There won’t be any equitable division of chores unless everything is accounted for! As we mentioned in the previous post, that includes “keeping financial records, home maintenance, shopping, planning, cleaning, cooking, childcare, transportation, etc.” (Stritof, 2020). Petriglieri, author of …
Willingness
What is willingness? The dictionary definition might be something like “the quality or state of being prepared to do something, readiness.” In the context of Navigating Women’s Roles, we also use the concept of willingness that comes from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). In …
Growth and Change
We often change over time, and hopefully that change is growth. It’s possible for one spouse to feel betrayed—or possibly left behind—if the other has changed significantly, especially if they feel that the other spouse has changed to be less committed to the marriage. A better outcome is that …
Navigating Women’s Roles
The Life Skills Weekly blog is shifting from general life skills to look at a very specific topic: how women can navigate their various roles within a traditional marriage. Women’s roles and possibilities have expanded drastically in the last 100 years. It is no longer a given that women …