This ^^^

Housewives are the most annoying thing in the world. And using the whole 'being a mother is the hardest job' is just an excuse for saying, 'I'm lazy and can't handle what normal, working women do on a daily basis.' Women who think they deserve to stay home like a bum while their husbands work 15 hours a day to support the lazy beeyotch are just pathetic. Women in third world countries work out in fields sunrise to sunset with a baby strapped to their backs. Get a job and pay for your own shopping spree, you greedy, lazy *****. Your husband was completely right in saying what he said.

Being a mother and a housewife is a very tiring job. You wake up at sun up and work as a maid for a (generally) ungrateful household. Then you turn around and you're a chef and a waitress three times a day, plus an A La Carte when children want a snack. You're a taxi service, running people to and from locations, you're an errand boy doing the grocery shopping, paying the bills, balancing the checkbook, taking care of the lawn, dropping clothing off at the dry cleaners only to later pick it up, you're a laundress cleaning all of the clothing, and you have to make sure all of this is done by the time your husband gets home from work, and dinner has to be on the table. Then you're running after your children to get them to do their homework. The ability to do all of that, keep the household steady, and the relationship between husband and wife unstrained while both parents work is almost impossible. Not completely, but almost. And people that do it are commendable, but don't knock the people that don't do it, and choose one or the other because the same can be said about working mothers who don't take care of their family. They're lazy, greedy ****** who only care about money rather than the upkeep of their home and the well being of their children. Working at home as a housewife and a mother is just as tiring and trying as working at a job that actually pays you for what you do when you do, and at least when you have a job outside of the home you can GO home and shut off. Housewives don't get paid, all they have to rely on after all the work THEY do at HOME is their husband's good graces, and hope they can get a little something in return for the work they do too.

I think being a housewife/mother is a REAL job and I respect both women who choose to do that, and the women who choose to have work(have a career, etc). But I hate when people sit there and complain about it. Yes, I understand pointing out the difficulties of being a stay at home parent, but sometimes it just sounds like whining/complaining/bitching/etc, it's a choice, and you CHOSE to be a stay at home parent, that means accepting all the hard work and possible complications that come with it(like raising children). Also, there are plenty of working parents that contribute to the home life as well. That includes a paycheck, ALONG(key word) with doing chores, helping raise the children, etc. BOTH partners should help each other out. It makes no sense for one parent to shoulder the burden entirely on their own. It should be a partnership. Edit: this goes to both genders, I just used women as an example, but there are dad that are stay at home parents.

Stay at home moms AND dads are my hero.

amh721, please tell me you're a troll and don't actually feel that way. I went back to work because being a stay at home mom sucked so bad. You never get a rest and it's SOOOO tedious.

92, does your husband do ANYTHING around the house at all, or does he just come from work, eat his dinner, stare at the TV and go off to bed? Why can't he go pay the bills or mow the lawn and balance the checkbook? That doesn't sound super complicated, as for me. You're not obliged to do all the housework, you just took it upon yourself and are complaining now.