petdave -> RE: Does anyone else here seek a male wife? (4/11/2007 5:39:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: AAkasha * Lack of ladder climbing. If you are not in a career, you will not have the same satisfaction of accomplishment, unless you pat yourself on the back each time you get a load of laundry done. ... * Lack of intellectual growth. What will you be learning? What new challenges come from picking up your wife's dry cleaning, organizing her shoe closet or clipping coupons for the grocery store visit? i still haven't had the opportunity to be a stay-at-home housepet, but that is the thing i desire most out of life... A lot of your issues have to do with the nature of the individual... while i can see the peer pressure/ambition/social interaction/"being a man" as issues for some people, they all mean less than nothing to me (though i'll admit that i'm fairly damaged). As for finding personal satisfaction and knowledge, though... i can't imagine a better scenario. Since i can do a half-assed job of keeping house even when i'm not in it for 50-odd hours a week, i can only dream of the opportunities that being home would give for self-improvement, learning, and accomplishments that actually mean something to me (as opposed to accomplishments at work, which are fleeting at best). i've got a stack of books and literally hundreds of PC bookmarks on building things- carpentry, metal casting, blacksmithing, gardening, computer programming, laying fiberglass, small engine repair, painting... i can't imagine being bored by free time, at least not for the first ten or twenty years [:)] Hell, if i retired now, it would probably take me five years just to get through my current "honeydo" list! ...dave
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