Is it me or does every guy's household duties increase once your wife get's pregnant? Be honest!

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MuffD

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I feel like I work five days a week at my "regular" job and then when I get home, I have to cook, clean, and spend most of my Friday's and sometimes Saturday's doing laundry for myself, my wife and my baby.

How many of you guys there did the same?
 
Evadman

Evadman

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ya and? Your wife did it for years, and you never noticed.
 
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Antisocial Virge

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Originally posted by: Evadman
ya and? Your wife did it for years, and you never noticed.
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exactly
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MichaelD

MichaelD

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You're bitching now? Just you WAIT until muffstah Jr. shows up and not only are you doing most things around the house, but you're being physically and emotionally neglected, your efforts are unappreciated...and you're forced to buy A Family Van and the neighbors make fun of you. it gets worse. Drink heavily this evening....sleep...even sleep will be quite the foreign concept within the next half year or so. :(
 
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KGB1

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A Family Van
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I got an Astro Van... I have no sappy Windstar.. Oddyssey...Sienna....Quest.... I got a 4.3 V6 POWER HOUSE....my kids + wife will feel SMALL compared to it... :D I will be king of the road with that I can guarantee you mister,and I wont have it any other way.
 
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RU482

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1st kid
I was working, she was in college. I was on the road alot, but I tried to do as much as I could while I was home.

2nd kid
We were both working, I was not traveling anymore. I took on more responsibility with the 1st kid and around the house. Coincidentally, she complained more than with the first

3rd kid
In progress. She's home with the 1st 2 kids, entering 2nd trimester. She's getting her energy back and is really turning into a hell of a homemaker (and a really good cook). My responsibility has remained the same, aside from working overtime to keep us out of the red. Also, her attitude is good (no naggin, happy, ect)

Moral of my story...don't pamper your wife TOO much all of the time, just when she needs it/deserves it

EDIT: a great thing you can do is get her a professional message, especially later in the pregnancy...my wife still raves about that
 
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tcsenter

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ya and? Your wife did it for years, and you never noticed.
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She worked five days a week and did all that other stuff, too? I don't see where he said that.

Doing housework is easy, and yes I've done it. This has been women's 'dirty little secret' for...like...ever. The husband of a former coworker is the 'stay home dad' and his wife works because she makes nearly twice as much as him, so it only made sense that he stay at home while she worked. He loves it, he says "It sure as hell beats working for a living." Ask his wife if he does a good job and she will tell you he does a better job than she ever would. They have a 2 year-old and a 5 year-old.

The secret is that you can't lounge around on the sofa eating Bon-Bons and watching Oprah or The Young and the Restless three hours each day.
 
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yes but even though it was the most tiring (sp) it was the best of times

glad i got to pay her back for some of the many things she does for us;)
 
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gooseman

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My wife hasn't been pregnant yet but my workload doubled the day I got married!!!
 
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Originally posted by: tcsenter
ya and? Your wife did it for years, and you never noticed.
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She worked five days a week and did all that other stuff, too? I don't see where he said that.

Doing housework is easy, and yes I've done it. This has been women's 'dirty little secret' for...like...ever. The husband of a former coworker is the 'stay home dad' and his wife works because she makes nearly twice as much as him, so it only made sense that he stay at home while she worked. He loves it, he says "It sure as hell beats working for a living." Ask his wife if he does a good job and she will tell you he does a better job than she ever would. They have a 2 year-old and a 5 year-old.

The secret is that you can't lounge around on the sofa eating Bon-Bons and watching Oprah or The Young and the Restless three hours each day.
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I agree with you there. My mother raised three children, did all the house work, and was a full time medical doctor. Meanwhile I hear women complaining about how much work they do when they're a stay at home mom (and one of them had her 4 children in school full time, no less - so she didn't even have to babysit). Not to rain on anybody's parade, but if you find sitting at home by yourself all day and spending a few hours doing laundry and cleaning the house tiring you've got energy issues.
 
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MuffD

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My hard thing now is hoping I can give equal attention to both kids. Ally is almost two and Ava will be born in June. Ally seems very excited to have a new sister coming it so that kind of helps me a little.
 
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FoBoT

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yes,

unless you have one of those old fashioned wives that keeps working and drops the baby out the back while picking potato's out of the field
 
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Shockwave

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Depends. If your wife works, and now your complaining, then you need to think how long she has been doing it. But, if she was a stay at home mom, in my eyes she SHOULD cook and clean.
 
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Tallgeese

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I'll say this...

Staying home with children and taking care of a household is no picnic, no matter which parent is doing it.
It is both mentally and physically exhausting, altho some folks seem to be "naturals" at it.
I think the key to that is, like most other roles/jobs...it must in some way re-energize the person, otherwise it will completely drain them.

I also think that societal pressure continues to makes it absurdly difficult for men to stay at home and raise the children.
And make NO MISTAKE...much more of that pressure comes from women than men.
 
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MuffD

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I would just like to let everyone here know that my wife only works 2-3 days a week for a total of 20 hours a week. She works part time because she "want's to".
 
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