Summary of Jancee Dunn's How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had a friend who was pregnant, and when she got her baby, she screamed at her husband because he wouldn’t empty the Diaper Genie. Tom is a sweet, caring spouse and father who spends hours with our daughter, Sylvie, patiently playing an eighth round of Go Fish.
#2 I had assumed that my very evolved husband and I, who were both freelance writers who worked from home, would naturally be in tune with each other. But after our baby was born, we quickly slid backward into the traditional roles we’d grown up seeing.
#3 I feel like I am constantly playing the scorekeeping game with my husband, Tom. I am always trying to see if he will step up and help out with the household chores, but he seems to enjoy floating around in a happy single-guy bubble on weekends.
#4 What makes me the most sad about our constant bickering is that it drags down what is, by all accounts, a pretty wonderful life. Our daughter is easygoing and goofy, and we live in a serene converted church in Brooklyn.

Sujets

• Maturation

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822512061
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jancee Dunn's How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had a friend who was pregnant, and when she got her baby, she screamed at her husband because he wouldn’t empty the Diaper Genie. Tom is a sweet, caring spouse and father who spends hours with our daughter, Sylvie, patiently playing an eighth round of Go Fish.

#2

I had assumed that my very evolved husband and I, who were both freelance writers who worked from home, would naturally be in tune with each other. But after our baby was born, we quickly slid backward into the traditional roles we’d grown up seeing.

#3

I feel like I am constantly playing the scorekeeping game with my husband, Tom. I am always trying to see if he will step up and help out with the household chores, but he seems to enjoy floating around in a happy single-guy bubble on weekends.

#4

What makes me the most sad about our constant bickering is that it drags down what is, by all accounts, a pretty wonderful life. Our daughter is easygoing and goofy, and we live in a serene converted church in Brooklyn.

#5

When my husband and I had our daughter, we were so excited to start a new family tradition of spending time with each other. But instead of enjoying it, we were constantly annoyed with each other. Our situation is not unique: 67 percent of couples see their marital satisfaction plummet after having a baby.

#6

Working mothers are the top earners in a record 40 percent of families with kids, yet they still do nearly three and a half times as much housework as married fathers. And when you’ve been picking up nonstop after a two-year-old, your husband’s formerly harmless habit of shedding his socks into a bounceable ball shape suddenly becomes deeply irritating.

#7

Even though fathers have stepped up in sharing childcare duties, mothers still spend about twice as much time with their kids than fathers do. Men have less to gain by changing their behavior, while women are more likely to want to alter the status quo.

#8

Men, on the other hand, often choose chores with a leisure component – activities that have a more flexible timetable than more urgent jobs such as hustling the kids out the door for school or making dinner.

#9

There are many things I enjoy doing as a mother that I don’t think Tom enjoys doing. I enjoy organizing, researching, and scheduling things, while Tom would rather just do things.

#10

When parents constantly fight, it affects their children negatively. Even when they are asleep, infants as young as six months react negatively to angry, argumentative voices.

#11

The longer your marital fighting goes on, the worse it is for your kids. The quality of your relationship with your child is closely tied to the bond you have with your spouse.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

My father, a retired J. C. Penney manager, is a preparedness expert. He will always bring up a disturbing news story and relate it to our safety. He sees everything through a fatherly lens. If a child wants an expensive toy, my father will helpfully offer that the money would be better spent buying stock in said toy company.

#2

Dad lenses view the world through a practical lens. They are always prepared for emergencies, and they love to share that preparedness with their children.