Housework: Men should not do it.

[merithyn]

I find this very plausible. Being her kitchen bitch risks killing the lust dead as disco. 

I also suppose that being incompetent (in her eyes) at housework will only reduce her respect for you.

That and exhaustion from working all day then cleaning/cooking all evening kind of kills any desire, too.

[Admiral Yi]

That's a cheap wedding. I expect to spend that on my daughter's dress alone when the time comes*. 

Brown Wolf was suggesting that was the cost to get married, not the wedding.

[merithyn]

That's a cheap wedding. I expect to spend that on my daughter's dress alone when the time comes*. 

Brown Wolf was suggesting that was the cost to get married, not the wedding.

For many, they are one in the same.

[Eddie Teach]

That's a cheap wedding.

Not at a courthouse, it's not.

[Grey Fox]

That's a cheap wedding. I expect to spend that on my daughter's dress alone when the time comes*. 

Brown Wolf was suggesting that was the cost to get married, not the wedding.

I don't know how much it cost with or without a wedding, I figured 5k was enough to rent a space & have dinner with ~50 person. I really don't know. My GF & I agree that we have more urgent thing to spend the money on.

[PDH]

I'd like PDH to chime in on this one.

I am a firm supporter that men don't do a half-assed job because they want to get out of work.  Male Pattern Incompetence is because they truly don't see the problem, and when they try to do it it ends up being wrong.  Sure, pleated pants wearing types who have sweater vests and visit their mom each Sunday for a brisket are able to clean all right, and maybe someday they will make some girl a nice wife, but for the rest of us it doesn't work that way.

In real life, I could never clean right - even putting the dishes in the dishwasher didn't work.  No wonder I have an ex-wife.

[merithyn]

I am a firm supporter that men don't do a half-assed job because they want to get out of work.  Male Pattern Incompetence is because they truly don't see the problem, and when they try to do it it ends up being wrong.  Sure, pleated pants wearing types who have sweater vests and visit their mom each Sunday for a brisket are able to clean all right, and maybe someday they will make some girl a nice wife, but for the rest of us it doesn't work that way.

In real life, I could never clean right - even putting the dishes in the dishwasher didn't work.  No wonder I have an ex-wife.

So only whipped men with no style are capable of putting plates in a dishwasher now, eh? There's a gene or something that's blocked by testasterone, preventing men from being able to see dirt/cobwebs/mud/slime? Sorry, not buying it. Especially because I know plenty of men who do a great job of cleaning given the right incentive.

[Valmy]

Heh plenty of men clean for the sheer joy because they are neat freaks.

[PDH]

Sorry, not buying it. Especially because I know plenty of men who do a great job of cleaning given the right incentive.

Yep, pussy whipped men.

[Tonitrus]

This is a case, I think, of somewhat misleading statistics.

I think it is more likely that men and women who share chores are already more independently-minded, and probably just naturally more prone to divorce for unrelated reasons (or no reason at all)...while those couples where the wife is more likely to do all the chores, is probably already more "traditionally-minded", and just as much naturally less likely to divorce.

[Valmy]

Yeah journalists never get correlation is not causation. 

[PDH]

I blame bitchy women.

[sbr]

I blame bitchy women.

  The men that are nagged to death to help with the chores get sick of the bitching and upgrade to a newer, quieter model.

[Eddie Teach]

So you're saying the key to a happy marriage is for her to get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich? Interesting. 

[HVC]

The

I blame bitchy women.

  The men that are nagged to death to help with the chores get sick of the bitching and upgrade to a newer, quieter model.

the first ones just a practice run anyway... An expensive soul crushing practice run