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July 9, 2008
By Gienie assink
Mary was married to a male chauvinist. They both worked full time, but he never helped out with chores around the house. “That”, he declared, “was woman’s work”.
One evening Mary arrived home from work to find the children bathed, a load of wash in the washing machine and another in the dryer, dinner on the stove, and a beautifully set table, complete with flowers.
She was astonished, and she immediately wanted to know what was going on. It turned out that Charley, her husband, had read a magazine article that suggested working wives would be more romantically inclined if they weren’t so tired from having to do all the housework in addition to holding down a full-time job.
The next day, she couldn’t wait to tell her friends in the office. “How did it work out?” they asked.
“Well, it was a great dinner,” Mary said. “Charley even cleaned up, helped the kids with their homework, folded the laundry and put everything away.”
“But what about afterward?” her friends wanted to know. “Oh that, well….that didn’t work out so well,” Mary said. “Charley was just too tired.”
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Charley must have been listening to Dr. Laur(en). Unfortunately, they should have been listenting to each other…and talking about splitting the chores at home as well as they split the work outside the home and it might improve the “communication” all the way around. But, what do I know, I’m just an old mom.