Happiness is being a homemaker!

[I Love Cunt]

I love to fullfill my wifely duties of doing the laundry, folding the clothes, and making dinner every night. I do it out of love, not obligation. He is the king of the house, and he takes care of me. I am so lucky!

I don't bore him with inane conversation about my day, but I listen to him intently about his.

He is the luckiest man on earth to have a wife such as me.

 

[Enkephalen]

Been there, done that, waxed the floor and vacuumed the house. It's all flowers and sunsets until you find you cry for no reason and can't stop. Then you immerse yourself in romance novels and crafts, then weep for something you cannot voice. The insanity is tolerable, the lie is not.

 

[Sadistic Bastard]

It's all balance.

If you are a homemaker as a full time "job", it's a job you can never leave.

But if you have hobbies, friends, interests, or even a part-time job Outside of the home, then being a homemaker can be a balanced profession.

And having a spouse that takes on some chores so that one has a "break" from their job on a regular basis also adds balance.

For example: Homemaker/Pleasure slave.

 

[Enkephalen]

Yes, that could happen. . .but mostly the wives were unbearably depressed, drank, did drugs, escaped through daily shopping (you were allowed credit cards but never any cash), some had "housewife syndrome". *shudder* It was very real and debilitating. Maybe times have changed. . .maybe not.

 

[Hambil]

My mother was a housewife, and wonderfully happy. To this day she enjoys cooking for us whenever we are home, but since she's 81 we try to get her to sit down and let us do the work.

I think it can be very rewarding, if it is what you want. The problem is society of the last couple decades has made women feel they are less for being one. It's an overreaction to a time when women where expected to be one.

Hopefully society will find balance again, and women who choose to be a housewife will be able to do so with love and pride and respect. Men who choose to be house husbands, also. Given the chance, I think I'd do it.

 

[Enkephalen]

Don't get me wrong, earlier in my housewife daze, I enjoyed it. But as time wore on, it was the male attitude that ruined it for me. You were viewed by the husband, and most men in general, as "less than", as stupid without a "real job". You were shunted aside in serious conversations as being too empty headed to have an opinion. With this attitude from men, the women were treated like household servants with little real appreciation. In that climate, it was no wonder the women were miserable.

Knowing how hard housewives worked, that their work literally was never done, that they were not only not appreciated for what they could do, but were looked down upon by the "professional woman" in most media, it was not surprising that we were a depressed class. I don't know if the situation has improved any. So, I can only speak to what I experienced and what I observed in the social class I had been a member. As I said, perhaps times have changed, perhaps not.

 

[Gonad]

I have always wanted a househusband.

 

[StarMan™]

My mother was a housewife, and wonderfully happy. To this day she enjoys cooking for us whenever we are home, but since she's 81 we try to get her to sit down and let us do the work.

I think it can be very rewarding, if it is what you want. The problem is society of the last couple decades has made women feel they are less for being one. It's an overreaction to a time when women where expected to be one.

Hopefully society will find balance again, and women who choose to be a housewife will be able to do so with love and pride and respect. Men who choose to be house husbands, also. Given the chance, I think I'd do it.

I suspect your mother is dead inside, Hambil. Her graceful spirit was destroyed before YOU graced this earth.

A shame...

 

[Bladev1]

I have always wanted a househusband.

I've been one and it sucks.

 

[Gonad]

Why did it suck?