She Went Out To Lunch With Her Friends And Ruined It After She Told A Stay-At-Home Mom She Just Wants An Excuse To Be Lazy
A lot of women have different opinions on what they should be doing after getting married and having children.
Some are content with becoming stay-at-home moms who do most of the childcare and housework while their spouse works, while others believe they should be able to continue working while splitting up household duties evenly with their spouses.
Whichever lifestyle you believe in is totally up to you, but maybe you shouldn’t judge how other women choose to live.
One woman recently upset her friend who is a stay-at-home mom like her but believes her husband should take on more of their household chores.
She’s a busy stay-at-home mom with five children. Two of her kids are too young to be in school, and on top of everything, she helps take care of her husband’s grandmother. Meanwhile, her husband works full-time.
Although very busy, she still manages to set aside a few hours each day to clean the house and check off a list of chores. Therefore, her husband hardly has to do any household duties since he works full-time.
She has a friend group that consists of four other moms. One of them is a stay-at-home mom like her, while the other three still work.
Recently, while they were all out at lunch, one of the moms who works full-time alongside her husband mentioned she had to hire a housekeeper to clean her house every other week because neither she nor her husband has time to do any chores.
“The other stay-at-home mom was agreeing with her about finding it difficult to keep the house clean when her husband does only a few chores inside the house,” she said.
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“She told us her husband’s main jobs are cooking dinner, cleaning the bathrooms, and looking after the yard. In my opinion, that’s a more than fair distribution of chores, considering her husband works full-time. They have one child and no pets.”
She butted in and told this mom that despite her complaints, her system with her husband sounded pretty fair. Then, she explained that since her husband works full-time, he only cooks on the weekends for fun and doesn’t have to do any household chores.
Then, she told her friend that since her husband works to provide for their family, she considers it “her job” to get all the cooking and cleaning done.
“This isn’t gender-related, in my opinion,” she explained.
“If we both worked, I would agree about splitting chores equally. Or, if I worked and he didn’t, I would be expecting him to do the majority of the housework.”
The other stay-at-home mom disagreed with her and said she believed her husband should be doing more and that no matter what, household chores should be divided evenly.
“I told her that I think she’s being ungrateful to her husband who allows her to be a stay-at-home mom, even now [that] their child is older,” she recalled.
“I asked her what she does all day [and] if she expects him to do half the chores and that she just wants an excuse to be lazy. In the end, lunch was ruined [and] she called me anti-feminist.”
Two of her friends sided with the other stay-at-home mom and told her she was wrong for judging her. However, she feels like she was ‘pointing out the obvious.’
Was she wrong to judge her friend like that?
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