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There seems to be a problem with Wives and Significant Others that stay at home understanding the concept of equal share. It’s been my experience that men are expected to work a minimum of 8-hour days and then help out with regular chores such as cleaning the house. For me this would happen on a weekend when, well I really didn’t want to do a fucking thing but relax. Ladies you ask why, because I have already put in at least 40 hours that week, and don’t much feel like doing more. Call me lazy but that’s just the way I roll.

I’m going to try and explain something using simple math. It didn’t work when I tried to explain it to my Ex-wife, but surely one of you got past addition and subtraction while you were in grade school. First off an 8-hour day is most likely an understatement, and does not include travel time. Most of us poor bastards pull more than that or work two jobs to provide every thing that you have. Be it just getting by or having plenty, we provide it. That’s our job, we provide. Your job, if you don’t have one, is to support us in doing ours. That means CLEAN THE FUCKING HOUSE! Hell try to clean and cook, not clean or cook, or non-of the above.

Ladies please hear me and use your minds and not your emotions to respond. I don’t want to rule you or tell you what to do, but don’t you think that you should do right by your man. Why should we provide all that you enjoy and contribute little to nothing? When I work a full day, 12-16 hours in my case don’t ask me when I get home to do something that should already be done because it only takes 3 hours to do. I.E cleaning the house. Did you get that? 3 hours to clean the house. That’s the average time it takes if you stay on top of things. That doesn’t even have to be done every day. You can skip a day or two and just tidy up if needed. We have to work in general every mother fucking day, 8 hours a day, 5 or more fucking days a week. We can’t skip days here and there, and we better not get caught halfassing.

Ladies, you are your own bosses. You get up when you want, start when you want, and usually end when you want. Oh Lord forbid a trip to the Pediatrician or something throws your schedule out of whack, but hey, you can tape that soap opera episode on the VCR can’t you? It’s not like you got a Doctors appointment or something every mother fucking day, 5 or more fucking days a week. Yea, we know that the TV takes up a lot of your time. Oh, and by the way, you don’t have to travel to your job.

Don’t try to tell us that your doing laundry, this, that and the other. Well maybe you will do the laundry from time to time, but I would bet that is because you need clean cloths, and THE MACHINE DOES THEM! You don’t have to go beat wet cloths on a fucking rock so you can knock that one out. You can put them in the machine, set it, and sit that ass down to watch an episode "Non Productive Days of Our Wives." Then when your man gets home he can help you fold the shit. FUCKING AMAZING!!! It’s not like you have to do laundry every mother fucking day, 8 hours a day, 5 or more fucking days a week. But we’ve got to fold the shit when we get home from our jobs? Fuck that, you have enough cloths for a week, then do the laundry once a week. Do the shit on your Saturday or something, since you’ll be fucking off Friday.

Some of you will argue that we should help with the laundry, dishes, house cleaning and all the other shit that you gaffed off through out the week. After all we live there too. Yea that’s right Princess we do live there. We also pay for the place. We provide your food, clothing, shelter, utilities, hygiene, medical and FUCK AROUND MONEY. You have nothing to do but prepare meals, wash cloths, and write a check or two for the bills. These are things that you would do for yourselves if you lived on your own; we just took care of the job part for you. So when you make yourself a meal with food we provide, make a meal for us too. When you wash your cloths that we bought for you, using our water, electricity and soap; put a load of our shit in too please. If your not willing to do that after we provide all that we do, then yes we do ask that you unhinge your jaw like a snake and swallow our cock as if it were a hairless rat from time to time. Excuse us for expecting a little gratitude every now and then.

If you share kids, then share the duties. Hell they are only really needy until they go to school, then you got the house to yourself again. For you Super Soccer Moms who have too much on your plates, I’ll bitch about that later.

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  • MsBradford07 said on Jun 13, 2007....
    I can see that blog was an emotional one, but I do agree with you.
  • destinydiva said on Jun 30, 2007....
    I agree with you...... and I especially agree with your last comment....about kids...you share those duties......just want to clarify......??
     hey its only sticking some clothes in a machine, looking after your kids..... doing the school run...grocery shopping....ironing ..cleaning the whole house...all with kids in tow... driving ya nuts.....  it is a pretty tough job but its an enjoyable one.... and I would appreciate being able to be a full time mum and housewife........  would you appreciate it???   If you came home to a nice clean house, a wardrobe full of clean and ironed clothes.....cupboards filled with food....a meal layed out for you.....would you appreciate that your wife gave up her life ...her freedom ....her lunches with clients....drinks after work.... an hour to herself between 6am and 9pm????? to do that for you and your family??

    I wouldnt expect you to help with chores.....  thats my job.....  I agree with you.... 
    But I would expect you to appreciate it.......
    And to come home and appreciate that actually both our days have been pretty taxing..... take the kids for an hour or so so I could get the rest of the chores done without worrying that the little one has got his hands down the toilet......scrub the crayon off the wall without worrying he's scribbling on another wall at the same time.....  clear up after dinner....

    kids bath n bedtimes should be shared......  I'm impressed you said that :-)
    work as a team and you get your evenings together.....  but you both have to appreciate each other and what each other has put in to it...be it keeping the house running ...the bills in order........clothes to put on...... etc....    or going out to work and providing an income......

    Anywayz thats my rant over......  and hey Im divorcing my husband so I guess I'm not the best to argue  :-) or maybe it gives me more stance in an argument about it??  my marriage taught me how a relationship shouldn't be......   from that I've learn't how I want my next to be...


    Destiny x

  • ThePainfulTruthBFTW said on Jul 02, 2007....

    Destiny…My first thought on your response is that you don’t agree with me. If so that is your right, I just don’t see how? Did you truly read the post or just skim it and then respond off of emotion? Am I misunderstanding your response?

    You noted some house hold duties such as "hey its only sticking some clothes in a machine, looking after your kids..... doing the school run...grocery shopping....ironing ..cleaning the whole house...all with kids in tow... driving ya nuts....." My gripe was about people that do not do those things and expect the breadwinner to do them after his/her normal workload. Surly you can’t agree that is right?

    The point of the bitch was If one works 8 hours to support a home and the other does 3, the one that did only 3 has 5 more hours of work to do before he or she can start nagging for help. You can’t argue with that. Male or female, Husband or Wife, if you piss away 5 hours and your significant other put in a full 8 or more, don’t come to them to pull your slack. For me I didn’t care if shit didn’t get done. I just didn’t want to be the one to have to do it when it should already be done.

    Her is an example. I came home on a Friday night after 7pm. We were expecting guest that night. I pulled 12 hours of work that day not including travel, and pulled 16-hour workdays Monday-Thursday that week. My Ex expected me to clean the kitchen and bathroom. I looked about the house to see what had been done and found that nothing had been, but that there were three rental movies on the coffee table. I asked why the house was not already clean, and she replied that she didn’t have time to finish. I commented on the videos, and she admitted that she had gotten them and watched them that day. There was no way I was going to clean the house after a doing full days work, and she just watched movies all day.

    I see this shit all the time. These so call homemakers sleep in late, then maybe go for a walk (to keep fit) with a friend. After the walk they go to Starbucks for coffee and piss away another hour setting up a play date with their kids to waste yet another hour. This shit goes on until around 1:00pm at which time they might do something I.E. laundry till 3:00pm at which time Dr. Phill comes on to be followed by Oprah. I wish I could get up when ever the fuck I want, walk my ass around the block in hopes of getting in shape with no real effort, have a few beers with a friend, have play time with the kids, do a token piece of work to give the impression that I am not totally worthless and then watch the tube for 2 or more hours. Oh my God, what a hard life! Instead I have to…did you get that, HAVE TO get my ass up before first light. Travel 30-60 minutes to a job, and conduct 8+ hours of productive work with no slacking. After that I get to travel 30-60 minutes back home to fold laundry that should already be folded. If I do not do this on a daily basis I get my ass chewed, not only by my boss but by the little woman who would explain to me that I had better not get fired because I have a responsibility to make a living. The nerve!!!

    You asked "would you appreciate it??? If you came home to a nice clean house, a wardrobe full of clean and ironed clothes.....cupboards filled with food....a meal layed out for you.....would you appreciate that your wife gave up her life ...her freedom ....her lunches with clients....drinks after work.... an hour to herself between 6am and 9pm????? to do that for you and your family?? The answer is yes! If and when that happened I would appreciate it. The point was that that was not the case and as for the part of her giving up her life…freedom…and clients. If a woman of this caliber conducted business in the same manner that she ran a house hold she would have any clients. Why is it when a couple gets married the Wife is giving up her life and freedom? That is such bullshit. Is not the Man doing the same? Don’t play the Martyr. I’m not even going to get into the drinks after work and 1hour of self-time.

    Anyway I hope that this sheds a little more light on what I was trying to get across. I hope that this did not destroy a friendship before it even began. :-)

    TPT

  • destinydiva said on Jul 02, 2007....
    My first thought on your response is that you don’t agree with me. If so that is your right, I just don’t see how? Did you truly read MY COMMENT or just skim it and then respond off of emotion? Am I misunderstanding your response?  :-)

    (I hope that sheds some life on what I was trying to get across... I too, hope that this  doesnt destroy a friendship that could be just at the beginning )

    Destiny x

    ps~I'll consider myself well and truly told off  :-)
    pps~ i think we both jumped off on an emotional rant (my response to your post and your response to my comment)....just that we ended up unintentially being in each others firing line...??  sorry x
  • ThePainfulTruthBFTW said on Jul 02, 2007....

    Destiny…Not a problem. The post was written to get a response from a certain demographic so that I could light their asses up. It was indeed a firing line. For some reason I felt compelled to hold back (I did) when you walked into it. As for my walking into yours…I was looking for trouble in a sense and maybe at times see it where there is none. I truly did read your comment. I read, considered, reread and reconsidered. I still was not convinced that my first instinct was correct (rarely wrong). That’s why I asked (usually don’t). No need for apologies and no hard feelings!!

    TPT

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