Unfortunately, women tend to want partners, men want caregivers. Reminding him to care for his kids because he doesn't recognize how children as his responsibility is now a women's personality issue, rather than a man's personality issue. It's wild that a woman doing merely most of the care work and the full entirety of family organization from cleaning to meals has become something to look down on as a woman failing rather than men being irresponsible and not respecting their spouse.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You may be right in general, but none of that is a good excuse for a transactional sex life.

If I wanted to exchange services (labor) for sex, I could simply take the money earned from labor to purchase it from a prostitute. That is not what a marriage should be like.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol -3 points 10 months ago

I don’t think the kids pay you to clean up their puke or blowouts.

[–] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow. What an incredibly sexist comment.

[–] smotherlove@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's okay, they are only praising women while putting down men. That's above board in our society.

[–] MaoZedongers@lemmy.today 2 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

women tend to

I'm gonna stop you right there dawg

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

You are making a lot of sweeping generalizations that are wildly inaccurate. Some of those statements (hell, maybe all of them) may be true for certain socio-political subgroups of our society, but I absolutely do not agree that that’s the dynamic through which most heterosexual people view their partners (or more accurately, the idea of a partner).

You’re basically just regurgitating the “atomic family” ethos from back in the 1950s.

[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reminding him to care for his kids

by treating him like a kid will not help. Yes, making clear that you expect him to share the care work with you is important. Making rules together can be a way of doing it, but he needs to do it because he is the dad and her partner and a reasonable adult that takes their responsibilities serious, not because he wants a BJ at the end of the week. They both need couple therapy, because he isn't a responsible adult and she infantilizes him on top.

[–] WeeSheep@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I completely agree with this

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unfortunately, women tend to want partners, men want caregivers.

Thank you. Nobody's seeing that. All the comments saying the woman is mean, instead of talking about how irresponsible the man must be that he needs a reward system to do what he should be doing on his own* for his family.

*I'm not sure if it's the right expression. I mean by his own volition and out of responsibility.

Edit: I won't acknowledge the rest of your comment because, honestly, it got confusing.