truedadconfessions makes me sad:
Sorry sweetie, but being a SAHM DOES make you my slave. Just because you half-assed at a job while you were waiting for a naive sucker like me to put a ring on your finger does NOT mean you know what I’m going through at work. I’m a white male, so I don’t have any “special interests” groups eagerly waiting to jump in on my behalf if I get fired, so unlike YOU, I actually have to DO WORK to keep my job. And as the sole bacon-provider for this family, I make the money that pays for EVERYTHING. The roof over your head, the copious amounts of food you cram into your fat face, the computer (and high-speed internet) you plop your ever-widening ass in front of all frickin’ day. You, a grown woman, are as dependent on me as our children. I pay for you entire existence.
And as far as your “job” being as stressful and important as mine - are you trying to make me die from laughing so you can collect the insurance money?! You talk about being a maid, cook, chauffeur, nanny and blah blah blah - but LOOK AROUND - the house is a
mess, the only meals served in this house come from boxes, when I come home the kids are telling me about all the crap they’ve watched on TV all day! What the hell is it you do that’s so tiring?! You don’t clean, you don’t cook, you don’t have to drive anywhere that’s more than 20 minutes away - hell, most days it seems that you don’t even shower or
make the minimal effort required to look like a half-decent human being! You have a dishwasher, a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine and dryer. My mother did a LOT more than you do, with a helluva lot less. THAT’S why she hates you. And damn me for not listening to her when she warned me about you.If you don’t like it, put the kids in daycare and get a job - I won’t stop you. No? You’re not going to do that? Yeah… I didn’t think so. Shut your complaining food-suction hole, realize how good you’ve got it, and don’t make a fuss if you have to put my shoes in the closet or clean the beer cans I left on the coffee table. And don’t you DARE tell me to “pull my weight” around the house, bitch, because I’ve got the house, the cars, the bills, the food, the clothes, the kids and YOU all chained to MY fucking back - and I’m carrying all of that weight on MY shoulders ALONE.
35 people “me too”ed that post I quoted above.
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That’s unbelievable. But don’t give up yet: there’s still this response:
So far, only 12 “me too”s. But at the moment, that’s more “me too”s than anything else on the page. The nice guys may win yet!
I saw that and I wanted to kick that dude. It’s things like that, that make me dangerously close to becoming a man-hater. :/
Somehow that site reminds me of “promise keepers”. It seems to have good intentions, but the users ruin it.
And Brittney, just because that guys wife made a very bad choice in getting married to him doesn’t mean that marriage should be forsaken. You shouldn’t assume you’ll make an equally bad choice in husbands.
Oh…By the way, that guy that wrote that is a horses ass that should have everyone of his brothers in law read that, know it was him and suffer the his fate. Unfortunately, he’s not much of man since he posted that autonomously. While he sounds like “wife beater” material, I’m sure his wife can probably kick his ass. No wonder he’s so miserable.
Ug. For a truly alternate perspective, check out my friend Kate’s recent post on her shift to being a SAHP. Before I give you the link, here’s the backstory: Kate’s husband stayed at home for the first year and half of their daughter’s life, while Kate kept working her IT/Ops gig at Jobster, where I used to work with her. Now that they’ve switched off the parenting roles, Kate is attacking her stay at home parenting with the same attention to detail that she applied to her IT job. It’s awesome to read about.
Anyway, here’s the link: http://mynameiskate.com/blog/2007/06/19/keeping-the-house/
Like Marc said, you wouldn’t marry someone like that.
Any of those sites make me jaded. What a sad accumulation of humanity.
A stunning reminder of the true cost for the previously coveted MRS degree.
Not all marriage is like that, many are much better and more equal partnerships, but there is a cost involved to be a SAHM in independence, finances and pride. Understand up front what both partners are willing to pay.
So sacred. So sanctified. See, this is why Jesus and God want marriage to be kept within the confines of a penis and a vagina. You can only get this kind of deep, lasting love when it’s heterosexual.
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