On another blog, wives being blasted for not wanting intimacy with their husbands. The accusation of wanting to get with bad-boys,

of course, was launched.  But this comment/post isn't about skanks, this post asks why regular wives would give their husbands the old headache excuse.  Could it be, that after putting in her 8 hours (if not more) at the corporation, then the day's housework, cooking, child-care...by 10 pm she is just plain dog-tired - and stressed, because she, again, didn't get done what was needed. 

Rushing from one too-many tasks, to another, she failed to get to the dryer in time, and now shirts and pants will need pressed.  And there's stuff sitting on the ironing board.

In the real world...of two-parent income families, where mom has to take on too many patriarchal responsibilities (while enjoying none of patriarchy's privileges) things - like stuff on the ironing board - don't get taken care of.  There's a scientific reason for this: there's twenty-four hours in a day, and that can't be stretched...because the bag of rice has a hole in it, and now the (rather crowded) counter top and the floor are speckled with the stuff.  Oh well, the floor needed swept anyway...yeah that's another task that she's stressed about, for want of time.

It's 10 o'clock.  And she's a mean manipulative old biche, for no better reason than, simply being too tired and (rather peeved through it all) and less than enthusiastic about giving peewee his bj.

Well duh?