lostineverfreeforest
Senior Member
No, living with someone means sharing responsibility equally.
Apparently, this dog situation was exacerbated by the fact that my mom never even told my dad about the dog when she was making the plans of getting one.
Honestly, it still pains me, and my mom still says now that everything she did in 2008 was right and that she'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Is the husband more dominant? Depends on the couple. It really varies in reality, but traditionally it's the husband.
I do agree that both of the parents run the household, however I feel like the man usually is the "leader" and the woman is the caretaker, organizer, etc.
Though, nowadays the roles are very fluid.
If you were to ask me I would probably still agree with the man as the runner of the household.
No, this is 2017.
It shouldn't matter year it is. In no age ever should men have had any right over women.
100% agreed. A household shouldn't be dominated by one parent.
That division of roles in a household is kind of outdated. The man is the protector and provider, while the woman stays at home and raises the kids ideal. Some cultures do still follow it and you should respect their beliefs, personally I would never want to be a family unit like that. I see lots of people still abide by it, but newer generations are more tuned into equality overall (gender, race, sexual orientation, political view, religion). Saying one person has a certain job, or expecting someone to fall into a stereotype is annoying.
If my child loved something and I knew it (video game, pet, other thing) I would want to get to know it more and share in that experience even if I don't understand it. It just seems like such a weak cop-out to just get rid of the poor thing, rather than try to fix the problem.
That logic is super outdated. I don't even care if someone has a weirdly magical upper-middle class household where the wife has the luxury of being a stay-at-home mom while the dad works. She still has an equal say in that house because she lives there. So do their kids (within reason).
I had a girlfriend who treated me that way. She considered herself to be the more "masculine" one in our relationship, and thought she was the one who should be in charge as a result. We obviously aren't dating anymore!![]()
Though, I bet my wife will end up really running it. I'll just turn out to be one of those dads who comes home just for dinner and reads the newspaper until I go to bed offering shallow advice to kids I barely know when they come seeking life's solutions
I live by myself, I run myself.