The thing about children is that when you're pregnant, you think you're going to have a baby. When they are born, you realize it's a person. I look at my children, sometimes, and marvel that they are themselves completely apart from any nurturing influence. All my good schooling has been blown to pieces: I believe in nature.
You can tell me then whether or not there is something in nature that creates the gender divide which brings about situations like this: as I make breakfast for myself and the two children, my husband makes his own breakfast. (In the same amount of time.) While I dress myself and the two children, my husband dresses himself. (In the same amount of time.) Of course, I adore him, and he is perfect as he is, I'm just pointing out what seems to me to be a great mystery. Have you noticed this before?
I suppose, and in my world I'd agree, that this men are from mars business doesn't suit anyone's full humanity. But by observation, it seems to be more true than before children, that men and women are not exactly the same.
Have any of you other wise, liberated women of the world come across such a mystery?
In some cases it's much more extreme. In the time that it takes me to get up, feed and clothe myself and my 1 child, feed the cats, start a load of laundry, and get us out the door to school/work, my husband has occasionally managed to read the entire paper, but not eat or get dressed.
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Truly a remarkable thing.
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