To think the difference between the top and bottom pics could be the secret to the mil/dil divide?

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MyDarlingClementine · 28/02/2013 23:05

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2286132/Women-piling-pounds-cut-housework-study-shows.html

Started another thread on this - as the pics tickled me but I couldnt work out why.

Now I do - I think its because alot of mil/dil probs come because we have changed so much in our roles - ( women) since them and us - and they see sons coming home to pic 1 which could be me and they get upset?

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Velve · 01/03/2013 18:32

I do newshoots. Love her to bits. She's batty.

Cotapaxi · 01/03/2013 18:39

That 13 hours includes cooking and that kind of thing so probably do more than you think.

Pixel · 01/03/2013 18:58

Hmm, in the 50s my MIL was having lots of dcs by different men and then abandoning them to the care system/various family members. I'm pretty sure she'd be more like pic one! (whereas I, of course, look more like pic two ). I do in fact have a tablecloth in use at the moment , It's just a shame it's still there from Christmas when I put it over the coffee table to hide all the magazines/catalogues/dust underneath it when we had visitors!