[Stacee27915]

I have been married almost seven years. When I first got married, I followed my husband to another city for his career. Since he had a new, stressful job and I was unemployed, I took care of most of the housework, as well as tasks related to a new domestic status, like changing our insurance. I assumed that since my hubby knew I did not want to be a professional homemaker, he would take over some of the work when I got a job. Wrong! He got used (or rather, I allowed him to get used) to having that done for him. After I got a part-time job, then additonal freelance work, I still did the housework. I asked him to do a few things during the time when my freelance work was really heavy, but he often “forgot” or did a half-as–ed job. It caused a lot of disagreements and a lot of hurt feelings. When I got a full-time job, I sat him down and laid down the law. Help out or put up the money for hired help. Now, we each do a few things we really enjoy. He does the finances and investing, and I do the cooking and pet care. We do the things we don’t mind that the other person hates. He does the lawn and I do the laundry. We each pick up after ourselves and rinse our own dinner dishes. And we hire a maid to do the heavy stuff. What I’ve learned from this is that I will tell any daughter I might have to not do anything the first year of marriage that you don’t think you can do for the rest of your life. Once habits get set they are very hard to break.

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Name : Stacee27915, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 31, City : Houston, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : TV production, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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