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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Gusman · 61-69, M

So sad to see this slavery still occurring.
I was raised by my grandmother in the 70s onwards. I was 7 years old when she arrived.
She arrived because my mother and seriously alcoholic father divorced.
My father wrote to my grandmother, saying, as the children were your daughter's, it is your duty to come and raise them.
We were 5 children brought up in a very unhappy household, so always fighting with each other.
When I look back on those days, I am extremely sad because my grandmother worked tirelessly trying to raise 5 very rowdy children, run the household, do all the shopping, non- stop cooking, cleaning etc while my father done nothing except supply the money.
Every night he would be in the pub and arrive home very drunk. Luckily, we children were in bed.
My grandmother would have been around 65 when she came over and lived the rest of her life as a slave. Being moved into a nursing home when she became too frail to do "her duty"
A very sad end for a lovely lady. The household destroyed her.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Gusman You dont see those traditional values any more..😷