We work as much as it takes to provide a good life for our families. We don't expect to be "validated" for it every hour or so? We grow up knowing this is what we will do and just deal with it. We don't work to "prove ourselves" or "be stimulated" or "do something meaningful".
And we love every second of having a family.(at least I do). But this can all be taken away from us at the drop of a hat and we get to pay for that wonderful experience as the disgruntled wife leaves with the children. Does not matter one bit whose fault it is AND
Then we usually die 7-10 years earlier than our wives after having worked forever to insure that they will survive comforatbaly and that our children and grandchildren if possible will have "a leg up" in life.
I have witnessed women waiting too late since the early 80s when I lived in Manhattan and all the late 30s boomer chicks were absolutely freaking about having a family. A woman should look to starting her family by age 30 at the latest if she wants a large one and if she does want a large family, she will have to forgo "fulfillment in business"...whatever that means...for a decade or so. Unless she is very very lucky....but then the children will suffer. It is simply not the best of both worlds when both parents are gone away to work all the time.
True enough. We've had it all. We've had the duty and privilege of fighting and dying for our country. We unstop the sewers, hell, we built the sewers. We change the tires, we climb the poles during storms to keep the phones and electricity working. We'll run into a burning building and carry you down a ladder if need be - even if you're 4'0" and weigh 300 lbs. We invented the machines that enabled "the enlightened age of feminism," but we'll still move the rocks from the field, with the strength of our own backs, if that's all we have left to use. We work to support our families, then we come home and work some more. If we're lucky, we have a woman next to us who appreciates us and understands that we need her ever bit as much as she needs us. If we're unlucky, we end up with some smart@ss broad whining about how "men have it all."
What a crock of clinton!