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Blogger Receives Backlash for Advising Women to “do their Housework Cheerfully”

Blogger Receives Backlash for Advising Women to “do their Housework Cheerfully”

A blogger, named Lori Alexander, from California, recently shared a post advising wives not to expect their husbands to help with domestic chores and this has got people talking.

In the post, she shared tips on how to have a “happy marriage” and suggested that a wife cannot be happy if she expects her husband to help with household chores “because expectations destroy relationships.”

She then added, “If he helps, great and if not, do your housework cheerfully as unto the Lord. Remember, you didn’t marry your husband to help with the household chores.”

Read the full post below …

Lori Alexander

The post, however, was not well received by followers who called the blogger “medieval”. A follower named Lara Baker responded with the words, “The 1950’s called, they want their sexist gender politics back. FYI: God intended husband and wife to be help meets to each other, not just the wife to the husband” and many seemed to agree with her.

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Read some of the responses below …

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Photo credit: Facebook/Lori Alexander

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