Is it normal to think men should wear skirts/dresses and do most of the housework
My husband lost his job a couple of years ago, he was out of work about 5 months. I was lucky enough to get extra hours to get us through this hard time with money. I went from doing 20 hours a week to 40+, but it meant he had to take on the housework, cooking and stuff all things I had always done. He was not happy to start with and did a rubbish job of it all, but after a few weeks he starts saying how easy it all is and how women have an easy time of it as housewives. I was angry at his attitude, he wasn't working and was still doing a rubbish job of it, which meant I had to redo a lot of what he did, and in the past I had done all of it and worked part time. He claimed I was just to fussy about stuff and the housework he did was fine. We rowed a lot and one Saturday I told him if it's all so easy for women I wanted him to live as one for a week. He claimed I was being pathetic, I was so angry at the time I told him if he didn't do this I wanted a divorce. I do think at the time I actually meant it as well, he must of realised this so agreed to it.
After agreeing he decides to ask what I meant, I think he thought he would wriggle out of it, but by now I was a woman on a mission. I stormed out the house and returned a couple of hours later having been shopping at the local charity shops. I dumped a pile of clothes on the table and told him to wash them as they are what he would be wearing for the next week. I'd even bought a pack of cheap knickers and a couple of cheap bras for him. I ordered him upstairs to teach him how to do make up, painted his nails and made him shave his legs and armpits. By the end of the day he knew exactly what I expected of him for the next week if he wanted to stay married.
He went through with what I asked and I told him he needed to continue living like this until he started doing housework to my standard. There was a rapid improvement and he went back to his man clothes the next week. The thing is I really liked it when he was wearing a short skirt with his smooth legs. I pushed him into continuing to shave his legs. His housework standards had improved and with it so had my mood and our sex life. I told him the sex was down to the smooth legs. I pushed him into wearing his skirts when we were at home together and bought him sexy lingerie to wear. I have since pushed the boundaries, he got another job but it is part time, I continued with my full time hours, he now wears lingerie full time, often wears skirts when he is not at work (at my insitance), and he does most of the housework. I on the other hand tend to laze around at weekends in a pair of jeans.
Men should wear skirts and dresses but women should do the housework | 1 | |
Men should be able to wear what they like | 12 | |
Men should wear skirts and dresses and do most of the housework | 6 | |
Men should not wear skirts and dresses | 0 | |
Men should not wear skirts and dresses but should do most of the housework | 1 | |
Men should dress in skirts/dresses if it's what their women like | 0 |