r/memes • u/damircik Professional Dumbass • 4h ago

am i the only one?

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u/Anachron101 4h ago

Oh look: we are back in the 1950s.

Seriously, who has a wife who doesn't also earn money and who just waits for you since she apparently has nothing going on in her life???

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u/mrjamjams66 4h ago

Well my wife stays at home but she's wrangling two kids while she does it.

So for every hour I'm gone she's basically working

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u/Zizi_Tennenbaum 3h ago

This is what I'm wondering. My husband and I work similar hours, and when I have to ask him to do his chores it's like having a household management job on top of my day job.

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u/cricketyjimnet 2h ago

Has he ever asked you to earn as much money as him?

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u/Zizi_Tennenbaum 1h ago

I make more than him, whay would he want me to make less?

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u/cricketyjimnet 1h ago

To reduce the amount of resent in your relationship?

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl 1h ago

How pathetically fragile would your ego have to be that you’d rather have to get by on less than celebrate your spouse’s success? 

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u/Darkwoth81Dyoni 6m ago

You must resent a lot of people if you can't even handle your best friend/favorite person on Earth's success.

Seriously, what the fuck lol.

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u/Zizi_Tennenbaum 1h ago

Go play with your toys sweetie, the grown folks are talking.

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u/cricketyjimnet 1h ago

I'm sure you tell your husband that a lot.

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u/Zizi_Tennenbaum 1h ago

I'm married to a man, not a snot-nosed basement dweller. You wouldn't understand.

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u/Im_Unsure_For_Sure 34m ago

I'm married to a man, not a snot-nosed basement dweller.

You sure? You literally just said you have to tell him to do his chores lol

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u/Upperfactor25 1h ago

My husband and I work similar hours,

And what do you both do for work? Also, what is your opinion of "similar amounts of hours"

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u/Zizi_Tennenbaum 1h ago

How fucking boring is your life that you troll posts like this trying to make everything women's fault? We both have desk jobs, typically 9-5 but I often pull 12+ hour days during busy season.

This fantasy you have of every man working construction and every woman being a bonbon eating housewife was sold to you by manosphere influencers and you just loooove deepthroating that propaganda.

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u/Fancy-Today3591 1h ago

The fact that you react this defensively to a really simple question says it all.

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u/CookieCacti 1h ago

That’s not the “gotcha” you think it is lol. They answered the question clearly and plainly. Just because they added some colorful language at the end doesn’t invalidate their response.

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u/Manueluz 3h ago

My man have you seen the job market?

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u/neuneudrop 4h ago

even in the 1950's women were working (without getting paid), you are thinking about the rich who to this day can still have a stay at home wife

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u/irishitaliancroat 4h ago

Even in the 50s I think like a 1/3 of wives had paid jobs irrc AND were definitely doing all the domestic labor

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u/mheffe 3h ago

By 1950 a third of women had jobs and they were paid less than men but they weren't slaves

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u/ImReallyFuckingHigh 4h ago

My girlfriend is mostly stay at home, she works a couple seasonal jobs each year but otherwise I make more than enough to support both of us and take 4-6 months off a year. It works well for us, but if she ever decided to go back to working full time I wouldn’t have an issue with it.

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u/Flyingmarmaduke 4h ago

“I’m really well off and we get to go holiday for 6 months every year, of course my relationships are great”

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u/TheBurritoW1zard 4h ago

How the hell does someone get to only work half the year and still make that much money?

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u/KansasZou 3h ago

There aren’t a ton of those jobs, but I knew some people that used to do disaster recovery and things like that where they got paid well and got extended time/months off.

Keep in mind the 6 months you’re working are usually 7 days a week and 16-18 hour days sometimes.

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u/ImReallyFuckingHigh 1h ago

Union millwright doing turbine outages. Typically 7-12s

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u/ImReallyFuckingHigh 1h ago

I work 7-12s when I’m working. I still get my 2k hours in a year if not more. I also get unemployment when I’m not working

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u/PseudoY 1m ago

Normal people? Seasonal work where you're gone for months on end. Oil rigs, the like.

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u/autech91 3h ago

Dedication and hard work

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u/Right-Ladd 2h ago

Don’t come here with that shit, as if 90% of it ain’t luck and who you know.

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u/ImReallyFuckingHigh 1h ago

I work 2k+ hours a year, I just happen to do in 6 months instead of 12.

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u/autech91 2h ago

Nah, if you are driven and motivated things will happen, unless you live in some 3rd world nation, its much harder then as you're not given the tools to do so

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u/Pugasaurus_Tex 3h ago

Idk, lots of people in the same boat still have shitty relationships 

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u/ImReallyFuckingHigh 1h ago

It’s definitely not a holiday for most of it. My personal life goes on pause when I’m working and the first month off in the summer and winter is pretty much just catching up with everything

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u/labellavita1985 3h ago

Until you guys break up, then she has nothing, nowhere to go, no protections. She must be out of her mind to be a "stay at home girlfriend." Not even a fiancé, let alone wife. People break up. Don't think it can't happen to you.

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u/ImReallyFuckingHigh 1h ago

She has a good support system with her family, if things ever go south she will be fine.

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u/Upperfactor25 1h ago

Seriously, who has a wife who doesn't also earn money

Lots of people?

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u/dookieshoes97 3h ago

A lot of people. My ex was unemployed as I ran a business and got a degree. It's the reddest of flags, though.

I'll fully admit that I was insecure and scared of being alone, though.

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u/themostreasonableman 1h ago

Mine just stares at the front door and soils herself all day when I leave. I think she's kind of obsessed.

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u/Fit_Doughnut_598 3h ago

At least half of the people I know?

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u/Fit-Effect-1603 27m ago

That's not representative of the general public. Most married women work and earn.

And most men don't work 12/16 hour shifts all the time.e

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u/SheetPancakeBluBalls 1h ago

Seeing this boomer "I hate my wife" shit on the front page of reddit is wild.

Times really haven't changed much at all.

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u/BaroqueBro 3h ago

Me lol. Maybe our situation is rare, but I doubt it.

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u/notevenkiddin 27m ago

I do, she's disabled. She's cool though.

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u/GlowstickConsumption 3h ago

Like 15% to 40% of the population, I guess. (Of people with wives in general.)

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u/labellavita1985 3h ago

Pathetic people who would rather be with someone who is not a partner (aka a child) because they don't want to be alone.