Parenting is surely one of the difficult tasks. It takes a lot to raise your kids. It should be the responsibility of both the parents to work as a team while raising the kid. A lot of hard work and commitment is required by both of them while raising the kids. When the responsibility falls on a single parent, then it becomes very difficult to do parenting. An Australian blogger Constance Hall got so frustrated with raising of her 4 kids that she wrote a post on Facebook which is going viral now. “All you’re left with is silent resentment. And that my friends is relationship cancer…” she wrote.
Constance’s rant immediately went viral and attracted attention of a lot of people. People started reacting to the Facebook post. People sympathized with Constance. There were lot of people who were going through similar kind of problems in life. People were also fed up with the lack of support from their partners while raising the kids.
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Constance Hall wrote on Facebook, “Recently while b*tching about the fact that I do absolutely everything around my house with a bunch of friends all singing "preach Queen", someone said to me "if you want help you need to be specific... ask for it. People lists, they aren't mind readers. So I tried that, asking.. specifics.."Can you take the bin out?" "Can you get up with the kids? I'm just a little tired after doing it on my own for 329 years," she asked.
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"Can you go to woolies? I've done 3 loads of washing and made breaky, lunch, picked up all the kids school books, dealt with the floating shit in the pond. And yeah, she was right... shit got done. But I was exhausted, just keeping the balls in the air.. remembering what needs to be asked to be done, constant nagging..” she added.
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"And do you know what happened the minute I stopped asking...? NOTHING. Again. And so I've come to the conclusion that it's not your job to ask for help, it's not my job to write fucking lists. We have enough goddam jobs and teaching someone how to consider me and my ridiculous workload is not one of them," she wrote.
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"Just do it. Just think about each other, what it takes to run the goddam house. Is one of you working while the other put up their feet? Is one of you hanging out with mates while the other peels the thirtieth piece of fruit for the day?" she asked.
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"Is one of you carrying the weight? Because when the nagging stops, when the asking dies down when there are no more lists.... All your left with is silent resentment. And that my friends is relationship cancer.. It's not up to anyone else to teach you consideration. That's your job. Just do the fucking dishes without being asked once in a while mother fuckers," she wrote.
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The Facebook post of Constance Hall garnered a lot of attention from females who could relate to such situation. Nicolle Laskos Nowosielski wrote, "Yeah, cuz it's so sexy to assign chores to a grown ass man who is pretending not to have observational skills."
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Rosie Martin wrote, "I hate being the taskmaster in my household. I will never understand why most managerial/executive positions in the workplace are taken up by men when they generally lack basic observational and organizational skills and lack the motivation to complete any needed task at all unless it's something they WANT to do themselves. How the hell are women not totally running the world yet????!!"
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Danielle Souliere Charron wrote, "the other part of that is, now that you've asked and it's (maybe) been done, it's like they did for you a FAVOR and now you owe them. "I washed the dishes for you. I made the kids lunches for you." I mean, thank you for helping but by saying that you're making everything MY job that you are wonderful enough to "help" me with. F- that noise."
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There were some who were also happy with their relationships. Ashley Murray wrote, "The more I'm on social media the more I realise how blessed I am to have my husband. I have never asked him to do a chore and he has never asked me... We BOTH live in the home.... it's BOTH of our jobs to care for it.. Same with caring for our kids. I have never had to ask for help."
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