http://www.patrickwardphd.com Patrick Ward, Marriage and Family Therapist, Enriching Lives and Building Relationship Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:42:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2008/10/22/household-labor-are-you-pulling-your-weight/ http://www.patrickwardphd.com/2008/10/22/household-labor-are-you-pulling-your-weight/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:20:26 +0000 Patrick Ward http://67.15.157.12/~patrickw/?p=86 Picture a husband and wife in their late thirties, let’s call them Bill and Marie.  Bill and Marie both work and have two school-aged kids. Bill’s workday is usually finished first, so he picks up the kids on his way home.  When he gets home, Bill often chills out on the couch reading the mail while his kids watch cartoons until supper. When Marie gets home she hurriedly starts preparing dinner and puts another load of laundry in the wash while looking through the kids papers from school.  She’ll often plop a load of clean laundry in front of Bill so he can fold it, which he’ll do if the cartoons don’t grab his attention. Continue

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