I get very enraged when I see a woman doing everything in the house, while her kids and husband just eat and shit. Because my mother lived like that.

Like a slave and I had to take so much of that burden in my youth to make her stop doing it. All day cleaning and cooking like a slave, no rest. From 4 a.m baking, cooking new meals, cleaning, washing, organizing... Wasting her health for a shit man.

After her divorce and moving near me I got her someone to do the work. She made it so difficult and would always create issues with her. And insist to accumulate trash because of her depression which I had to go and clean..

It triggers me when I see a woman in the same context but it is so darn common.

Not talking about people who enjoy the role, obviously. Some of you are slow and need constant disclaimers.

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Roundandroundwego · 61-69

My mother and I lived like that while the males went straight to the TV after dinner and had lives outside our home.
Our father did his profession in a state funded well respected central institution, our mothers always worked in isolation and poverty always alone.
Inequality is most harmful now, without that New Deal! But I know everyone voted and went to war, sacrificed and died to make that New Deal a never again deal! That's the meaning of the USA.
My father once knocked me out cold just like I was a boy though! For a sigh about the dishes after dinner while his boys were gleefully running away.
Inequality made a visit to the ER impossible for me - Dad retired to the TV room after pulling broken glass out of my scalp and making sure I was awake. I did hid dishes. It was forty years later that I stopped calling it love and affection and family.