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When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

Bettina Arndt

Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband’s business friends.
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Aspect Career Entertaining Hooks Nusy
Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing.
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Home Husband Wife
When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.
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Aspects Become Combine Excuse Others
Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.
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Bacon Emotionally Husbamd Socially Supported
The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the “superwoman”has one marvelous compensation.
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Husband Mother Work
The good husbands understand and offer to help. “All you have to do is ask” they say. But even helpful husbands have to be thanked, their contributions acknowledged, credit given.
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Credit Grateful Husband
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don’t; men hope women won’t change but they do.
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Love Marriage Wedding
All those pleases and thank yous. Being grateful takes time and energy. It’s often easier to do it yourself.
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