I Am Tired Of My Husband Earning a Living!

Published on August 25, 2005 By greywar In Current Events

[sarcasm] I mean really he works 12 hours a day (and never the same 12) and then he insists that I manage to keep on top of the bills somehwere in my 12 hour a day at home schedule! What does he expect of me? I mean I spend 3 hours a day on houseworks at least! SO what if eh does the dishes after I spend an hour a day cooking for him? Thats still 4 hours of solid work out of the 12 he is away from home! That bastard!

How dare he earn a living! Fuck him and his "military life"! I deserve better!

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Comments (Page 1)

dharmagrl

on Aug 25, 2005

Dude, who said this?

greywar

on Aug 25, 2005

Dude, who said this?

Oh it was just a knee-jerk reaction to a few recent articles....

dharmagrl

on Aug 25, 2005

Oh it was just a knee-jerk reaction to a few recent articles

Never mind. I think I know.

I've bitched, yes. D puts in more than his fair share some days, and we're both looking forward to him retiring. However...I don't think I would have the balls to complain about him not doing anything around the house after putting in a 16 hour day (that's mainly because he does things around here anyway).

greywar

on Aug 25, 2005

I've bitched, yes.

Was not in response to any of your articles:)

aeryck

on Aug 25, 2005

[I'll do you dishes] [/I'll do you dishes] ~ 'tis winter here and dishes are pure pleasure... it is all in the wrists...

dharmagrl

on Aug 25, 2005

Was not in response to any of your articles:)

Yeah, I know. I'm onto it.....and I can agree with you.

greywar

on Aug 25, 2005

it is all in the wrists...

For me it is all in the automatic dishwasher:)

Texas Wahine

on Aug 25, 2005

Try being on the other side, greywar.

Try raising several children all alone. Try breaking up the fights, cleaning the muddy hand prints off the walls, cooking 3 or 4 meals a day where nearly everyone wants something different, bathing kids who don't want to be bathed, keeping the ungodly amounts of dishes and clothes clean, making sure you remember where your husband's important papers or piece of gear are because he won't, keeping the floor mopped and vacuumed, dealing with the influx of homework and papers to be signed, making sure to spend at least 20 minutes a day reading to the kids, remembering where the kids put their good sneakers, making phone calls all day for appointments and questions about bills or store hours and school lunches or any number of other things that require more information, making sure to be dressed nice for your spouse lest he think you a slob, prying hooters girls cards out of the inside of the fan, going to Open House and teachers conferences and Halloween and birthdays as the lone parent, making sure to be up for sex whenever your spouse desires it even though you've just spent the last hour scrubbing toilets and explaining to your child why he shouldn't call his friend bastards, making sure that you keep track of all incoming paperwork and bills so that everything gets paid on time, and making sure that your family has enough money to eat on once the bills are paid and your spouse has spent a couple hundred dollars on video games and morning sodas, and don't forget to call your mother-in-law and tell her happy birthday because your spouse won't do it.

Do all this, and more, much more...while your husband dates and sleeps with another woman and bitches at you constantly for things that are out of your control.

Sounds like paradise, eh?

greywar

on Aug 25, 2005

Try being on the other side, greywar.

I AM on the other side... thats why I disagree so fervently.

greywar

on Aug 25, 2005

while your husband dates and sleeps with another woman and bitches at you constantly for things that are out of your control.

If your hubby is fucking around then it has nothing todo with these issues but rather with poor husband material.

Texas Wahine

on Aug 25, 2005

greywar: That was a generalized example, but you should know the infidelity issues that are common in the military.

Texas Wahine

on Aug 25, 2005

I AM on the other side... thats why I disagree so fervently.

Not really.

dharmagrl

on Aug 25, 2005

Try being on the other side,

I am as well, and whilst I agree that it aint no picnic sometimes, neither is pulling a 14 hour shift in 100 degree weather w/70% humidity in BDU's, kevlar, weapons belt and wool beret...being at the beck and call of the military, getting shipped out to god-knows-where god-knows-when with a week's notice (if you're lucky), living in a tent, crapping in a communal bathroom with no doors on the stalls, having no hot running water most of the time, having to deal with the bullshit TCN's, and to top all of it off, coming home to a wife who constantly complains that you don't do jack shit, who complains that she's put upon because you're gone trying to support her and your kids, and who's got you so far in debt that collections agencies are calling your house every fekkin' night.

They've got it bad too.

Marriage is a partnership, and each party has to pull their weight.

My job as a military spouse is to do what it takes to enable my husband to do his job to the best of his abilities. If that means paying the bills on time, then that's what I do.

greywar

on Aug 25, 2005

Not really.

No really. I am a military spouse now and just because I am male doesn't make me less acquainted with the tribulations of the military. If he is a cheater it is because he is a cheater, not beccasue of his job. He cheats? Get rid of his ass now and not later.

Texas Wahine

on Aug 25, 2005

My point is this: The blogger whose article has been "spoofed" here has had it extraordinarily rough. I think it's pretty cruel to ridicule her for expressing her frustrations.

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