How Would You Describe Your Marriage/Relationship?
We consider ourselves to be progressive I guess. I'm a SAHM, but if I want to work, he supports that. I'm going to be going to school for nursing ASAP. He works, I handle the finances. We both do our fair share of housework. In our home, there are no gender roles or gender specified housework. We consider ourselves to both be the head of household. Any decisions that need to be made are done with discussion and compromise.
How is it in yours?
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Were about the same as you we get along great i'm a SAHM as of now we just moved to another state i'm going job hunting tomorrow he's fine with that and just last night he did some cleaning for me cleaned the kitchen SPOTLESS i was sooo happy and made me breakfast yesterday he's off sat and sundays i make breakfast and supper for him through out the week we basically help each other out to make life easier on both of us i love him so so much been married since i was 17 and he was 19 in the army i think it brought us closer together and no i wasn't pregnant or thinking of kids then our only daughter was born a after our one year anniversary about 6 months later i would say
Our marriage is different. Very different from most, but it works for us, and thats all that matters to us. We are still together against all odds.
I do everything but work and he works and does nothing else. That us in a sentence LOL I cook and clean, take care of our son, take care of the bills, take care of my husband. He goes to work and makes the money, then he gets drunk and goes to sleep. The end.
We are definitely unorthodox compared with traditional norms. We really dont have a mold. If the traditional household with its gender roles could be analogized as being concrete, our household would be liquid.
I have had 4 pregnancies. I have only 1 living child, and he lives far away from me. I have had 2 miscarriages and a baby girl who died of SIDS at 16 days old. It would be entirely too easy for me to be angry with the world, angry with myself, angry with God---whatever God may be. Sometimes I do wonder if there is such a thing as "karma", and what I must have done to disrupt the ebb and flow. Sometimes I do wonder why God seems like a cruel child holding a magnifying glass over an ant hill. Then I stop and realize "it is what it is", and my children must have a bigger purpose in this universe than to pet my emotions with their physical presence.
---Heidi A. Durst Barbusi
WE're just us! He works full time, I have no interest to work, we both believe that kids deserve one parent at home with them to raise them, not daycare.
I am trying to figure out how to get where I want to do to get to my career goal of being a lactation consultant, he supports me, but I keep getting doors slammed in my face!
I do all the house work because it just makes sense to me. I am home all day, housework takes maybe an hour, I would rahter him come home and spend quality time with us instead of coming home to do more work and not have any time with us!
Right now shaky. We had lots of problems and split over the summer and we are going to counseling and working on things. But, honestly the split was the best thing that could have happened. We now know what we want from ourselves and each other. I WANT to keep being a SAHM/housewife.
We DO have gender roles. He takes out the garbage, mows, shovels snow etc. I take care of the kids, house etc while he works. He only helps if I am too far behind or I am sick and I like it that way.
Once the kids are in school I think I want to own my own bookshop :)
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on Mar. 21, 2010 at 1:57 PM