A big fat "duh."

Passanie · May 2011

Wait -- you mean life is less stressful when someone does all your chores for you? No way!

Men relax best when wives are busy

Household chores often get in the way when dual-earner couples want to unwind after a stress-filled day on the job. Now, a new study shows that while wives' stress levels drop when their husbands are helping them with chores, for men it's the opposite: stress levels fall when their wives are busy while they're relaxing.

Rest of the story here.

mandy0505 · May 2011

Haven't read the story yet but love your summary of it

abvernon · May 2011

insert eye roll here Huh?

dani2480 · May 2011

Hell... my stress level falls when my husband is doing chores while I'm relaxing too! Especially if I'm curled up on the couch with a glass of wine and indulging in a good book, or some bad TV.

Maybe I'm a man! Confused

1krazykitty · May 2011

yeah...I'd be less stressed if I got to come home, sit on the couch and wait for dinner too!!

pink.dutch.tulips · May 2011

duh sums it up quite nicely

wldktz10 · May 2011

This makes me too angry...the idea that they needed to do a study on this? Ugh.

Btw, when I think of doing chores I think of how the SIMS always react. Stomping feet, flailing arms, angry rants, etc. They were happier when they have a maid. I will be happier when I have a maid.

hannikan · May 2011

I think what it is saying is that women are not relaxed when their husbands are doing housework because women often worry that they aren't doing it right. So they are most relaxed when husbands are helping them do it. That doesn't surprise me. I would expect that both genders would be most relaxed when both of them are at rest though. Why the husband is most relaxed when the wife is working, I don't understand. It makes him feel like things are in order, gender roles and all? Huh?

sm23 · May 2011

Seriously... They had to spend money on a study to tell them that men feel great about sitting on their butts while someone else does the chores, and that women feel good when their husbands actually do their part of the housework? Pretty much every woman in this country who lives with a man could have told them that.

EmmieB · May 2011

dani2480:
Hell... my stress level falls when my husband is doing chores while I'm relaxing too! Especially if I'm curled up on the couch with a glass of wine and indulging in a good book, or some bad TV.
Maybe I'm a man!

Me, too!

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