We've gone for the joint a/c, separate personal accounts thing. Not because of any "IT'S MINE!!!!" attitude; just because for us, it's easier to have a joint account for bills'n'bog roll and our own accounts for our own spending. But we're always battering money about between our personal accounts according to relative skintness.

. A lot of men feel that, even if the woman's the earner, housework is still women's work. Those men are stupid lazy misogynist bastards.

Indeed - he said, returning from the grocery shopping, unloading the washing machine and getting ready to make dinner...

"..Ms Booth is resentful that she does all the hard work."

Ms Booth strikes me as the type of wife that would be resentful no matter what the division of labour and/or finances...

Speaking of, how are the wife and baby?

Very well, thanks. Full recovery's still going to take Vic a long time, but she can live fairly normally now. You know, walking and stuff.

And Daisy is just fantastic. Which is just as well, 'cause she'll have to be the only one.

Good. I'm glad to hear it.

Things don't always stay the same as you want them to,illness,an accident,loss of job,
anything.Lauren might not get treated the way she would expect and it will be her own fault.
I don't think men should give up any job which they enjoy ,to be a househusband.
It seems logical but women are not logical,
they don't really like having the onus thrust upon them and they are now leaving their husbands in droves to "improve" themselves with more alpha males,trouble is ,poor old charlie the househusband has probably no money,will lose his children to the wife's lover,will lose his house,has no job,no prospects and will probably have to retrain as a cleaner.Don't say "how can that happen",because it happens every day.