Oh, yeah, I was definitely being a little bit ironic there because of course it's not the usual state of affairs... but in the world LW's living in where women's housework isn't a political issue, it's how it *should* work!
(Although it's interesting because when I think about my aunts and uncles, there are certainly a lot of couples where the wife does way, way more of the work than her husband, and the husbands don't always pay attention, but if reminded of the work their wives do, they are generally performatively grateful about it! Maybe it's my grandma's influence - she was born in the 1920s but she was a Youngest Stepdaughter and had strong opinions about treating the people who do your housework well - or maybe it's a regional thing, where the local formulaic response to your wife complaining about housework is to say "And I am very, very grateful to you for doing it and I love you very much", sincerity variable.)
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(Although it's interesting because when I think about my aunts and uncles, there are certainly a lot of couples where the wife does way, way more of the work than her husband, and the husbands don't always pay attention, but if reminded of the work their wives do, they are generally performatively grateful about it! Maybe it's my grandma's influence - she was born in the 1920s but she was a Youngest Stepdaughter and had strong opinions about treating the people who do your housework well - or maybe it's a regional thing, where the local formulaic response to your wife complaining about housework is to say "And I am very, very grateful to you for doing it and I love you very much", sincerity variable.)