'Your husband sounds like he wants a 1950s housewife': Wife works full-time remote job while taking care of 1-year-old, husband pressures her to do more around the house

The division of labor between members of a household can be hard to dileniate. There's money to be made, a house to be cleaned, and children to be reared. But who can do it all? But even when you do have a partner to share the load, how do you decide who does what, especially if you both work full-time (a reality for a large swath of couples)? And of course, there are gendered expectations about who does what. Women have long been expected to be in charge of home life, even if they also happen to work for money. 

That's the situation one couple found themselves in when one of them ended up with way more to do than the other. But how things unfolded left her feeling like she needed some outside input to prove that her husband's demands were unreasonable. Read on for the story and decide what you think. 

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