My wife dwarfs your work week. She pulls 80 to 90 hours every single week. She works 6 days per week. She still manages to help cook, clean, shop, do the dishes, and amazingly, she still gets some time to relax.

Find me the number of people working 80 hours. Because, as a resident physician, my wife is the ONLY person I’ve ever met that pulls those kinds of hours regularly. I’ve heard some construction workers doing that for a week or a month, but never 12 months per year. So, obviously, those situations aren’t representative…

Then that’s fine. What you fail to understand, and for the life of me I can’t figure out why beyond a lack of reading comprehension, NO ONE IS COMPLAINING ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE.

Do you understand what a straw man is? I can only assume you either a) do, and consciously ignore it, or b) have no clue.

You’ve made a LOT of uncited assertions. Things like people work 10 hours per week more now than they did in the ‘70s. Got a source on that?

That’s actually not what the CDC said, but ok.

Sometimes, but really, cheat day is just eating badly for a meal and not feeling guilty. Cheat day happens maybe once a week, sometimess less frequently. My wife and I try to eat fairly healthy and we record our calories. But, on cheat day, we throw caution to the wind and eat garbage. For instance, one night we went…

Heck yeah! I use down right terrible cuts of meat (if you were to throw them on a grill) and make great things like a pot roast or beef stroganoff or other things that would be nearly inedible but for the slow cooking process. Chicken thighs and legs benefit tremendously from a nice slow (or pressure) cook.

Then you take the risk. No one’s forcing a woman to consume or not consume alcohol. I think the CDC would admit a single drink every few months would, even if it does cause some damage, cause negligible damage.

I hear ya. I feel the exact same way. If my wife and I can do it pulling 130 hour weeks, if my mom (a single parent) could cook for me every night as a child while working a full time 60 hour per week job, then everyone can do it. If they don’t, it’s because they’ve chosen to do something else. That’s fine, but they…

Neither my wife or I drink, I don’t think we’re “losing a form of fun.” We just do something else instead.

Oh yeah, I made a chicken and rice recipe (linked in another comment) and it cost basically nothing (on a per meal basis). It used chicken thighs and drumsticks ($0.99/lb), some spices, an onion, a clove of garlic, some tomato paste, and rice. All said and done, it probably cost $5 for 8 meals.

Ha, that was a pretty good typo (and good catch!).

Hmmm.... notice the similarities between two busy families and the tips and tricks they use to cook at home? It’s almost like there’s a fairly universal method to making it work.

You misunderstand me. I mean “still” as in, women “still” cook? Because, from my experience with women in my generation, that statement is void on its face.

Still? Because I haven’t met a single woman in my generation (I’m in my early 30s) that can cook. Every single person I know that can cook is male or a woman over the age of 50.

Nice assumption. It’s completely wrong, but it was very nice.

Thank you! Yeah, you and your wife are busy (quite a bit more than myself and my wife due to our lack of kids) and yet you still manage to have time to cook. You probably don’t get to sit in front of the TV for hours on end, and instead, you spend that time cooking and having a meal with your family. That’s your…

I don’t think there’s any significant percent of the population traveling between 2 to 3 jobs per day 7 days per week. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m 99.99999999999999999999999999% sure I’m not.

There seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence being thrown around like “my wife drank like a fish right before we found out she was pregnant and my kid’s fine.”