The one where I get into some detail

Welcome back to another blog post by yours truly, still on the topic of love. Today I will be talking about relationships in today's society, the roles that men and women play, and how that differs from my personal relationship. There are several types of relationships in today's day and age and I also feel like most are a big joke. In my opinion if you aren't in it for the long haul why waste your time with one? Today, most people don't want to be in it for the long haul, they are just looking for an easy hookup. This is very common among college students and in recent years with high school students. Casual hookups are very easy to do with the help of social media sites and dating apps like Tinder. I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing and if you enjoy a casual hookup my advice is to use protection. Another common thing in today's society is the term FWB or friends with benefits. If you don't already know what this is, google it or ask a friend. Again, I'm not saying this is a bad thing, just not for me. If you are in a relationship the term "cheating" isn't much of a surprise anymore. The surprise comes when you see a relationship where both partners are honest and true to each other, which is sad. I seen a post on Facebook a while back of a girl who knew her boyfriend was cheating on her and said as long as he is using protection it's fine. This is something that will never be okay with me. The sad thing about all of this is there are some people who are looking for true love and that's getting harder to find because the majority doesn't want that. I believe there is a person for everyone out there you just have to find them, but you have to be patient. This is another thing people don't like to do, we want everything right now.

Back in the 50's, women were expected to stay at home and cook all the meals along cleaning the house. Fast forwarding to today, this is not what most women do. Some men who are in steady relationships still expect their significant other to do this and maintain a steady job, putting in as many hours as he does. Some partners do this without any hesitation or help from their other half. This can also be vise versa and the woman in the relationship may expect this from their man. I have a friend who is in a new relationship and they started talking about what they want in the future. He comes from a household where his mom never had a job and did all of the cooking and cleaning. I'll stop here and say I think this situation is a little different and since she doesn't work, I think this is acceptable for her to do everything. Once my friend informed her boyfriend that this wouldn't be the case for them if they ended up getting married, he wasn't so happy. This was actually a shock to him and they got into a fight about it. He didn't think he needed to do any of the housework or cook. He also told her that she wouldn't have a job and that he would bring in all the money. This may be appealing to some women but for her it wasn't. This is the part where I tell you how it works in our household.

Tyson (my boyfriend) and I recently moved in together and I live in Kansas for most of the year, he does the majority of the housework. It is quite amusing to me when I get that "I forgot to do laundry this week and had to go commando today" text in the middle of the week though. Over Christmas break and during the summer whenever I live here, the duties are shared between both of us. He works full time and I have a part time job here and we take turns doing the laundry and dishes. He takes out the trash and I sweep/mop. We both help make the bed whenever we get out of it and we both put up the laundry once it is done. I'm a terrible cook so he usually does the majority of that but if it's a boxed dinner, I'm all over it. This is just one example of how healthy our relationship is. I think by sharing the household responsibilities it one, makes it easier on both of us and two, makes us appreciate the other person.

I hope you enjoyed everything I had to say and made you think about the type of relationship you are in or what kind you want in the future. I'm going to leave you with an article talking about some statistics of shared household responsibilities that I found interesting, and a picture of a sunset (because that's romantic, right?)

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/28/me-is-like-leave-it-to-beaver.html