I've been doing my own laundry since i was 8. i moved out when i 18. i ran a million dollar business for 3 years. i am a very independent woman. i believe in equality. i rarely ask for help with things i can do myself. with all that said, i believe in marriage the man has certain jobs. its not like ted and i purposefully sat down and discussed what our "jobs" would be in this marriage, i mean we did on BIG things, but not necessarily on little things. what i think is most interesting is that we have fallen into these "jobs" with hardly any discussion or objections. There are jobs that we share, SEVERAL(too many to name or even mention) jobs that i do and BIG jobs that ted does like providing for us so i can stay home (and do the SEVERAL jobs).
SO here are the assumed jobs that Ted does as the "man":
take out the trash
put the trash cans out on trash day
unclog the toilet
put gas in the car
pick up the dog poop
mow the lawn
get me water when i ask
change a poopy diaper when i ask
AND
check strange noises no matter what time i here them
all these things i have listed are things i CAN do and HAVE done by myself and on occasion still do. but they are things that i, as a married woman,expect ted to do, and ted, as the husband, does without question or without me having to ask him to do. I have to say that i think that part of the reason this whole situation works so well is that Teds mom and dad taught him how to be a good husband but i wonder if some of it is just part of the male species, like the whole hunter and gather theories between men and woman. so Thank you Ted, for being a great husband!
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