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When it comes to household chores, I take care of the housework, cooking, cleaning and laundry, and she takes care of everything else, like paying bills, running the business, collecting rent, etc.
Yes, that means I do a good deal more work time-wise, but I have more time. I only need about 6 hours sleep each night to her 8, and she typically works a 50-60 hour work week, and her job is much harder than mine. Add in that the three of us are all very neat, and there's very little housework to be done, maybe two hours daily and five or six on Saturday, leaving plenty of relaxation time. If there were kids involved, obviously that would be much more.
As long as they do their part by doing half a dozen little things, like putting their own plates in the dishwasher or throwing dirty clothes in the right basket (one for whites, one for cold colors, one for warm colors, one for dry clean, lingerie in the appropriate wash bag), I'm happy to take care of everything else.
I'm sure it would be much more difficult if we had kids or if Grace or Sissy weren't also neatniks like me.
Gilda
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