Working Couples and Balance in Relationship

These days, both husband and wife work as professionals and earn money for home. Both remain busy for at least 10 to 12 hours a day, working in their respective offices. When they return to their home after a hard day's work, it is important that both of them should demonstrate empathy, care, affection and love to each other and then, therefore, share the household work.

The routine household work involves:

•Evening tea/coffee and refreshments
•Dinner
•Next day's lunch packs
•Dropping and picking up child/children from day-care/schools
•Bathing of child or children (when they are dependent on parents)
•Child's (or children's) home work and their studies
•Child (or children's) other development requirements
•Helping child/children to sleep on time; story telling
•Grocery
•Housekeeping
•Interior decoration and its maintenance
•Dish washing
•Laundry
•Paying bills
•Social calls/meetings
•Library
•Equipment maintenance
•etc
•etc (the list may be incomplete)

In case of couples where wife was not working, traditionally, she was expected to take up lots of these above-mentioned household responsibilities, though it also meant a considerable workload on her if her husband did not assist or help her in carrying out those chores.

However, in case of working couples when they are on par with each other in terms of their professional working hours outside their home, it is absolutely essential that they equally share all of the above-mentioned household responsibilities when they return to their home after their office work.

Since it is a husband-wife relationship, the household work should be done together as a team and not as a boss-subordinate relationship or as earmarked departments. At home they are life partners and equal; no one is superior and no one is inferior. So, they should share the household work while demonstrating empathy, care, affection and love towards each other.

That's called the perfect marriage relationship.