I agree with just about everything you say, except that a by definition, depression interferes with a person's ability to function as they normally would.. while your mother may have a form of severe depression, I highly doubt that it's the same form of depression that other people are referring to

Or you could quit assuming shit just to have a rant at the OP? A post full of "probably this" and "you shouldn't do that" based on zero information is a douchey pile of shit you're better off not posting at all. just sayin

perhaps, but I was jumping to the same amount of conclusions as everyone else. you just don't agree with mine. cry more

I disagree pretty strongly with that. The only conclusion (most) others are jumping to is that she had time to do some washing and/or cooking in her day. A conclusion based on the fact that millions of women with children manage to do just those things every day. Whereas you try to provide us with a character study of the OP based on... absolutely nothing.

millions of women everyday, have 4 children that they take care of everyday, a husband who works 10hr shifts, manages to have the kitchen perfectly in order with dinner for 6 on the table at the right time, every single day? no. lol, just no. I'd love to live in your world if you really think that's true. housewives who have husband that work a lot, however, do tend to become depressed, listless, unhappy, lonely, etc. stress in this economy of not having a job is common. having 4 kids to support makes it more common. the guy obviously feels like he does a lot of work. she might feel the same being at home with 4 people to constantly moniter. and not just for 10 hours.. I mean a mothers job is 24/7/365. I mean there are "millions" of men that work 10 hour shifts everyday that come home to babysitter who won't help with dishes or dinner. they can pull it off without complaint, why's this guy get to bitch? perhaps because they are who they are and you can't prove that just because 10 people can do it, that the 11th person can do it too. my conclusions were safe to jump to, while conclusions such as "SHES A FAT LAZY BITCH AND YOU SHOULD DIVORCE HER" are helpful, reasonable or nice at all. I was offering my theories/perspective, and I wasn't trying to offer advice that would hurt anyone or lead someone to end a marriage, but instead, try and work it out. not that the guy would listen to a stranger or anything, but this is an open forum soooo.. so really? my conclusions were bad? go troll someone else.

I recall an fml where the husband told the wife her job as housewife was nothing special. everyone said how much hard work it is.

Taking care of four kids can be a bit of work, but we don't know how old these kids are, it these are school age kids as the FML seems to suggest, then they are plenty old enough to begin learning to be self sufficient, which can take pressure off the mother, and no one says the house or kitchen has to be "perfectly in order," but if there aren't even enough clean dishes in the house to make one meal, there's definitely a problem...

playin housewife as a teenager how cute.... that's easy if your not also taking care of four kids.

If she'd said "I worked a full-time job and still got all the housework done" I'm sure you'd have said nothing. Studying is as big a timesink. So take your patronising shit elsewhere.

126, I disagree. Raising 4 kids requires an enormous measure of hard work, emotional strain, sleeplessness and other general energy expenditures, even if you do love it and live for it. Working full-time and taking care of a household of 2 adults is still laughable compared to keeping house while raising 4 kids. And I do the former, so I'm not knocking it at all-- I know it's hard work, just not *as* hard.

I wasn't trying to say that full-time work is as demanding as raising 4 kids. But nor, I think, was #92. What I was saying that its still a decent responsibility and the poster above (101) had no right to start spewing patronising shite - effectively just because it was a teenager speaking.