re: #387 CongoJack

That shit makes my blood boil. My wife has friends who have literally said I am not a real man because I don’t own a gun and am a self described liberal/progressive.

Almost every night I cook my wife dinner. I let her decompress a little and play with our kid. My work is less stressful and why not make my wife’s life easier (we like to cook together as well). These same “friends” who tell my wife I am not a real man have husbands that don’t cook and who can’t be left alone with their children (because they don’t know how to parent - it is always the wife’s duty).

I know that these men would sooner starve, sitting alone at home, just waiting for their significant other to come home than be an adult and effing cook for themselves.

My husband is one of 9 living children, most boys. His mother taught every one of them how to cook, do their own laundry and take care of themselves. She taught them respect and honesty and how to be good human beings. (Both his parents did.) None expect their wives to do everything for them and all see marriage as a partnership not a owner/slave relationship. And from what I know of all of them, none would want that.