So he works about 10 hours a day? (I'm just assuming, because 7 days minus Saturday and Sunday because it's the U.S., so 50 hours in 5 days=10 hours a day) Sounds like you should do SOMETHING to help around the house, not 50 hours of course, like 5 maybe.

Well I don't know if 50 hrs of housework exists but, since he works and you don't, you should do 100 percent of the chores.

Arbitrary = random. This was not random. He picked this number based on the "logic" that he does that much work, so should you. Thou shall use a dictionary. The 11th commandment.

Clearly none of you have had a tough pregnancy. I had such a hard time doing Any housework. Dishes made me so nauseated sometimes I had to stop halfway through to vomit. I was so anemic I felt amazingly tired ALL the time.I was lucky to get 5hrs of sleep bc its hard to get comfy with a belly. All of our household cleaners made me feel dizzy or nauseated.Plus I had a toddler running around.I'm not usually one to complain, but it was Really Really Hard to even do the equivalent to 20 mins of chores. Do what you can girl, if he complains, well he can just shove it. :)

Why are so many people in the comments assuming that the OP doesn't keep the house clean? Unless I'm missing something, nothing in the FML indicates this. (In any case, if she's pregnant a certain amount of leeway is obviously reasonable.) The point of housework is to keep the house clean, not to clock in a certain number of hours, and I highly doubt that their house requires an average of 7 hours of cleaning a day.

As a professional housekeeper, I worked a 40-hour week. During that week, I cleaned, from top to bottom, 10 houses. I completely cleaned one house in four hours, including laundry. And I was not pregnant. I would usually return in two weeks. Any one of you who thinks cleaning one house for ten hours each day makes any kind of sense has not done much in the way of housework. Neither has this boyfriend. He sounds rather controlling. I say, DTMFA. Tell him to go screw himself.

Pitching in is one thing, but FIFTY HOURS? Seriously... my grandmother was an old-fashioned housewife, her home was ALWAYS spotless, and I seriously doubt she spent "50 hours" cleaning her large, suburban house. If he wants a classic housewife, that goes with knowing that she WILL have leisure time without the man. She WILL have activities besides housecleaning. And YOU are in charge of your OWN life. Tell him his decisions are his own, and yours are your own, and if they don't include 50 hours of housework, so be it. All things come to an end, perhaps it's time to move on to a more considerate guy.

Well, you don't have to make cleaning hard and boring. I always spice it up with some music! You'll be surprised at how fast time passes by.

You should say why dnt you try house work it's much more difficult especially when you leave messes all around

OP said her boyfriend said "housework". If her boyfriend did say housework, and not just cleaning, that can mean a lot of things. Homekeeping includes planning meals, cooking meals, washing clothes, ironing, grocery shopping, shopping for baby items, paying bills, AND keeping the house clean. Just cooking breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday would be 14 hours a week (breakfast 30mins, lunch 30mins, dinner 1hr) I did this all when I was pregnant, because I had to. Some of you sound like ******* princesses. *But dishsoap made me nauseous* *It's hard cleaning a bathtub 9 months pregnant* *I couldn't sleep at night because I was uncomfortable* Of course it was hard! You are growing another human being inside of you in a very short time. But life is hard, and you can't give up on something anytime something gets difficult. Being pregnant is not a job. Housekeeping is, and if you don't take it seriously, you're boyfriend just might find another girl for the job. It happens all the time.