Some serious gender stereotyping going on here.http://www.scarymommy.com/emma-you-shouldve-asked-mental-load/?utm_source=FBOnsite …
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I don't think its the woman's job to be household manager or the man's to be managed and then blamed for not being the household manager.
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I think most couples work this out between them. I am not an organised person. If everything depended on me, we'd be screwed, quite frankly.
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Well, no. I've only forgotten to feed the child a couple of times & it was old enough to remind me, so it's all good.
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I think with heterosexual couples, if one of them is more likely to want everything 'just so', it's more often the woman.
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And if so, there's probably not much point in demanding your partner to be the same. Dave nags me about the kitchen cupboards now & then.
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But he mostly now just accepts that these things don't matter to me & organises them himself whilst grumbling under his breath.
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When I look at my own mom, everything has to be perfectly clean, at the right time... Even when there's no one else coming in the house.
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She says "it HAS to be done", as if, if we don't, the house will be a wreck... But the only person that little speck of dust on the table
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annoyed was her. She says she does everything, even though she makes us do just as much as her. And it's all in her own interest.
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It's probably related to their sensitivity to disorder, which means not all/only mothers are like that, men can be sensitive to it as well.
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But although it's not always the case, it's still the most frequent case. And as someone having to live with an over-orderly mother, this
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article is shit (mostly because it's one sided and doesn't "perfectly explain the gender 'war").
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It's genuinely a big issue in my house that neither of us are actually any good at housework...
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