I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know? Elizabeth Alexander
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All couples who are married should share the responsibility of keeping their home clean. When you say that you have to know where the tea-towels are kept, you are implying that if your husband were to do it, he would not do it well enough. The lack of knowledge about how to program the DVR is an insult to both men and women. Everyone knows how to use a DVR.

It is not something that one needs to be taught. Furthermore, when you say that one husband should know where the tea-towels are kept while another does not, you are implying that there is no equality between the men in your marriage.

Source: The Light Of The World

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