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Why does some people think women at home
| Sat, 06-07-2003 - 1:02am |
should do it all? I hear this and think why should a woman at home do every thing? Shouldn't it be whatever works? Shouldn't it be whatever floats the boat of the married couple? Confused on this thinking.
If you are home do you do it all? How does your DH or SO feel?
WOH do you do it all or do you split it? Do you do more or less since you WOH?
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I've never heard of any place where the local government prohibited something like clothes lines by means of zoning; such an action would have required a 2/3 vote in favor by the residents in most municipalities since clotheslines are centuries old staples of laundry and the restrictions against them didn't really start until the late 70s. so unless your entire county was unsettled and unpopulated until such a time, I find it impossible to believe the restriction is a matter of zoning, but rather by means of pre-existing covenants to the purchase agreements made when the newer developments were built.
My condo has such a restriction, but I still hang dry approximately half my laundry; I simply don't hang it outside. I have a second spring-tension rod that I put up in my bathroom, over the tub and hang my clothes there Monday mornings. When I wake up Monday evening for work, everything's dry.
A more plausible explanation is that as new developments were built, the property was sold subject to covenants that restricted clotheslines; it's pretty common in my county, for example. However there are many older communities which still permit clotheslines; they are just vastly outnumbered by newer ones which do not.
That's part of the reason I felt so badly about myself when I was forced to SAH when my son was little. I had never known anyone who'd had a successful career prior to SAH. I felt like I was being lumped into a category I shouldn't be in, and it took a lot for me to resist the urge to tell everyone that I really was able to hold a job once, honest.
I'd never heard of anyone leaving a career/job to SAH until I came to this board. It never occurred to me that anyone would choose to do so. Since then I've thought that geography probably played a large part. Where I come from people tend to either WOH forever or SAH forever.
I'm really not quite sure how your household staff situation has any bearing at all on the topic at hand, other than you either wanted to be inflammatory, or you were just dying to let everyone know that you had a maid. I noticed you started that useless thread for the sole purpose of calling someone on the carpet, so I won't play your games, find someone else willing to buy your baloney.
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