Why do husbands think their wives don't do anything?

Answer 1

I have to say many men do not think that way.

I think staying at home is more impressive than working because its a hard job unto itself.

Answer 2

The only people I hear this from are stay at home moms--so I'm assuming that's your situation. It's hard to know, because your question is so general. I think MOST husbands realize that their wives do, in fact, work very hard. Even the husbands whose wives stay at home to raise their children. However, some do not realize that rearing children and managing a household is work. And, lets face it, there were days when my children were little that he'd come home from work, the same dishes were in the sink, the same laundry was on the sofa waiting to be folded, at first glance it would look like NOTHING had been done that day. Of course, the dishes in the sink weren't the same ones, they were new ones, same with the laundry on the sofa. Plus I had spent untold hours changing diapers, feeding, dressing, etc., etc., etc., all those child care chores that are largely invisible.

Make a list of what you do during the day--and be brutally honest with it. If you sit down from 10-10:30 to have a cup of coffee and watch a little Springer, then put that on there. Then show him the list...that SHOULD shut him up. It did my husband.

Answer 3

It is mainly due to lack of the unknown as well as being a controlling personality.

They are not aware of all that has to be done and how long or difficult it maybe to get it done until they have to do it.

I tried to break my spouse of that when I said maybe your right. Maybe I'm not as quick or good at it as you are. Why don't you do it from now on and I'll watch and take some notes on it.

Like grocery shopping , he would get so upset that I was spending too much on food for a family of 4. So I told him that he should take over in that area and I gave him a list of things I needed, he did for a week or two and came back shocked. He spent more than I did.

They think they have all the answers to everything and the female knows very little and does very little till they have to wear the shoes.

Then there was the time that he thought we were going through too much toilet paper, so I put the toilet paper on the endangered list and told him that he was allowed only to use the maximum of 3 sheets per day or I would have to put a trash can in the bathrooms and pay a visit to the farm store for some dried corn cobs to be placed in a basket near his toilet.

He still tries to control everything, and sometimes I have to get into it with him to get him to stop. He always thinks that he has the answers and everything I mean everything should be done in a certain way.
To make a long story short...he is still learning .

Answer 4

Depends on the circumstances. A lot of times, the wives really don't do anything, they have maids and people to watch the kids, and people to cook for them. They contribute nothing, then they get a divorce and expect half of everything. Thats bunk, I could see if they had even a part time job or something and contributed, but they don't deserve a damn dime. Now if they are full time mommy's thats a different story. They do watch the kids and clean the house and make the meals. That is something. It might be jealousy that the men have to go to work everyday and the wives get to spend time with the children?

Answer 5

Maybe yours doesn't but I think my wife does a great job. Shes a teaching assistant studying to get a degree so she can be a qualified teacher, she's a school governor, she looks after the kids, runs the house and copes when I am away working.

My wife works really hard and I appreciate everything she does.

I'd find out WHY your husband thinks that way.

Answer 6

SOme wives dont do anything and some husbands dont. However some men dont respect their wives and so they think things like that./

Answer 7

Probably because when the husbands are out at work the wife cleans up and stuff behind the husbands back and when he comes home he doesn't relies what the wife has done


Wow I'm only young i i think that was a pretty good answer! :)

Answer 8

Not all husbands think like that, I know my wife does a lot and I always thank her for everything she does. She works, watches the children, cooks, clean, wash clothes, and take care of me. I work two jobs, and I am not working I cook, clean, give her a massage, give her a break, let her sleep. She not all men are the same, just ask my wife!!! BD

Answer 9

My exhusband was like that...I finally realized he did that to make himself feel better for being a drunken, lazy piece of sh!t.
It was horrible, I work fulltime even at times had a PT job as well, but I had put in well over 50 hirs one week. He was out of town. But I still wanted to accomplish my goal if getting the carpets cleaned, we had our own steam cleaner. So I cleaned the house that friday night, got up early Sat and got to work. I worked all day. He came home around 4 that afternoon. I was on my knees with a brush, scrubbing out the stains on the stairs. He came in and up the stairs tracking mud with each step. I was shocked, when I said something to him to please take off his boots. He turned to me and told me it was my f*ing problem and continued down the cleaned hall and into our cleaned BR. I was dumbfounded. What do you say to the person who's supposed to love you, but could still be so thoughtless and hateful? When I tried to talk about it later that evening, He couldn't even appologize and proceeded to tell me that he works his @ss off and that I never did anything around the house. It was the beginning of the end, when it should have been just the end.

Answer 10

The same reasons that wives who don't work out of the home see their husbands job as his time to "be with people and socialize".

Answer 11

Let the man stay home for a week and take care of the household. Let him do all the cleaning, cooking, shopping, laundry and child rearing. He will be down on his knees thanking you for all that you do. Granted I am sure there are some women that may not carry their weight and sit on their butt during the day. But I would say that most don't.