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4th law of robotics

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Thu Sep 27, 2012, 01:17 PM Sep 2012

"I'm Sick Of My Unemployed Husband" [View all]

I can’t even remember when my husband stopped working.
And frankly, I don’t have time to think about it, between my full-time job and my fledgling business, volunteering at an after-school program to help teenagers prepare for the professional world and mothering two children.
But when I do think about it–when I think about all the times I come home to see evidence of his entire day’s activities cluttering the coffee table, or when I have to take our shared car to work and strand him at home because he doesn’t feel like getting up to drive me–I’m angry.
Why should he get everything, when I do everything?
. . .

Sometimes I think of getting divorced, but we live in Pennsylvania, which means legally he’ll likely be entitled to half of our assets from the marriage–half of my assets. I try so hard to be upbeat and not let this bother me, but on our last anniversary, I started telling him how I felt about his lack of contribution and motivation, and nothing has changed since then.


http://www.businessinsider.com/money-is-ruining-my-marriage-2012-9

Interesting turn about.

He stays at home taking care of the kids, cooking, cleaning etc. She is resentful and wants him to work but is horrified at the thought of losing half her assets in the divorce to this non-worker.

In other words the exact opposite of the usual story.

I suspect as the economy continues to shed jobs in traditionally male fields and we insist on ensuring fewer and fewer males go to college this will become a more common story.

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