
The intensity of the sex life reveals whether it’s working or not. I wonder if guys have to trade that in to get an alpha wife?
Yes, that would be the assumption, but the story seems to indicate otherwise: “...her spouse, an “artist”—puttered around the house. ...Betsy thought she was the only mother in their grade supporting a stay-at-home husband—especially one who refused to polish the surfaces...”
Im willing to bet that most “alpha” women, are divorced or alone.
Sigh, another thread where a lot of readers won’t be posting their honest opinions & experiences...
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