Women - know your limits

Thank your husband??!! Thank him for what, looking after HIS children.........

I am about to go away for a weekend and if dp is lucky I will leave stuff in the freezer and say 'There is stuff in the freezer', beyond that it is up to him

Article is 1950s bullshit, but most of the comments below, from men and women, seem to be fair enough. There are plenty of men saying they'd be horrified if their wife thought so little of their abilities that she needed to prepare everything before going away.

I felt quite encouraged!

Ah yes I can always tell when DH has dressed them. Fortunately if they are going anywhere they should look presentable dd1 steps in and tells Dh what dd2 should wear and what trousers/skirts go with which tops.

She also has to remind to feed the pets occassionally. He would do it of his own accord, just not neccessarily at the right time. Dd1 is very particular about how they should be cared for and always reminds him if he is late for feeds/walks.

I didn't get as far as a description of the "carnage"

Well I still remember the time I had to go into hospital at short notice. DH brought DS1, aged 2, in to see me in the shorts I'd bought for next summer, which came to his ankles, and a pair of red wellies.

I've rarely laughed that hard, but the old lady next to me adored him.

I take your point Cornsilk.

(where has your Halloween name gone btw? it was one of the best.)

doesn't sound like carnage to me tbh. So what if her husband took the kids out for lunch instead of eating her lasagne or didn't clean out the lunchboxes. Getting their knickers in a twist for nothing I reckon.

Er, if I cam home to that after a weekend away I would walk out again and refuse to come home until it was fixed. Who the hell wrote that? She has to be 80 and/or a man surely?

DH is not great at being home with the kids because he is not used to it. He finds it stressful and struggles to manage everything at once. But he can manage to get them dressed, bathed and wash any uniform they might need.

I wouldn't expect the house to be be perfect, or indeed even in the same state I left it in, but I know he would at least try to organise everything.

oh that is utterly hilarious! I love the way she describes a scene of complete carnage and incompetence and then advises 'Do remember to thank your husband.'

I just got too angry to read to the end.

When I read articles like that, and the comments from some of the wanky men underneath, I am glad I'm a single parent.

Would rather know the whole burden falls on me, than have any illusions that being loved and cherished, means being treated as a skivvy.

My friend at uni used to do this, because her husband refused to do any housework because "it was beneath his dignity".

'Who in their right mind gets the clothes ready for the kids before they go away?'

I tried doing that when I weekly commuted and was away from home several days a week: dh, while highly domestic, was utterly clueless re dcs clothes - he would attempt to wrestle dd into her baby brother's top and complain it was too small for her, and that kind of thing. Completely failed though as he just ignored the outfits I got ready.

will read link now.

madness!!!

my mum would have done exactly the same. silly woman.

Link here

If a woman does all that before she goes away then she must need her headtesting. Who in their right mind gets the clothes ready for the kids before they go away?

I dont understand women with this kind of mentality at all. I regularly go on trips with the girls either for weekends/nights away about once a month. I have never left any food or organised anything for my husband and he would think I had gone mental if I had.