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Frankly, I don't know how women today "do it." By "do it," I mean balance a career with family. Women have been "liberated" to a life of drudgery. With their equal rights have come awesome responsibilities. And many times very unhappy husbands. With all this liberation, something's got to give -- and with a divorce rate of almost 50%, there's no doubt in MY mind what's "giving."
I work full time, I have 2 kids, and I do all of the household maintenance, lawn care, and most of the housework (I'm a single mom). In comparison to women 50 years ago, I hardly work at all. I have a ton of leisure time, I read, go to movies, have dinner out with friends, go dancing. I spent yesterday grouting my boyfriend's shower and helping him put in a new floor in his house. We spent about 8 hours working and then drove to my house and ate dinner out with my daughter.
I don't consider any aspect of my life particularly unmanageable, in fact, even mowing the lawn or trimming the hedges has its own satisfactions. I cooked an amazing Indian dinner tonight and had pretty amazing sex today, too. My life is great. I don't really know what any woman in the U.S. has to whine about.
Maybe it was a lot harder when my kids were little, but I don't think it was that unmanageable.
Could we please stop with the hyperbole? My life is not drudgery. Compared to what women in another generation dealt with, my life is a piece of cake.
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