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Going away for 2 days and leaving this for dh!!
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Do you know, if anyone said this sort of thing about women, there would be an uproar!(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »I can only go on my own experience too. My husband, my dad, my husband's stepfather, my sisters' husbands, all my friends' husbands with possibly one exception, are/were all perfectly capable of looking after the home and family for two days.
Even the one exception would be capable of feeding the children properly and making sure they were picked up at the correct time. He may forget to tell them to brush their teeth or change their clothes, but he is quite a 'vague' person who I think is on the autistic spectrum.
I find it difficult to believe there are so many 'useless' men around.
Oh there is!
Plenty of useless women too, of course....
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »Do you know, if anyone said this sort of thing about women, there would be an uproar!
Ha, I hadn't read this when I posted about useless men and women!
I'd find it amusing if I needed to do any DIY and was left a note like that because I know I'm hopeless at it!0 -
No, I don't do DIY either.....:o
But making sure children are fed and watered and cleaning the house for two days doesn't take any great brains or dexterity, does it? It's not beyond most people.
I'm not sure it's a fair comparison.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »No, I don't do DIY either.....:o
But making sure children are fed and watered and cleaning the house for two days doesn't take any great brains or dexterity, does it? It's not beyond most people.
I'm not sure it's a fair comparison.
No, it shouldn't be, but there are people out there who just can't grasp it.
Or maybe 'won't' grasp it is a better description....
From a mum's POV it's difficult to leave it to chance if you really feel they may miss something fundamental iyswim?
In my case, it's not a lack of caring, but more he lacks ability to see through another's eyes, so unless he is hungry, he wouldn't think the girls may be.
I have honestly come home before now and he's sorted lunch for himself but dd(8) may have lunch but have had no drink all day, or may just have got herself some toast during the course of the morning, so he didn't get her lunch iyswim?
And he wouldn't get her in for lunch if she was out playing - he'd just feed himself.
Neither will he call dd(17) if she is upstairs and he makes lunch - he just does some for himself!
I realise at 17 she is capable of getting her own, and she does, but the point I'm making is he doesn't automatically think of others in the house in the way I do iyswim?0 -
I accept what you say bestpud
I've obviously met a different type of male to you!
Feeding them and keeping them safe I do agree is important but if they miss a meeting of brownies or something in the two days it doesn't really matter does it? At least I don't think it does.:o(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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bestspud are you married to my dh lol!!JAN GC- £155.77 out of £200 FEB GC £197.31 out of £180:o. MARCH GC - out of £2000
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seven-day-weekend wrote: »I accept what you say bestpud I've obviously met a different type of male to you!
Feeding them and keeping them safe I do agree is important but if they miss a meeting of brownies or something in the two days it doesn't really matter does it? At least I don't think it does.:o
I think it may if you're the brownie concerned.:)Bern :j0 -
I think it may if you're the brownie concerned.:)
Yes, maybe, in which case she would remind her dad, wouldn't she?
It wouldn't have bothered my son in the slightest if he'd have missed cubs.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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