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...traveling to Omaha, Neb., the other two days, Bob stays home to care for the kids and do the cleaning. For the past eight years he has scrubbed the floors, done the laundry and cooked dinner. "So many of my friends complain about their husbands not contributing to housework," Janet says. "But my job is to work five days a week, and Bob does just about everything else. I'm very spoiled...
...lucky. When she and Bob escaped the big city in 1996 in order to raise their children in the country, they agreed that one of them should stay home. Because her firm allowed telecommuting, Janet opted to keep her job. At first Bob had to be coaxed into housework. Janet would make him lists of chores, but that didn't go over well. "I felt like a dictator. Bob would tense up every time I told him what to do," she recalls. "He would see me around the house and say, 'Why can't you do more?' It took...
While the Nelson household arrangement is unusual, it is nonetheless a sign of the times. Slowly, reluctantly, housework, the grubby stepchild of family responsibilities, is being adopted by men and shared a bit more equitably by couples. "There are few households in which [the division of labor] can be called equal," says Susan Strasser, author of Never Done: A History of American Housework, "but it's certainly the case that men do much, much more housework than they did 30 years ago." New data from the Labor Department show that among married men and women ages 25 to 54, women...
Since his wife Kame's death seven years ago, at 93, he has done all the housework himself. He rejected his children's suggestion to come live with them because, he explains, "I enjoy my freedom." Although his doctors insist Toguchi is in excellent health, the farmer takes no chances. "If he feels that something is wrong," says his daughter Sumiko Sakihara, 74, "even in the middle of the night, he calls a taxi and goes to the hospital." But he doesn't want the other villagers to worry, so, she says, "he writes a note explaining where...
...really freeing to just focus on the solution and clear out all the muck," says Meredith. Weiner-Davis encourages couples to identify what they want the marriage to look like, then list actions they can take--dinner out once a week, playing tennis or golf together, help with the housework--to achieve those goals. "The concept of real giving is so simple, but it really gets at the heart of how to make a relationship work," says Meredith...