“Mehn...my wife is really
getting on my nerves. I have tried many times not to raise my fist against
her...but I am not sure my patience would last longer. I don't know how you
handle this in your home ...but is a man supposed to be involved in house chores?
I mean washing dishes, doing laundry, scrubing and mopping, going to market,
sweeping, fetching water and all that...
For Gods sake, I work
tirelessly all day just to bring comfort to them. Yet, she still expects me to
join her in doing the house chores when I come back from work.
Precisely, the incidence
that made me rage was that...unusally, food was not ready after I have had my
shower and as a hungry man is an angry man...I requested for my food with a
loud voice...in short, I yelled for my food...Lo and behold, my wife in tears
was yelling back at me.."am I a slave in this house?, she lashed out and
immediately a feel of irritation at her response gushed in my system as I felt
like giving her an instant cure to her show of pathetic displeasure.
Yes, I was called from
work that our only son was down with fever in school, but I was in an important
board meeting that I couldn't go out of so I called her up to attend to the
child. But that was since 11am. So how does that connect or disconnect from my
meal by 9pm?
My wife continued
"You haven't even asked after the boy...how it went at the hospital and so
on, you are here screaming for food like a baby" I was mad at her...very
mad. "Look at the kitchen, the plates, the boy's clothes, the floor...everywhere
and everything is just unkept because you this man would not assist in
anyway...please stop all this noise you make of work work work...this house is
ours not mine" “I work too”
By this time, my hand was
up...to land on her idiotic face...if not for my son looking sick and I wouldn't want further drama. She told me
point-blank that I am not satisfying her
in any way. Then I started wondering what on earth she wanted that I had not
provided…what do women really want?
My mother in the village
never harrased my father to join her in the kitchen. It appears women of these
days are getting too lazy, over-sophisticated and pretentious. Haba.
Please tell me what business
I have with the house chores?
What's a man's place with
house chores?
What do Women really want
from men,when it comes to house chores?
