"Housewife"

[cd_in_de]

Does anybody else have the desire to be a "housewife" for a woman?
By "housewife" I don't just mean sitting at home looking pretty.
This includes all the work involved in keeping up a home (chores, errands, cooking, etc.).

[Erika_bagels]

I actually prefer my wife to be one, but that's just me. Funny how into traditional gender roles I am at first glance. The only household chore I do unbidden is cooking.

[heatherb]

I'm retired and my wife still works. That makes me the housewife.

[darla_g]

that's a bit of an antiquated notion. the women in my life that i have had a relationship prefer it when the housework is shared. It is neither woman's work or that of a housewife.

[Erika_bagels]

Call us old-fashioned, but one morning I came home and she'd cleaned the whole house, and says to me, "you know, I really like just being the housewife." It's like the only way she can relax is through cleaning, so I let her.I don't look down on it as "woman's work," heavens no. I just work long hours, she doesn't, so she does most of the chores to pass the time.

(however, since the newborn came, I'm mr. housewife. I should have pointed this out. I take care of her while she breastfeeds. He's a slow eater, so she's kinda immobilized 24/7. Would if I could grow mammaries to share that chore, too)

I'm sorry, I seem to have hijacked this thread. *steps off soapbox*...

[Samantha Scott]

I sort of am the current housewife. My wife works full time while I stay home and take care of our daughter and do all the house work, shopping and cooking.....and I still have to do the yard as well. All I need now are the girl clothes and to join a mothers group.

[Sophie86]

I'm the stay-at-home parent in our family. I take care of the kids, homeschool them, and drive them to their extra-curricular activities. I also do the laundry, the dishes, and the other household chores with some help from the kids, and occasionally from my wife. My wife does most of the cooking because she enjoys it more, and is better at it, but I do the prep work--cutting up the veggies and the meat.

I love being here with the kids, but I hate doing housework. The one goes with the other, though, so I do it. I've told my wife that I'd enjoy it a lot more if I could dress like June Cleaver every day. :)

[Samantha Scott]

I've told my wife that I'd enjoy it a lot more if I could dress like June Cleaver every day. :)

If June Cleaver is the all American housewife, does this mean I have to dress like the all Australian housewife?

160033

[Inna]

I totally love engaging in organizing and making home a smooth running, clean and safe environment it always should be. Since my HRT I have become even more desiring of such important role and I think my prayers have been answered. After talking with my sister and her hubby we sort of agreed that because my sister is tired of her position of Household CEO, she would not mind giving up such responsibilities in place of fun job and electing me to the responsibility, knowing how I can improve and manage above.
I would love this, and would feel fulfilled and desired for whom I truly am.
I so hope to go there soon!

[Erika_bagels]

If June Cleaver is the all American housewife, does this mean I have to dress like the all Australian housewife?

160033
LMAO
Or you could be the All-Brit Housewife,
http://images.bookcrossing.com/images/journalpics/102/71/10259271.jpg

[kristinacd55]

I'm learning.....also "retired" here but not doing all the housework but am working towards doing it all. And, btw I love it :)

[CarlaWestin]

I'd switch roles with my stay at home wife in a heartbeat. Of course I'd embellish the situation with pearls, heels and a smart housekeeping dress like June Cleaver. Oh yeah!!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Ys1CM2JDwo/TcYWa8WBacI/AAAAAAAAAT4/Zpmw47Rk64A/s320/June%2BCleaver.jpg

[Angie G]

I'd love it full time.I do it part time how and love it hun.:hugs:
Angie

[Sophie86]

LMAO
Or you could be the All-Brit Housewife,

She looks a bit like Benny Hill in drag. :heehee:

Who is she, and who's the Australian lady?

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I love June's look, but I'd have to have a lot more dresses before I'd be willing to risk getting dirt, food, or bleach stains on one of mine doing stupid housework. :heehee:

[Miranda09]

Absolutely...........NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you kiddin?????????? I guess I'm just more career oriented.

[Samantha Scott]

...and who's the Australian lady?

Dame Edna Everage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Edna_Everage who is actually Barry Humphies in everyday life. "Humphries has regularly updated Edna, originally a drab Melbourne, Australia housewife satirising the conservatism of Australian suburbia, the character adopted an increasingly outlandish wardrobe after being performed in London in the 1960s, and grew in stature and popularity."

[Pythos]

Hmmmm, this could be fun every now and then, but she would have to like me in my version of a "French maid" outfit. :P

[Debglam]

My wife and I have flip-flopped jobs and careers over the years and she is the primary breadwinner now. I happen to hate my current job and would stay home and keep house in a minute!!!! In a minute!

June Cleaver. . .you bet ya! I've always said that when I grew up I wanted to be Ward Cleaver. I just happen to want to look like June some of the time!:D

[Karren H]

Not really. I want to be the woman who hires a maid to do all my work!!

[sissystephanie]

As a widower I don't have any choice! I have to be the "housewife," or the work doesn't get done! That said, I will add that if two people are living together they should always share the household duties!! Those duties were not meant for women(GG's) only!!

[Cynthia Anne]

that's a bit of an antiquated notion. the women in my life that i have had a relationship prefer it when the housework is shared. It is neither woman's work or that of a housewife.
I love that attitude! I agree! But I live alone, so that makes me my own housewife!! i think!

[Sophie86]

Not really. I want to be the woman who hires a maid to do all my work!!

Can I get an 'amen'?

[VioletJourney]

I think it's kinda chauvinistic to equate women with housework. Doing stuff like cooking or cleaning wouldn't make me feel any more or less feminine.

[cd_in_de]

I sort of am the current housewife. My wife works full time while I stay home and take care of our daughter and do all the house work, shopping and cooking.....and I still have to do the yard as well. All I need now are the girl clothes and to join a mothers group.

What you have is my ideal. I am jealous. lol


Hmmmm, this could be fun every now and then, but she would have to like me in my version of a "French maid" outfit. :P

I like the idea of being a housewife in a "French maid" outfit.

[Erika_bagels]

She looks a bit like Benny Hill in drag. :heehee:

Who is she, and who's the Australian lady?
Benny Hill here is Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced bouquet) from BBC Britcom "Keeping up Appearances". She's a dreadfully stuffy old bat, and reminds me of my mother.

[cd_in_de]

I think it's kinda chauvinistic to equate women with housework. Doing stuff like cooking or cleaning wouldn't make me feel any more or less feminine.

It could be viewed as reverse chauvinistic that I'd love being a "housewife". But, in all reality, that is never gonna happen.

[Sophie86]

Benny Hill here is Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced bouquet) from BBC Britcom "Keeping up Appearances". She's a dreadfully stuffy old bat, and reminds me of my mother.

Looked the show up on YouTube, and watched a bit. Pretty funny. :)

[Vickie_CDTV]

Does anybody else have the desire to be a "housewife" for a woman?
By "housewife" I don't just mean sitting at home looking pretty.
This includes all the work involved in keeping up a home (chores, errands, cooking, etc.).

I sincerely would like to keep house for a GG and be the "housewife" (and stay at home parent.) It is an ideal situation for me, given my desire for a role reverse relationship and my "submissive" nature.

However, given the permanent downsizing of our lives going on in the US, I fear the days when a household could survive on one income (even with no kids) are just about gone :(

[Persephone]

I sort of am the current housewife. My wife works full time while I stay home and take care of our daughter and do all the house work, shopping and cooking.....and I still have to do the yard as well. All I need now are the girl clothes and to join a mothers group.

Like Samantha, after our son was born my spouse went back to work and I became the homemaker (a title I prefer to "housewife," after all, I didn't marry a house). I did that for about 20 years; laundry, cleaning, shopping, running errands, preparing our meals, planning our social calendar, being the carpool Mom (en drab), and the hundreds of other details that go into being "Mom," running a home and raising a family.

I did become a member of the dominant mother's group in my son's grade, working with the other moms to do the magazine drives, the school carnivals, the field trips, the fund raisers, and the volunteering to help serve the school lunches. We were a pretty close group, so we generally lunched together nearly every day and planed parties and get togethers for our families. We shopped together and supported each other.

Sometimes you knew one of the other women was looking for something and if you found it in a store, especially if it was on sale, you'd call her and ask her if she wanted you to pick it up for her. We laughed together.

And sometimes we cried together. We were there for each other on those bad days and when things fell apart. When the husband of my best friend in the group decided to divorce her I was the one who was there for her when she needed to talk. I'd be there when she needed to go out and have a drink, and I was the one who held her hair while she threw up in the parking lot. We're still the best of friends.

Hugs,
Persephone.

[Stephanie47]

As the retiree and my wife still working, it is only fare that I assume most of the domicile duties. That means I do the vacuuming, washing (not hers), ironing, baking, most of the cooking and watching the Today Show. Of course all this is done in a pretty dress, high heels, stockings, wigs and apron. I just wish I did not have to take off everything before she comes home!

[pantiesplease]

If I could stay home I would. It gives me more time to dress up. :)

[Kate Simmons]

Actually I'd prefer to have someone else do the work so I could make like Peg Bundy and sit around watching soaps and eating bon-bons all day.:battingeyelashes::heehee:

[lauraabdl]

I guess you could call me a housewife, although I live alone now days, but I do dress the part every day and do all the housework and all the yardwork.:D

[shawnatex]

I would LOVE to be a housewife!!!!

[pinto]

yes i desire to be a housewife with all my heart. sounds funny but cleaning, washing, laundry - yes i would love to that as a housewife. hopefully it will come true one day.

[RADER]

I have become THE house wife since my wife became Handy-Caped. I do all the cooking, laundry,
cleaning, shopping etc. I just wish I could wear a dress all the time. I usually wear Fem Jeans,
because of not wanting my nice dresses to get dirty. I do wear a skirt when I can, but I do not
leave the house in a skirt or dress. I am under-dressed most of the time, with a bra about 75%
and panties 24/7.

[Karren H]

I think it's kinda chauvinistic to equate women with housework. Doing stuff like cooking or cleaning wouldn't make me feel any more or less feminine.

Funny you would think that but when ever I try to help doing household chores my wife always says "stop trying to do my work... Go do your own!!". I think she's afraid I'd do a coup d'etat or something? Push her out of the female roil!! Lol.

[t-girlxsophie]

I do my fair share of the housework,more so now that my Wife is not too well.It does seem like less of a chore when En Femme.On the other hand give me DIY or electrical stuff to do and I'm clueless LOL always been that way

Sophie

[Sophie86]

Funny you would think that but when ever I try to help doing household chores my wife always says "stop trying to do my work... Go do your own!!". I think she's afraid I'd do a coup d'etat or something? Push her out of the female roil!! Lol.

My wife hates housework even more than I do, which is a LOT. Back before we ever moved in together, she made sure that she wasn't going to get saddled with that female role. Even now, if she has to spend more than an hour cleaning, she develops a Cinderella complex. lol. One of the worst fights we had in the early years of our marriage was the time I had to leave her at home doing housework, because I had Christmas shopping to do at the mall. She told me to bring her back a cookie from the Cookie Factory. When I got back, I had completely forgotten it. OMG! She was so pissed. I didn't get it at first, but now it's become a thing with us. When people have been working hard, they have got to have their cookie. Or ELSE!! :heehee:

[celeste26]

Its all work, "house work" is just unpaid work. (and usually under appreciated)

[Bootsiegalore]

Does anybody else have the desire to be a "housewife" for a woman?
By "housewife" I don't just mean sitting at home looking pretty.
This includes all the work involved in keeping up a home (chores, errands, cooking, etc.).

I do all that stuff..... Shop Cook clean....

[Natalie D]

As I live on my own now, I am a housewife I suppose. My ex always used to say I'd make someone a good wife. She never new the full extent of my cross dressing and femininity. I like the idea of a french maids outfit :) I may have to treat myself :)

[Cassandra Lynn]

I love good food and can do fairly good things with food and the bonus is that i enjoy it, it's a wonderful way to de-stress for me. Since i'm a bonified neat freak anyway that is a plus.
Dishwashers are for doing dishes and i would think most homes today have them, a person would have to be pretty damned lazy to not rinse off a dish and place in the machine.
I've been doing my own laundry for years so i wouldn't have any issues doing hers, provided she would be ok with that.

Let's see now where was i going with all this?

Oh yeah, i'm in the same boat as Vickie, would be thrilled to live in a somewhat role reversed relationship, as long as i still get to go out and 'play' man regularly.

[RADER]

I Just thought of something: I built Houses for 40 years. So I guess I have done a lot of house work
in my time.
Rader

[Ghathika]

I am a full time house wife I guess as a single parent, just a girl friend, but I am also a full time mother to two boys that are mine. I also work full time. I love it all. :)

[suchacutie]

I'm with Karren...hire a maid, but there is no reason not to do the few tasks you really enjoy, and then you get to spend a whole lot of time doing things together! There are a lot of things to be done with a French Maid outfit, meanwhile :)

tina

P.S. although I must admit it's easier to dust the higher places in 6" platforms, so Tina does those kinds of tasks! :)

[5150 Girl]

I'm a house wife. My Polar Bear is to sick to do a whole lot arround the house

[erickka]

I already do. My wife and I both work hectic schedules, and not having any children (by God's choice) we have no one to pick up the slack. It is whoever has the time available to do whichever chore that gets to do it. Actually I don't mind it one bit even when in male mode.

[Tina B.]

I'm not really a housewife, but I play one at home! Another retired one, with a working wife. She has never been a housewife, but always has worked outside the home, so for years we shared the load. Now that I'm retired, I've picked up a larger share of the load, and now do most of the cleaning and cooking, she does like working in the yard, so I like to see that she has the time to do that on her days off. I don't see being a housewife, or womens work as being any less than working, A true housewife works at home, and is paid, she is usually the spender and controller of most of the money that comes into the home. It's the guy that goes home and hands over the pay check that is not getting paid. As far as womens work, if one person goes out and earns the income, while the other stays at home and maintains the house and family, and it's a women doing it, it's womans work, if dad does it, then it's man's work, but it all goes to the family and both roles are really important, especially while raising kids. Most of us that did it with both partners working, would loved to have Had someone at home to do all that womens work, and most would not care if it where done by a women or a man, just somebody else.

[Carol Elizabeth]

Work - all work - is honorable. It's just that some work pays better than other work.

Long ago (not really that long ago) one income supported a household. That usually was the male figure because there were certain tasks, ex: breast feeding the children, that the male simply wasn't able to do. In addition, many of the household appliances that speed up household chores simply were not yet invented. (Yes, all this has occured in my lifetime.) There was (is) a great need for these chores to be performed, so by default, the female figure usually got stuck doing them.

So much for the past.

Today, I provide 2/3rds of our monthly income. The funny thing is that I am retired. (My wife hates that!) However, since I am at home while she is out in the work a day world, I do the household chores. She is OK with that because she doesn't really like doing them herself. As a consolation prize, I do the chores dressed in the "traditional" model to help make the work more palatable. It's a trade off, but we all learn to compromise along the way.

CE

[Sophie86]

A true housewife works at home, and is paid, she is usually the spender and controller of most of the money that comes into the home. It's the guy that goes home and hands over the pay check that is not getting paid.

Yeah, I got the housework, but I didn't get control of the finances. It's just as well though. She's much better with money than I am.

[Loni]

i do not have to dream about being the house wife...other than no spouse. i am the house wife.
i cook, clean and do the yard as loni. so as the saying goes.

been there. done that.

but to be loni full time would be different. aka do the food shopping at the local store, etc.

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