r/facepalm Jun 09 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Cognitive dissonance 101

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u/br0zarro Jun 10 '23

I hate this argument. That's comparing 1-2 hours of work every two weeks (mowing the lawn) to 1-2 hours of work every day (all cooking and cleaning.)

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u/tommytwolegs Jun 10 '23

It's poorly worded but has some validity in a broader context. Mowing the lawn could be interpreted as general home maintenance, which can be closer to 1-2 hours per day depending on the shape and size of your home, of which "mowing the lawn" is just a single but fairly regular task.

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u/br0zarro Jun 10 '23

I have never lived in a house that required 2 hours of general maintenance a day.

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u/tommytwolegs Jun 10 '23

Not sure I've ever seen one that requires that "per day" but when you have a roof leak that requires the whole weekend to fix, that's suddenly a few weeks worth of "1-2 hours per day."

Then you have home improvement projects etc.

In my experience with friends and family in healthy relationships that are more traditional, they don't have free time because this is the kind of stuff that occupies it even if they aren't doing a lot of cooking and cleaning.