It's true. We are. Sincerely, A Maryland Transplant.

Because employment status changes, family expenses increase, children are born, cars break, people get sick. Yes, In a happy marriage, you should be looking to be useful and supportive to your partner, but again, hang out on r/marriage and you'll see plenty of people who are not. So they fight over who has to pay and whether one partner should have to "lend money" to the other when they unexpectedly needed new tires.

I became the stay at home parent for 6 years. Thankfully I have a loving, supportive partner who values my self care more than I do. That's not the case for everyone.

Hang out over on r/marriage. Every day there is a post with major relationship problems stemming from exactly this arrangement.

Edit to add: this gets extremely difficult when a couple has children and one partner becomes a primary care giver and it affects income.

Very Chris Van Allsburg, and I love it. It would fit right in as a one off illustration out of The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.

I drive past that sign twice a week and it annoys me far more than the traffic I'm inevitably going to encounter a few miles further.

Dodgeballs and nerf darts are made of foam. Even if Chuck Norris was playing, I don't think our pipes would be in danger.

From what I understood, this is a soundproofing insulation made from cotton fibres and isn't harmful to be around.

Insulation picture https://imgur.com/gallery/gpP6RE7

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