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Housework sharing with uneven work hours?

My wife and I have a 1 year old daughter. My wife works about 25 hours a week and I work full time. On her off days, she goes shopping, visits her mom, goes swimming. Our families are very demanding so we visit each family every weekend even though they both babysit for us during the week. But that's another issue.

My question is: how do you and your spouse divide household chores if one works more hours than the other? If my wife stayed at home taking care of our daughter, I would be more willing to split the chores 50-50. Since she uses her free days to do fun stuff and I have no free days, it's getting overwhelming to have half of the chores and virtually no free time.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago
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    Working 25 hours a week should give your wife plenty of time home to do the household chores. If you want to help out, I think 50/50 is very unfair to you since you work almost twice as many hours outside the home as she does. After all, a 1 year old takes naps, which gives your wife time to do laundry, dishes, etc.

    Helping out is fine, but you need time off too. If she thinks you should do more, she's being unreasonable.

    By the way...if she were a stay at home mom, SHE should be doing all the household chores. That's a part of being a stay at home mom. I did it with 2 kids, she only has 1. Take advantage of nap times. Time management is key. When you get home from work, you could take care of your daughter to give your wife some down time.

    Source(s): Life experience.
  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    take one day and do nothing. Tell your wife you need time to yourself. She may only work part time outside your home, but she has your daughter the other times. Things are not always 50 50, in fact they are somedays 20 80. talk to your wife and tell her you need some time to yourself

  • 9 years ago

    I think the woman should take care of inside tasks and the man should do outside stuff.

    And feeling the need to jump everytime your family says so because they are demanding is another issue and you guys need to address this shty RIGHT NOW.

  • 9 years ago

    She is home more - she should pick up an additional chore here or there so you can all have more family time on your days off.

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