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	<title>Keeping the Castle &#187; women</title>
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		<title>Women prefer housekeeping to love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I am not the typical wife / &#8220;keeper of the castle:&#8221;
From IBNLive :
The Independent Daily reported that &#8220;though women are making advancing economically at a frentic pace, one thing that gives them the ultimate sense of empowerment is to go around the house with a vaccum cleaner &#8211; followed by some vigourous cleaning and dusting&#8221;The study also calculated that the average woman spends nine years, two months and 25 days of her waking life cleaning and tidying.
However, before all the lazy men out there are elated by this bit of news, there is a flip side to the [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.blisstree.com/keepingthecastle">Keeping the Castle</a></p>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/taj-mahal-to-be-screened-in-pakistan/8694-13.html">IBNLive</a> :</p>
<blockquote><p>The Independent Daily reported that &#8220;though women are making advancing economically at a frentic pace, one thing that gives them the ultimate sense of empowerment is to go around the house with a vaccum cleaner &#8211; followed by some vigourous cleaning and dusting&#8221;The study also calculated that the average woman spends nine years, two months and 25 days of her waking life cleaning and tidying.</p>
<p>However, before all the lazy men out there are elated by this bit of news, there is a flip side to the coin.</p>
<p>These women also prefer housekeeping to making love.</p></blockquote>
<p>Let me count the ways I disagree with this (they obviously didn&#8217;t survey me).  There is nothing empowering to me about housekeeping &#8211; it is something I do because I love my family and want the best for them.  At the very highest point, it is satisfying, but never empowering to me, at its lowest point it is a frustrating drudgery.  And let me just say, I heartily reject the last statement.  Heartily!</p>
<p>What do you think??</p>
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