House husbands

[Ralph Masters]

I love being a house husband, all that's missing is a house and a spouse

 

[Upchuck]

I'm not trolling or bickering, I said my piece clearly and, prehaps rather too, flatly. I think it's unnatural. Good luck to the OP but house husbands do divide opinion.

 

[tarannau]

Only in your tiny little mind.

Where's the disagreement here? There's just a succession of people, of all genders and ages, queuing up to call you an idiot.

 

[TheDave]

I'm not trolling or bickering, I said my piece clearly and, prehaps rather too, flatly. I think it's unnatural. Good luck to the OP but house husbands do divide opinion.

I find that highly unlikely.

 

[Ralph Masters]

I'm not trolling or bickering, I said my piece clearly and, prehaps rather too, flatly. I think it's unnatural. Good luck to the OP but house husbands do divide opinion.

so what's natural. or don't you know?

 

[Upchuck]

Well I gave my opinion. I didn't expect it to turn in to a mob attack.

 

[DotCommunist]

It seems people haven't really got thier head around the idea that social roles are not fixed in stone anymore. Did the last 20 years just pass these people by?

 

[TheDave]

Why there is nothing natural about being a home husband by Jan M ... Upchuck

 

[subversplat]

It's not a mother and baby group I go to, it's a nursery and it's quite good.

I think they feel sorry for me because as a man they see me as unemployed rather than a house husband. To be honest this is how I see myself as well, it is only this week I have been questioning it. They seem to assume I have it tough and even said I didn't need to bring in fruit (everyone brings in fruit to share) as there would be enough to go round.

I reckon you could probably wangle this so you can borrow the odd tenner here and there and make some cold hard cash out of people's prejudices

 

[spanglechick]

Upchuck, I'm surprised that you have such narrow views regarding gender roles. How does that relate to your sexuality. Do you support lesbian parents?



FWIW, my mum went to college full time when i was four, and my dad, as a fireman, was home more or less every day (certainly more than she was). I feel unspeakably priviledged to have had a relationship with my dad as nurturer and caregiver during really important years - something most people never have a chance to develop.

however, he did take me to my first day at infants in 1979, and the mothers at the gate assumed he must be a widower!!!

 

[Thora]

My mate says he feels like the mums think he's a nonce when he takes his daughter to nursery.

Think of the reaction men who work in childcare get.

 

[mentalchik]

Well I gave my opinion. I didn't expect it to turn in to a mob attack.

Just because a few people find your opinion odd/objectionable doesn't mean it's a mob attack.......


and stop being so ingenuous.......don't believe you didn't know exactly what sort of reaction throwing the word 'unnatural' into it would have.....