To think most men wouldn’t survive a year living the life of an average woman?

This doesn’t surprise me- I’ve yet to come across a poster on here who has one good word to say about their own mother. I hope their own children return the favour!

How wonderful to hear someone taking pride in the quality of the food they make, it’s a skill to be proud of for sure. Lucky family and friends! You are giving much joy to their day!

Nor is having a job. It’s just a job, you are just a number, your boss would replace you tomorrow without a backwards glance if it suited them. Nobody really cares about anyone’s job, or is interested in hearing them bore on about it. How sad if your whole identity as a human being revolved around a job title which can be removed.

I love not having a boss telling me what to do, I do exactly what I like, the freedom is utterly intoxicating! That’s what the government are keen to prevent people realising 😜

I agree. My ex husband had the emotional capacity of a teaspoon.

He once lost his temper and shouted at the oven because he hadn’t switched it on.

His football team lost? Misery, all weekend.

Bit of a cold? Help me I’m dying.

It rained when we were at a festival. He’d refused to take wellies and was then very angry at.. weather. I was quite happy in my Hunters sploshing about because I’d actually considered that rain exists.

Women do tend to be more resilient and better able to cope with what are really just normal challenges.

It was meant to be light hearted.

I don’t have mood swings. I’m extremely mentally resilient and I’m good natured and easy going and take any setbacks on the chin. My male DP has regular sulks and the day is sometimes ruined if things don’t go his way. If something goes wrong, my instinct is to think “okay how can we fix it and make the best of it”. His is to go off in a huff. He also accuses me of being too negative sometimes because I will plan for what happens if things don’t work out. This apparently stresses him out. Whereas he will be convinced everything will be great and then when it’s not, almighty sulk and then we do what I had planned for all along. So I must say I completely disagree with your description of male and female moods.

I agree. My ex husband had the emotional capacity of a teaspoon.

He once lost his temper and shouted at the oven because he hadn’t switched it on.

His football team lost? Misery, all weekend.

Bit of a cold? Help me I’m dying.

It rained when we were at a festival. He’d refused to take wellies and was then very angry at.. weather. I was quite happy in my Hunters sploshing about because I’d actually considered that rain exists.

Women do tend to be more resilient and better able to cope with what are really just normal challenges.

It probably says more about you tbh.

Ffs, try being a man living with a woman. The mood swings are the real killer. I don't think any woman could live being a man (living with a woman), it's really hard, but we suck it up and never ever learn the right time to say the right things.

The daily grind of sexism, safety worries, juggling expectations, emotional labour… Most men have no idea. AIBU to think they’d crumble under the load if they had to swap lives with us for a year?

I don’t have mood swings. I’m extremely mentally resilient and I’m good natured and easy going and take any setbacks on the chin. My male DP has regular sulks and the day is sometimes ruined if things don’t go his way. If something goes wrong, my instinct is to think “okay how can we fix it and make the best of it”. His is to go off in a huff. He also accuses me of being too negative sometimes because I will plan for what happens if things don’t work out. This apparently stresses him out. Whereas he will be convinced everything will be great and then when it’s not, almighty sulk and then we do what I had planned for all along. So I must say I completely disagree with your description of male and female moods.

Ffs, try being a man living with a woman. The mood swings are the real killer. I don't think any woman could live being a man (living with a woman), it's really hard, but we suck it up and never ever learn the right time to say the right things.

I an extremely sorry for your loss 💐

My mum was wonderful. But she was financially abused by her partner who ended up killing her so forgive me if I’ll NEVER be financially dependent on any man and want to earn enough money to give myself options should I need them.

Housewife/husband/homemaker has always been a category on official applications and paperwork, and entails many tasks, not just one…grow up!

Housewife/husband/homemaker has always been a category on official applications and paperwork, and entails many tasks, not just one…grow up!

Ha nor do committed professionals- perhaps that explains the ‘gender pay gap’- I doubt the highest paid and most senior men waste hours on here 😂

Here’s a thought- quit Mumsnet instead of blaming housewives for ‘letting the side down’ 😜

Housewife/husband/homemaker has always been a category on official applications and paperwork, and entails many tasks, not just one…grow up!

Not just a barista, but a professional barista. Don't sell him short.

I had to apply a plaster to my DD at the weekend and I regularly handle medications. You can now refer to me as Dr Howard Moon.

I see you’ve avoided actually responding to the point again and instead have decided to play the victim completely oblivious to the disgusting comments you’ve made towards working mothers on this and other threads.

You are receiving horrible comments because you are being horrible.
The vast majority of people don’t care that you’re a SAHM. They respect your choice and don’t think twice about it.
But your bizarre need for the world to acknowledge you as ‘the greatest mum that ever lived’ is what is causing people to comment, it’s your superior attitude not your choice to be a SAHM.

If you had just commented that you have chosen to be a SAHM but you fully respect the choices other women have made, nobody would have commented. It’s the fact you call working mothers bad parents (both directly and indirectly) and spend so much time trying to prove how you’re better than us all.
Your comments about removing subsidised childcare and the use of childcare are also pretty inflammatory so are of course going to illicit a reaction.

Anyway, I suspect that your either a troll or you enjoy the drama cos nobody who is this dedicated to their family spends days glued to their phone arguing with strangers.