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.