Posted on 01/24/2019 6:18:55 PM PST by oldasrocks
My wife leaves every year for a month or two to visit family overseas. I feel she should hire someone to do her job while she is not here. You know cook, clean, laundry, cuddle, scoop out the chicken house,give the dogs a bath, the important stuff.
Why should I have to do all my work and hers too just because she goes on vacation for a month or more? What are your feelings about this?
Women mourn, men replace.
Women mourn, men replace.
There are so many nuances to the ability to adjust. I’ve been married to one lady for 46 years. We own animals so we vacation (fishing trip, grand kid visit, etc) ocasionly separately. A temporary issue, loss of a spouse is a totally different situation, a terrible situation. I love truly quiet times, but not in a permeant sense. Coping is a personal thing, we all have it to do.
I raised 2 tiny kids while my hubby worked full time and went to uni to get a PhD .
He also goes abroad to visit his beloved family. Sometimes takes our kids as I have to stay behond to take care of my elderly fam.
Is what it is.
It’s life.
I feel strongly about this one because when I got married, I basically had to teach my wife how to cook. During my bachelor years, I developed some serious kitchen skills. Working in a restaurant for a couple of years helped as well.
I also kept a very clean and tidy apartment. I didn't stress that part with my wife quite as much.
Bottom line, every man should know how to cook and clean for himself. The image of a "helpless man" sitting hangdog on the couch in his underwear because the wife (or mother) isn't around to care for him annoys me. Ain't nothing manly about that.
bunch of strangers passing judgement on your entire life based on 20 or 30 likely semi-serious words in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
I kind of agree with this. My husband unit goes away a couple of times per year to help out his mom. I don’t like being without him, but I know it’s important.
Real Vacations? We spend those at home with our critters, sleeping late, cooking interesting stuff, and doing Whatever We Want :-)
wait. She raised your kids and critters and you are complaining you might have to vacuum while she’s gone? Dude - go buy some tv dinners and a teddy bear and get started on that honey-do list. Some would give their eye teeth to have inlaws more than 5,000 miles away. Count your blessings.
True. Should have gotten this comment in, in the #2 slot.
LOL! My husband said, “Man Up! Do the Work!”
:-)
This is one strange thread.
had the same thought. couldn’t figure out a way to un-countdown time. posted anyway.
Agreed. Self reliance is a learned skill. I do 99% of the cooking in our household, partly because I enjoy the process and partly because I’m the better cook and if I’m going to enjoy eating a meal, I’m going to need to cook it. I also do my own laundry and know how to clean house. Something I picked up along the way growing up in a proper nuclear family of six.
It would probably minimize your pain to do it sooner rather than later.
And it is his money, not hers. Its probably the only reason he has money left.
Facts are facts. The subject is too serious. We need a vanity thread about a problem pet aardvark.
Man......up
My guess is shes cheating on you big time. Get the divorce papers rolling.
My wife is alive and very well.
It’s after a typical week of people, my truly introverted nature goes into high gear.
Last week, I took some of my newly increased vacation time to work for myself. I even accomplished most of the plan.
My Willys jeep runs again and I shuffled parts to and from powder coating. While getting the Willys working, I played a lot of OTR Broadway Is My Beat in the garage.
Why call it baby sitting?
She should beat you with her washboard for posting this.
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