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Definitely. Though it is not the main gist of making a marriage work, but it is part of the elements that can help a marriage to work.

Before marriage, the couple live separately. They have their mothers, or their fathers at home to do all the household job. They as children may not have to handle any of their parents' household matters. To these couples, their love life had been watching movies, shopping and dinning and even vacations. It is only after the couples are married that they had to manage their own home, and their own family once the kids come.

As first time married couples, nothing had been experienced, nothing had been learned. Who knows how it is like to live with your husband or your wife for the first time? Most people would not have laid down 'rules' or did a duty roster like what we did in schools. It is definitely a 'common sense' thing when it comes to such simple things like doing housework. However, it is a fact that such 'common sense' and such simple things are the most often neglected things that are overlooked by men, those husbands around.

When there is no children, housework is still manageable, even though it is rather unfair for the wife who always have to do the additional job - even though the wife is working as well. However, for a wife who is not working, doing the housework will of course be without saying her job. But consider a working wife, she works the same hours as the husband. Sometimes she works even longer than the husband and get lesser pay than the husband (since women are mostly paid lesser than men). In addition, women have the monthly menstrual cycle, which makes them tired and need more rest after a day of work. However, given the kind of husband who do not share any housework from the day they married, what kind of family bliss is there? This is the kind of understanding which men do not even give to his women! Women don't feel love and being cared for! While husband can watch TV, eat crackers and talk over the phone with his friends, the wife who come back from work, have to do housework first - laundry, mop the floor, clear the dining table, and so on. Even after dining, the wife have to clear the dining table. The husband just walks away! When told, the husband is not happy, the 'traditional' old-thinking of the husband says that men should not do housework. That is not a man should do! What kind of logic is that? Then women should stay at home and the men should go out to work to support the wife!

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