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Who's In Charge at Home?

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  Oct-20 10:56 am

How is the dynamic in your home?  Who's in charge- you? your spouse? do you both have equal say?

With women now making up half of the workforce outside of the home for the first time in our nation, do you think there has been a shift of power within the home?

Maria Shriver, the founder of A Woman's Nation,  interviewed men about this- watch what they had to say.

Men discuss power structure at home- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33247001/ns/today-a_womans_nation

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Thanks for posting this!  This is always an area of interest for me because I was a WOHM after Galete was born and am now a SAHM, and my DH and I have the exact same level of education.  But even when I worked full time outside the home, I did most of the work at home too, because I worked 45 hours a week and he works 70 to 90 hours most weeks.  It was exhausting and very difficult on us both, and fortunately we could afford for me to quit.  And it was a truly mutual decision, complete with many discussions on how I could keep my professional contacts and skills and not completely dissolve into the "mom" role.

Even though I expected to and do not resent doing more of the housework because I'm just physically home more often, he happily helps when he can with the day to day stuff like dishes, and he does the big projects like yardwork and home repairs, with my input when appropriate (for instance, he doesn't ask and I don't care how he fixes the lawnmower, but we choose paint colors together).  When it comes to things I normally handle, like if he's taking Galete out for the afternoon without me, he'll sometimes ask for my opinion on something like how much snack to bring.

 

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  Oct-21 11:58 pm

Our 11 month old daughter is running the show in our home! LOL.

I work 3 days a week and DH goes to school 2 days a week. I think we pretty much share responsibilities evenly. He does the bills and yard work and I clean the house. He watches Anna when I work and I watch her when he is at school and studying. We both like to go grocery shopping and run errands together.

-erica

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