Reader question: Do Stay at Home Moms Have To Do All The Housework?

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 5, 2015 | Emotional Connection, Homemaking

When it comes to splitting household chores, does the wife really have to do all the housework if she stays at home? Every Monday I like to try to answer a Reader Question, and today I’ve got two quite similar ones from two frustrated moms who feel that their...

Reader Question of the Week: My Husband Won’t Help at all Around the House

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Apr 20, 2013 | Emotional Connection, Homemaking

A reader wrote in recently quoting on of my posts: “We tend to clean the house when we see what needs doing. Men don’t work the same way. So if you ask him for a specific task, he’s more likely to do it.” She then added, What about when you...

Reader Question: My Husband Thinks the Kids Are All My Job

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Mar 2, 2013 | Family, Resolving Conflict

Every weekend I like to post a question someone sends in and let you readers have a go at it. This week’s question comes from a homemaker, who wants a better balance in the division of labor with her husband: For almost 3 years, I have been a homemaker. When my...

Taming the Packrat

by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Dec 30, 2009 | Homemaking, Marriage

To go along with our New Year’s Challenge theme, I thought we’d talk clutter. It seems to me that there are two types of husbands: those who are inclined to come home at night, look at the house, and say “what did you do all day?” because...

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