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Yeah, I think with a minor revision, that one would be okay. Just like, if you're a stay-at-home mom or something, when your husband gets home, holler out to him, greet him, let him know where you are, you know, let him know he's welcome to be home, something like that.
My ex-wife was a stay-at-home wife, and when I got home she would say, "Hey" to me and it was nice to be greeted when I got home.
Yeah, that's much more reasonable. Basically, "Show your partner you care that they're there".
In the 1920s... moms were not "stay at home moms" they were "housewives." There is a difference. Men were not expected to assist in the house... nor in the parenting unless there was discipline to be meted out.
I was a young child in the 1960s and was put to bed right after we had a family dinner at 7 pm. My contact with my father involved welcoming him home (literally jumping from the top of the stairs in our split level) and having dinner in my nightgown at the kids table and kissing every one goodnight and going to sleep... and that was on the the nights he came home at a decent hour.
My mother was responsible for the house upkeep, laundry, meals, food and she did extra little jobs for such luxuries as a new wash machine, a piece of furniture, our doctor and dentist bills and keeping the home in cigarettes and scotch. Because if they were not there.... she had hell to pay from Dad. Occasionally, she would have to write a check for them for which he berated her for.