This is where some men get funny. We’re are talking about DAILY things.
Hubby and wife: Working FT Mon-Fri
-Multiple meals need to be cooked Mon-Fri
-Kids need to be fed, bathed put to bed
Mon-Fi
-Kids need to be dropped off/picked up
from daycare Mon-Fri
-House needs to be tidied up after kids
eat/play Mon-Fri
Sooooooo
Just daily shyt through the M-F workweek when people have a family.
If you work 40hrs a week and your wife works 40hrs a week. What exactly is going to happen? You’re going to come home and watch tv/relax every week night when you get home and let your wife do EVERYTHING I outlined above EVERY MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
Do you clean the gutters every week

Do you mow everyday

You lifting heavy branches every morning before work
We are taking about DAILY HOUSEHOLD LIFE
Notice I didn’t even say anything about laundry or dishes, or the trash and you’re skipping to traditionally male chores that literally not done daily or sometimes even weekly
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“Cause what I mean is, if you were living by yourself, you would have to cook and clean and do minor labor shyt for yourself, since no one else is there.”
Uh, and when you were a single man you were paying rent for one or living with a roommate. So now that you have a wife and two kids paying the mortgage for a house for 4 ppl ain’t nothing and I shouldn’t think it’s a big deal, right?
You got it!
See, this is part of the issue. Men downplay women’s work, but expect us to understand why what you contribute is so important.
Yea. I cook and clean for ONE PERSON.
Cooking and cleaning up after 2 people, let alone a FAMILY is HARD.
Just like you paying rent for yourself (or splitting with a roomie) is WAY EASIER than having to shoulder a mortgage for a 5 bedroom house in a good neighborhood including utilities, insurance, maintenance and upkeep is HARD.
Which is why you have the ability to take care of ALL FINANCES a smart woman shuts her mouth, shows appreciation and takes care of all household duties.
HOWEVER, if you aren’t Top G, all expenses paid for your lady, you need to get in the kitchen a couple nights a week while she’s driving from work to the daycare to pick up the kids YOU impregnated with although YOU didn’t have the money to keep her in the house all day so she could focus on the household duties and have the kids all set before you got home from work.
THAT is the trade off and what separates a boss who commands that ultimate level of respect from a man who can’t provide on that level.
AGAIN- no one is saying a woman shouldn’t respect a man who can’t fully provide, just like a woman shouldn’t be disrespected because she wasn’t lucky enough to be born with the perfect button nose and natural tiny waist/phat ass.
The point is if you have a woman you love who is in the workforce just like you, you need to help out with the daily tasks that keep the household running.
That is the literal trade off.
If you can afford a stay at home wife, you’re supposed to pick a woman who comes from a traditional family who knows how to run a household and will have things organized and perfect when you return home from work.
In the old days when a man came home and his drink was poured, paper was folded and waiting for him with his slippers, kids were done with homework and helping mom set the table for dinner by 530/6 when dad comes home?
How the hell do you think all that happened before dad got home? Because mom was home ALL DAY picking kids up from school/practice, prepping dinner, helping with homework, tidying the house and making things presentable for dad when he walked in the door.
See, a lot of times the only men who understand and appreciate “woman’s work” are the men who actually grew up in traditional homes with stay at home moms so they actually lived this shyt and understand it without me typing it out.
They grew up seeing their moms do all this day in and day out while dad was at work, so they understand the time, energy and sacrifice that comes with it so they work to put themselves in a position to afford a stay at home wife OR understand that they gotta help out around the house if they have a wife who is working full time like them because there isn’t enough time in the day to do everything.
So it’s cool. The ones who get it get it.
I guess it’s like the guys who say they can’t date women who didn’t have dads. If you didn’t grow up with a certain dynamic you won’t get it.