Marriage and the Power of Divorce

Trollface_sl said:

stay at home mom is the best job. wtf.

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I am slowly losing my mind. Surrounded by kids, cartoons and Frozen songs over and over and over and over again.... I can't wait until the last one is in school and I can get a job where there might be adult conversation.

Phazael_sl said:

As the resident female, what is your assessment of the Onoes situation, tit pics and all?

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She's pretty decent for a rebound. Have fun, but don't be stupid about it and let the ex find out before the divorce is final. And let it stay a rebound.

Trollface_sl said:

is lindz cool with wife swapping.

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So I can clean up more people's crap. No thx.

You don't really need social skills on the internets.

Trollface_sl said:

your worth:

-BIG PIC

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What mom spends 14hrs a week cooking? The kids getting souffl? every night? CEO work, really?


Honest question here for the femalez. Every stay at home mom I've ever met complains endlessly about how hard/thankless their job is (including my mom growing up as well as my stepmom), and I always ask the obvious question "why don't you work and just pay for a nanny/maid?". Obviously there is the pragmatic reason such as "I have four kids under the age of 10 and could only haul in 40K a year, so it isn't worth it", but most of the time it's more along the lines that "My precious Timmy will grow up to be a sociopathic mass murderer unless I am present 24/7". I may get flamed for this, but I hate the use of the word "hard" in reference to housework/child rearing, and I hear it all the time. There are differences between hard, thankless, and shitty. Calculus is hard. Doing laundry and changing diapers is just shitty.. I've told every woman I have ever seriously dated that I don't want her cleaning toilets and running laundry all day, and that with the exception of maybe a year off post childbirth I expect her to have a job- not because we would necessarily need the money, but simply because a) you can hire barely literate people at 9 bucks an hour that do a fantastic job at cleaning/laundry, and I feel my potential wife's time is worth more than $9 an hour and b) I feel that the extended (5+ years) stay at home mom suffers from some serious confidence/self-worth issues. I'm no longer marketable, I don't feel pretty anymore because all I do is run around the house bedraggled doing laundry and feeding the kids, my husband earns all the money, etc.. Entirely subjective, but the most stable happy relationships I've seen aren't where the wife stays home, but when both partners have jobs and the "power" is equally distributed.

Boy women sure do like to give themselves a lot of credit don't they? CEO? Psychologist? Facilities manager? And what the fuck is a "Computer Operator 1"?

Parents who work still have to clean, cook, do laundry and all that other shit too, they just have to go to a real job on top of that 8 hours a day. Pretty convenient to give themselves double time for overtime on top of a salary too, as if salaried employees typically get any overtime at all. Pffft. Trollface, that picture has rustled my jimmies.

Khane_sl said:

Boy women sure do like to give themselves a lot of credit don't they? CEO? Psychologist? Facilities manager? And what the fuck is a "Computer Operator 1"?

Parents who work still have to clean, cook, do laundry and all that other shit too, they just have to go to a real job on top of that 8 hours a day. Pretty convenient to give themselves double time for overtime on top of a salary too, as if salaried employees typically get any overtime at all. Pffft. Trollface, that picture has rustled my jimmies.

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Computer Operator 1 can install an OS and build a PC from components. You know, that mobo installation training every mom received in Lamaze class.. Time to fire my helpdesk guy and get a housewife on the cheap.. I think they meant to say "Daytime Facebook/Instagram Operator level 1"

I figured housewives thought people get paid to post pictures of their kids eating cereal on Facebook. On second thought maybe that one isn't that far fetched.

It has a lot of value, it can be draining, but are do other jobs. I don't appreciate when people say it has no worth at all, but I'm not one to say it is the hardest job in the world.

For me personally, it was the path I chose when I was young. I had my first kid at 22 and wasn't really mature enough to see that it was a life choice that wouldn't make me completely happy. For now, I have to stick it out until the kids are in school because I couldn't make more than it would cost me for childcare. I love my kids and family, but I'm not the stay at home mom type.

The happiness of my relationship isn't lessened because I'm a stay at home mom. I don't feel like I contribute any less than my husband because he makes a paycheck and I don't. My own personal happiness isn't where it should be though because there is more I want from life, because I want something that is for me, that I enjoy doing, etc.

So yeah, hardest job in the world? No, but it is a draining job for sure.

#instagram #nofilter #kideatscereal

Tuco that picture accurately describes my days as a software engineer

I just love how every fucking mundane task you have to do in order to even survive is on that list. I mean seriously can I count wiping my ass as Waste Disposal Clerk at $18.00 an hour? Posting on the forums as Novice Writer at $10.00 an hour? That type of logic just blows me away. They can put all the bullshit numbers they want on that thing, but the fact of the matter is you can get someone to do all that work for $10.00 an hour and they won't bitch or whine about it.

I like how they think CEOs make $54/hr.

Noodleface_sl said:

I like how they think CEOs make $54/hr.

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I also like how counseling their children is somehow a burden to them that they feel is worth noting at $38 an hour. Here's a tip if everything about your kids is cumbersome and inconvenient then maybe you shouldn't fucking have them lol.

lindz you need to cover your eyes, this might get a little rough

BrotherWu_sl said:

I didn't see a charge for prostitute?

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Now wait just a minute! You expect the CEO of your household to put out, on top of giving the children psychiatric care?!