To want a wife *Light hearted*

[YorkshireIndie]

Just musing today that what I need in my life is a wife. Someone to organise my life, sort out presents and go to the post office, someone to sort out the house and clean it (in the process of hiring a cleaner) and someone to just run my life so I don't have to (or have the same level of comfort as my husband does).

Does anyone else feel the same?

Well this woman felt so strongly that she wrote a book about it, but she thought half a wife would be enough.

Perhaps she would be open to a wife share with you?

I don’t do any of those things for DH so he probably wants a ‘real’ wife!

Happily take half a wife. At least that would make the mental load easier

I've said this! Me and DH both working FT but I'm the one that's always overloaded because I have to do anything to do with the kids or the house. Even a cleaner is only there a day a week, so doesn't help every day.

You just need a competent husband

I’m single parent and I’ve always said i want a wife next time, not a husband! Totally up for even a quarter of one. Would be bliss!

Why do you do all this stuff for them?! It wouldn’t occur to me to do these things for DH, as he’s a competent adult! He wouldn’t expect me to either.

or just marry a man, not a boy.

Me and DH both working FT but I'm the one that's always overloaded because I have to do anything to do with the kids or the house

Why? Does his penis stop him being able to feed the children or run the hoover around?

I’m a wife but I don’t do any of those things!

Strange thing to wonder but I have always wondered if same sex relationships (specifically female) clash domestically or are a match made in heaven compared with the average m/f relationship (when it comes to the practicalities of living together)?! I honestly think my mum, now divorced, who has been married to two awful men, would actually choose a woman to live with now if she had to!!

My DSis is gay and has a partner, and she always says thank god she doesn't have a man as a partner.
She has never had to tell her partner what to wear, to tidy up, to cook, to sort shopping, or go to post office, or buy presents for her family...
I'm a bit jealous,lol. Although my DH does try to contribute to all areas., he is of the branch that is happy to do anything, as long as you tell him what needs to be done or write a list.
He is a competent, capable, successful business man in all other areas of his life. But insists he needs a list/to be told what needs done. He will head off and do it all no problems or grumbling, but I hate being the one who has to think of everything. The mental load.

She has never had to tell her partner what to wear, to tidy up, to cook, to sort shopping, or go to post office, or buy presents for her family...

Neither have I, and I’m married to a man! Or maybe he’s a woman in disguise...

She has never had to tell her partner what to wear, to tidy up, to cook, to sort shopping, or go to post office, or buy presents for her family...

I'm pretty sure DH is male, we both work FT, and I have never had to do any of this. He does all of the cooking and food shopping, he is actually currently wrapping some very belated Christmas presents for friends overseas, and because I am going to the US for a week for work tonight and our childminder is off, he will be looking after DS until school I get home. And why would I tell him what to wear?

I wouldn't be in a relationship with a person of either sex who behaved like a dependent child, or whose penis was so huge that when erect it prevented him from seeing dirt or piles of laundry.

I mean, I get that this is light-hearted, but actually the attitudes underlying some of the responses are depressing in going along uncritically with the concept of 'wifework', and accepting that all these go-getting career professionals who run companies and steer policies are somehow incapable of putting on a load of laundry or remembering birthday presents.

I clearly need to trade my wife in as she's obviously broken. She does none of these things for me!

(and contrary to seemingly common male belief I haven't died. Because I'm an adult)

I’m a SAHM and don’t do all that stuff for my DH. If you’re both working full time what possible reason is there for the woman to pick up more of the running of the household?