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Same here. I supported a partner for some 20 years until he passed. He took care of the household and the cooking, I worked, and neither of us was uncomfortable with the arrangement.

I don't like how the article starts out with the qualification "most women X" but that gets dropped early on, leaving the default implication "all women X." And the title presumes to speak for all of us. Trust me, it does not.

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Great that you could do that! It's not very common that women want this kind of arrangement, though.

It was made much easier by the fact that neither of us strongly wanted children. There's an assumption (social and perhaps hormonal as well) that women will be the primary caregiver, which is a huge wrench in the works of having a career. I think more women would give it a try if the roles were fully discussed and agreed upon.

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