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How do those of you with domestically lazy husbands still find them attractive?

55 replies

EightChalk · 01/07/2022 13:11

This is something that comes up day in, day out on here and in many other female-centric communities: women posting for advice about their relationships with men who do not do their fair share of childcare, cleaning, cooking and other domestic drudgery (or who think that they do because they do occasional performance cookery that leaves the woman washing up every pan in the kitchen, or they do the garden maintenance twice a year and consider that equivalent to keeping the house clean every single day, or they do the DIY - grudgingly and weeks after it's needed in many cases - and similarly consider these occasional tasks equivalent to the regular upkeep of a home).

Often both partners work, but the drudgery still defaults to the woman (look up the statistics on this; it's horrifying). These husbands/partners often also have non-negotiable hobbies that take up loads of time. They consider looking after the children by themselves a favour to their female partner. We've all read about these setups dozens of times.

If you are in one of these unbalanced relationships, how can you look at him and think "yes, that's the man for me"? How can you have an intimate relationship with someone who shows such a lack of respect?

The worst is when these men dare to accuse their exhausted, overworked, underappreciated female partners of not having sex with them often enough. How can they think they are sexually attractive? How do look at themselves as decent people when they treat their partners like that?

This isn't a wide-eyed "but I don't understand" post - I genuinely don't understand. How does the attraction not just dry up when they treat you like a mother-maid combination?

OP posts:
MiniMoosey · 01/07/2022 19:11

We are both equally useless domestically so it balances out

KittyKittyKat · 01/07/2022 20:30

One of my best friends is married to a good looking guy who does precisely nothing with their DC or around the house. He works and he cycles. She hasn’t worked for the past 12 years though, so she’s happy to pick up all the slack (with a daily cleaner Mon-Fri 😂). He buys her nice presents and they have a lot of (from her descriptions) amazing sex.

So that’s the dynamic. They’ve found a balance that works for them. It wouldn’t work for me. He’s a lazy toad around their house!!

Natty13 · 01/07/2022 21:18

They either don't care that he is useless or the answer is that they don't find him attractive.

There was a thread recently about last time you had mind blowing sex or along those lines and all the women saying they never had, or never had with their current DH/DP it was the ones who are also usually posting that they are with men who offer negligible contribution to the household/family life.

3monkeybars · 02/07/2022 00:39

When I moved in with my (domestically useless) now dh we had a couple of weeks of come to Jesus conversations where I explained to him that picking up after him makes me feel like his mother, and I sure as hell don't want to have sex with someone I'm parenting. Him being able to link my attractedness to him with the amount of equality around the house made him step up - he's better but still not great, so we agreed he'd organize and pay for a cleaner to pick up the rest of his slack. I no longer have the running of the whole house on me, I'm attracted to him, it works for us

Thisisworsethananticpated · 02/07/2022 07:07

Well they don’t
i Didn’t
and we split
and now I do 1000%
and have a FWB

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