by Rubab Hamdani

Created on: July 25, 2009   Last Updated: July 26, 2009

A marriage is all about sharing. Whenever two people get married, on an unconscious level they are accepting that from this day onward they are going to share each and every aspect of their life with one another. Life after marriage poses many challenges for the couple. There is not a single set recipe to keep your marriage healthy but at the core of every marriage is sharing and love. you will have to try and find ways to share and divide your duties, chores ans responsibilities.

One of the biggest challenges that any couple faces after they are married is the sharing of household chores. Most of the times men have this perfect model of a wife in their mind, who is going to take over the house and turn it into a perfect catalogue home. They kid themselves into thinking that someone else is going to take care of their food, health, laundry, their clothes will be neatly folded for them, their suitcases will be neatly packed by this Patient wife of theirs before going on a trip and in short they selfishly think that their every need will be taken care of. Well !this dream of theirs doesn't survive even the first week of marriage, as they wake up next to a sleeping wife in a lone cottage , at some enchanted island many many miles away from home. For two minutes a man might fool himself in thinking that now that I am awake, she is going to get up and bring me breakfast, but the person sleeping next to them has gone through a whirl wind of activities and after a tiring night, wants to slumber on and on. This orientation or a sneak peak into their future life is essential for men, in order to rest all those preconceived delusional thoughts about marital bliss, at the cost of women. Atleast this is what men expect in this part of the world i.e Asia, although things are rapidly changing for the better.

Usually we enter into a marriage with a perfect model of married life in our minds but things are not always what one expects them to be. In the modern era where women are working side by side with men and share household expenses with men, it is not practical to impose all the tedious house hold chores on women. Both husband and wife should share duties and contribute in their daily house hold chores. By sharing these chores you can actually have fun and use this time to strengthen your relationship with each other.

Our lives are so busy nowadays that one should cash on any opportunity to spend time together. Working around the house may sound boring but if

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