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Spouse bashing makes my stomach hurt

Submitted by Anhata on Fri, 01/13/2006 - 2:56pm.

My DH is an amazing person and works so hard around the house and on his job, and he's so good to me and to DD that I actually sometimes feel guilty for getting upset with him when he's (legitimatly) exasperating or just flat out wrong. I respect him so much and honor all the hard work he does and his devotion to our family and home that it actually hurts me to hear other women bashing their spouses. If it's a legitimate complaint, venting is fine (nodding to jennye) but spouse bashing is damaging to relationships and to the family.

If there's a problem, deal with it in a way that respects the humanity of everyone. Dissing husbands in a magazine...who or what does that help?

Why are the 180 ladies pissed, by the way? I've looked around the website and read how the founders were frustrated with their husbands and "pissed" in general...say, huh? I don't get it. From the very little they let you read of the articles, the mom writers sound angry, resentful, even militant. There's something else going on there.

Is this some backlash against having had a professional career and then when they decide they want to put that on hold to raise a family they resent the changes or adjustments that everyone has to make (or don't make)? Because they were unprepared for what is was to be an at home mother? Again, I don't get it.

Anhata
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