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Bloody wifework

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Badhairday77 · 17/09/2018 16:57

Ok I do work part time. Average 35 hours a month. As a result I do virtually all the childcare, housework, laundry, ferrying kids around, medical and dental appointments etc etc for our 3 dds. Fair enough as youngest dds are now at school full time.
However it is annoying that I am also expected to be the one to send the thank you etc for dh's family. If my family send something I always reply but expect dh to deal with his family. He doesn't and I than get in-laws ringing me to find out if we received it! The undercurrent is of that it is my job to do it.
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GreatDuckCookery6211 · 19/09/2018 10:09

If the H wasn't an arse she wouldn't.

timeisnotaline · 19/09/2018 14:29

The whole point of having a SAHM in a household is not only to perform cleaning and catering duties, but also generally to make the like of the working parent easier by doing anything possible to help. This would include writing thank you letters on their behalf.
Jesus fucking Christ. Do you wash their bottom and trim their toenails after ironing their shirt and making their breakfast? Let’s politelh assume you’re female. Don’t you want to be in a partnership with a competent adult? If something happened to me my dp can clean and cook and care for our children, I wouldn’t have children with him otherwise. Their lives are facilitated enough by not having to fit work around the nursery run personally.

RomanyRoots · 19/09/2018 16:18

The whole point of having a SAHM in a household is not only to perform cleaning and catering duties, but also generally to make the like of the working parent easier by doing anything possible to help. This would include writing thank you letters on their behalf

Ha Ha, the clues in the title SAHM, the word mum should tell you what the role is. Grin
The man should come home and do 50% of whatever needs doing, like any normal person.

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