[JamesP81]

The problem is that you then have to hire someone to take care of the house and someone to cook.

Unless you are planing to move into a motel and order pizza every night.

Unless you are talking someone with a $50,000 a year job in a low COLA area it is actually cheaper and less stressful to have one person stay at home to take care of all the things that are required for civilized life.

Split the housework 50/50. This is also part of pulling one's own weight.

[metmom]

Split the housework 50/50. This is also part of pulling one's own weight.

It's nice in theory but I have no problem with traditional gender roles.

Mr. mm works and brings home the paycheck we live on. He fixes things around the house that I can't.

I work part time to afford some of the extras, but the lion's share of the housework is MY responsibility.

I always figured that it was only fair and reasonable that if he was out working earning the pay, my *job* as it were, was taking care of the house and making sure that ran as smoothly as possible, including laundry, shopping, cooking, cleaning, gardening, etc.

I worked full time before i got married and lived at home. My mom always had dinner ready for when my Dad got home, which was the same time I did, and I well remember how much I appreciated being able to sit down to a good meal when I got home, tired from working all day.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Except that you don't.

And you end up eating out a great deal. And you either have to hire someone to take care of the house and yard or spend what time you are not working and commuting to take care of it.

And then there is the money you spend for clothing and the expense of a the second commute.

You actually save money by having one person at home doing all the things that make a house a home.