{"id":90586,"date":"2024-09-18T15:28:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T08:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/?p=90586"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T08:28:16","slug":"a-true-eye-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/a-true-eye-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"A true eye opener&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A TRUE EYE OPENER! \u2728\n<p>A friend came to my house for coffee, we sat down and talked about life. After a while I interrupted the conversation and said to him, <strong>\u2032\u2032I&rsquo;m going to wash the dishes, I&rsquo;ll be right back.\u201d\n<p>He looked at me like I told him he was going to build a spaceship. So he said to me with admiration and a little stumped, <strong>\u2032\u2032Glad you help your wife, I rarely help mine because when I do she never thank me. Last week I washed the floor and she didn&rsquo;t even tell me thank you.\u201d\n<p><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-90590 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/Help-wife.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"960\"' height='\"640\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Help-wife.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'><br>\nI sat back down with him again and explained to him that I don&rsquo;t \u2032\u2032help\u2032\u2032 my wife. Actually, my wife doesn&rsquo;t need help, she needs a partner, a teammate. I&rsquo;m her home partner\u2026 and due to that, all functions are divided, which is not \u201chelp\u201d with household chores.<br>\nI don&rsquo;t \u201chelp\u201d my wife clean the house, because I also live in it and I need to clean it too.<br>\nI don&rsquo;t \u201chelp\u201d my wife cook, because I also want to eat and I need to cook too.<br>\nI don&rsquo;t \u201chelp\u201d her washing dishes after eating, because I use these dishes too.<br>\nI don&rsquo;t \u201chelp\u201d my wife with kids, because they are mine too and it&rsquo;s my duty to be a father.<br>\nI don&rsquo;t \u201chelp\u201d my wife wash, extend, fold, and put away laundry, because it&rsquo;s mine and my kids too.<br>\nI don&rsquo;t give a \u201chelping hand\u201d at home, I&rsquo;m part of it.\n</p><p>Then with respect I asked my friend when was the last time after his wife finished cleaning the house, doing laundry, changing the bed sheets, bathing the kids, cooking, organizing, etc.. and did he say: \u201cthank you?\u201d\n</p><p>I mean a real thank you, like, \u201cWow, baby!! You&rsquo;re amazing!!&rdquo;\n</p><p><strong>Does this all seem absurd? Does it sound weird to you? When, once in your life, you cleaned the floor, you expected at least an excellence award with great glory&hellip; why? Haven&rsquo;t you ever thought about that?\n<p>Maybe, because for you, macho culture taught you that everything is a woman&rsquo;s task.<br>\nMaybe you&rsquo;ve been taught that all this should be done without you having to move a finger.\n</p><p>So praise her as you would like to be praised, likewise, with the same intensity. Hold her hand and behave like a true companion, and assume your part, don&rsquo;t behave like a guest who simply comes to eat, sleep, shower and satisfy sexual needs&hellip; feel at home, in your home.\n</p><p><strong>Change in our society begins in our homes, teaching our children the true sense of fellowship!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TRUE EYE OPENER! \u2728 A friend came to my house for coffee, we sat down and talked about life. After a while I interrupted the conversation and said to him, \u2032\u2032I&rsquo;m going to wash the dishes, I&rsquo;ll be right back.\u201d He looked at me like I told him he was going to build a\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642,855],"tags":[818],"class_list":{"0":"post-90586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story","8":"category-story","9":"tag-moral-touching-stories"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Help-wife.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90592,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90586\/revisions\/90592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p></strong></p>