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May. 24, 2023

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CHORES NO MORE
Help! My Husband Finds Cleaning ‘Charming & Feminine’ ([link removed])

Our advice columnist Penelope is back today, with another edition of Ask A MWLTF ([link removed]) (yes, that’s a Mom Who Likes to F*ck). Today’s letter writer doesn’t sweat the small stuff around the house: “I’m a mother of three and I live in a house so I certainly do my fair share of domestic labor, but I do exactly the amount I can do without feeling resentful. Sometimes this means there is mess. If my husband and kids don’t like it, then they are free to add more elbow grease to the equation.”

But a recent comment by her husband has got her feeling a little weird. She passed along a comment she overheard from her sister-in-law — “You just have to set high standards. Mess is very triggering for me” — and she was surprised at his reaction: “He said with a slight, teasing smirk, that actually he didn’t find what she’d said ridiculous at all, that on the contrary he thought it was ‘kind of charming and very feminine.’”

Now she’s wondering: “Does the man I’ve chosen to spend my life with really equate housekeeping with feminine sex appeal?” See what Penelope says.

Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor
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The Day My Kid Can’t Forget, & Neither Can I ([link removed])

It’s one of those terrifying moments of parenthood: when you look up, and your toddler has slipped away. And today, Meg St-Esprit is talking about her experience: “I know that decades from now, when my four kids are out changing the world, I’ll still be able to vividly recall the panic I felt when I lost my 3-year-old daughter in a bustling crowd ([link removed]) — one of the absolute scariest experiences of my entire life. And neither of us are over it.” Read how it’s affected both of them.
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