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Basic
Role Expectations.
Our society has undergone a great deal of change in
the basic role expectations of the husband-wife unit. Traditionally, the
husband has been the provider and the wife the homemaker. Currently,
however, over fifty percent of American wives are working outside the
home. This has spawned fresh areas of conflict in marriage.
If the wife is going to work outside the home and
play an equal role with the husband in financial provision, then will he
take an equal degree of responsibility for household tasks that the wife
formerly assumed? Probably not. At least that is what research shows. So,
the wife feels overworked, and resentful. She complains or
withdraws from her husband. He wonders why she is not as responsive as she
was before marriage.
What's going on here? Role expectations were not
clarified on the front end of the marriage and now confusion
reigns. The big question is: "Who is going to clean the
commode?" Join us tomorrow as we seek an answer.
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