Having relatives does not mean free access to endless hospitality. As a general rule, a family that pretty much gets along with one another is usually expected to take up hosting duties now and then. Whether people want to celebrate a big holiday together or just make a passing visit, welcoming relatives into one’s home …
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Roommate asks for $60/month to do her chores, doesn’t understand why other roommates refuse: ‘We are all adults and should be cleaning after ourselves’
Most roommate disputes happen because something isn’t clean. You know this if you’ve ever been a roommate. Most of it can be avoided if the house were fully clean. But the minute there are dishes in the sink and dirt on the floors, issues start to arise. There is no perfect way to split up …
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Cooking everything on high: The meme defining a generation of domestic Type B personalities
via Curated Lifestyle Tradwives be darned, nobody really cares about doing housekeeping properly these days. These lackadaisical younger generations have grown up with mixing dark and light colors in the washing machine, DoorDash whenever it’s payday (or someone else is paying), and never mend their synthetic Shein clothes that probably only last for a couple …
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Mom rages when 21-year-old daughter refuses to continue cleaning up after 19-year-old stepbrother: ‘She tells me he’s adjusting’
Every capable adult should be contributing to the upkeep of their household. Something that most people learn pretty fast when they start to live independently is that it takes a lot of work to keep a home looking half decent. There is always laundry to be folded, dishes to be done, or trash to be …
Seguir leyendo Mom rages when 21-year-old daughter refuses to continue cleaning up after 19-year-old stepbrother: ‘She tells me he’s adjusting’
Mom goes back to work after two years at home, stay at home husband refuses to adjust chore duties to reflect that: ‘I have not been having issues’
The boring stuff defines the quality of any long-term relationship. Grand romantic gestures and expensive gifts are nice and all, but they only make up a tiny proportion of the time spent in most serious relationships (and sometimes, they don’t even get a look in). The true measure of whether somebody cares about you and …
Seguir leyendo Mom goes back to work after two years at home, stay at home husband refuses to adjust chore duties to reflect that: ‘I have not been having issues’
‘He’s your boyfriend by choice, they aren’t assigned by the government or anything’: Boyfriend leaves groceries on the floor after girlfriend asks him to put them away, leaving the kitchen a mess
Incompetence is never attractive. Odds are, we’ve all been on the internet long enough to have heard the phrase «weaponized incompetence.» If you haven’t, it means pretending to be worse at a certain chore/activity than you actually are, or playing up your natural incompetence at something in order to shirk responsibility. If you take out …
Seguir leyendo ‘He’s your boyfriend by choice, they aren’t assigned by the government or anything’: Boyfriend leaves groceries on the floor after girlfriend asks him to put them away, leaving the kitchen a mess
Office worker asks work from home boyfriend to contribute to chores during the workday, gets annoyed when he waits until after work: ‘It’s still getting done’
Proponents of working from home praise its flexibility, but that only goes so far. The degree to which a remote worker is able to execute the work-life balance that their position supposedly comes with is highly dependent on the type of job that they have and the lifestyle they maintain outside of it. Where some …
Seguir leyendo Office worker asks work from home boyfriend to contribute to chores during the workday, gets annoyed when he waits until after work: ‘It’s still getting done’
College student boyfriend allows girlfriend to clean alone for 2 hours after work, complains when she rests for 15 minutes: ‘He’s been really moody’
Teamwork is the basis of all successful long-term relationships. It might not feel like the most romantic way to think of things, but ultimately, most people prefer to be with a partner who makes their lives easier in one way or another. It takes true effort from both sides to make things work, and while …
Seguir leyendo College student boyfriend allows girlfriend to clean alone for 2 hours after work, complains when she rests for 15 minutes: ‘He’s been really moody’
Daughter-in-law refuses to spend Christmas with her mother-in-law because she forces her to cook, clean, and serve the family when she visits: ‘It’s not a vacation for me at all.’
She’s not their servant. There’s nothing fun about being a guest at someone else’s house and being expected to cook, clean, and take care of the home as if it’s your own. There are some things you can do to be a good house guest, like bringing a gift for the hosts or helping with …
Seguir leyendo Daughter-in-law refuses to spend Christmas with her mother-in-law because she forces her to cook, clean, and serve the family when she visits: ‘It’s not a vacation for me at all.’
16-year-old stops his chore of cooking for family 2 nights a week after his sister keeps destroying meals and parents except him to start over every time: ‘She’ll try over and over again until she can win’
At 16 years old, this teen had taken on the responsibility of cooking twice a week to help his parents out. They even let him drop one of his chores in exchange, and for a while, everything was fine. But recently, his 8-year-old sister has been acting out by staying up late, throwing tantrums, and …
Seguir leyendo 16-year-old stops his chore of cooking for family 2 nights a week after his sister keeps destroying meals and parents except him to start over every time: ‘She’ll try over and over again until she can win’