I don't want to work.
I don't contribute via paid employment, but I contribute enormously to my family.
I don't see myself working for the rest of adulthood.
Again, I absolutely work, I just don't think only paid work counts as work.
I prefer someone else to pay my bills and cover my lifestyle expenses.
I prefer getting all the domestic work done for me, and my family of 5, whilst my husband earns the money to pay for him, and his family of 5.
My husband doesn't want to trouble himself with housework.
My husband doesn't have the time to do the housework, and the whole point of me being a housewife is to take on the bulk of domestic load, so in the evenings and weekends, the paid work is done, the unpaid work is done, and DH and I get quality time together, or with the DC.
He would much prefer having a woman at home doing it all and he likes coming home to his dinner on the table.
He doesn't have the time to do the cooking! I mean he probably would protest if I hired a chef when I'm at home all day and enjoy cooking, but I'll put that to him, seeing as I apparently shouldn't be feeding my own family in the name of the sisterhood.
He funds my lifestyle in exchange for not having to lift a finger around the house
He pays for the house that he, his wife and his three children live in. Arsehole he is. And does equal childcare at the weekends, all the car stuff (we have 3 and one is always broken, all the garden stuff, maintenance around the house. Plus a full week of paid employment.
Rather than "I'm a housewife because that way when hubby comes home he doesn't have the stress of a messy home.
Yes, I do only clean and run the house to ensure my husband isn't stressed. It's definitely not because I enjoy it, take pride in my own home, and choose not to do paid employment.
But he definitely doesn't fund my lifestyle at all.
It's hard to see anything through the bitterness. "Fund". Whatever do you sound like. I took DNan for a tea and a cake earlier, which I paid for. How weird and trying to over project would I have to be, to say I "fund" my DNans lunch. The word is pay. DH pays for our home and the 5 of us in it.
"I'm not like the other women on the hamster wheel." (which rests on the idea that it's super stressful for a poor working man to do such domestic tasks. He needs a woman to do all the domestic load so he can put his feet up by the fire after a busy day being a big important man, in a way that working women are definitely not big and important).
This doesn't even make sense. You think that because someone is happy being a housewife, it's clearly a dig at those who work, but only women. And somehow men are big and important but also lazy. And if anyone doesn't do the housework, it's because they're too special, not because they don't have the time. You're projecting your own issues on to other people who simply aren't saying those things.
We aren't in the 50s anymore. Sorry, but housewives now are not like the women of 70yrs ago.