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How to Get Your Wife to Stop Nagging You about Housework
A guide for pre-woke husbands
We’re knee deep in the 21st century, and men still complain about their wives “nagging” them over household chores. Honestly, I thought we’d have robots doing all this by now.
So I guess everyone’s a little disappointed.
Anyway, the men who complain the most run banks and Fortune 500 companies. They give Tedx Talks. They top the charts in self-help genres. And yet, they don’t know how to chop an onion or boil rice. They rely on their wives and/or daughters to do this for them. When their wives tell them to help out a little, it’s called “nagging.”
How do we solve this problem? How do men get their wives to stop nagging them? I have some ideas…
Maybe stop calling it nagging
Asking someone to do half of the housework isn’t nagging anymore. If your boss criticized you for doing a bad job, or not showing up to work on time, you wouldn’t call it nagging.
Think of your marriage like a job. It kind of is. You signed a contract and everything. You don’t get to complain about doing your share. And you shouldn’t really get to brag about it, either.
