People who don't regularly look after children often imagine stay-at-home moms wandering around all day drinking coffee and occasionally looking out the window as their hardest work. If you've ever been around small children, you know you won't even have time to get dressed or go to the bathroom, let alone quietly drink coffee.
If you stop paying attention to the kids for five minutes, you most likely will end up with a crayon painting on the wall or a fresh toddler haircut, but as we've seen moms perform that labor all our lives, we assume it doesn't tire them or that it comes out naturally for them.
I'm here to tell you it does tire them, it doesn't come naturally, and that household labor should be considered as valuable as a blue-collar job. After all, if we don't have someone looking after children, nobody can go to the office in the first place. All I'm saying is that both parts of a team can't exist without the other.
In this story in particular, I think that resentment is building up, and sadly, there is not much you can do after that. Some commentators say she reached the point of no return and might as well pack her things and go, because there is not much she can do after that.
Is that really it? Or are we too quick to give up on partnership and family these days? Can't this type of issue be solved through dialogue? Especially if there are children involved.
I would definitely choose to try to fix it by talking A LOT first. Am I too optimistic?