Women prefer housekeeping to love
April 25, 2006 by gayla
Filed under General Housekeeping and Homemaking, Uncategorized
I guess I am not the typical wife / “keeper of the castle:”
From IBNLive :
The Independent Daily reported that “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 - followed by some vigourous cleaning and dusting”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 coin.
These women also prefer housekeeping to making love.
Let me count the ways I disagree with this (they obviously didn’t survey me). There is nothing empowering to me about housekeeping - 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!
What do you think??
They must have interviewed only readers of Martha Stewart Living.
I agree with Christine. This article must have been written by a man who isn’t getting enough. If my man dared to add up my time logged in cleaning, well, I think I’d prefer my vaccuum cleaner over him, too!
LOL Good points, both of you.
Thanks for coming to visit me in my temp. home, too. 
Okay, so I’m finally getting around to comment on this.
Let me just say that I hope that this is one area where I’m below average. I really hope I don’t spend 9 of the very limited number of years I have on this earth cleaning up things that someone’s just going to dirty the moment I turn around. I do care about the health of my family, but I am not passionate about a neat and tidy home. Ours definitely looks lived-in all the time! As for the last line of the article, I can’t think of any activity that I’d prefer housework to, even if I do have a headache. 
I really haven’t considered what does give me feelings of empowerment. Might have to think on that.