Gender Roles In Marriages

samsWait · Jun 11, 2016

While I was browsing Facebook I came across a post which says we have no gender roles we both are hustlers cook clean play romantic and spoil each other. How many of you are strictly in that kind of relationship? Is that relationship healthy in the long run? If so how and if not up to what extent should gender roles be defined in marriage? Just a discussion. Nothing serious

Jazmine83 · Jun 11, 2016

I am in that kind of a relationship. No gender roles.

I cook/he cooks, I work/ he works, I invest/ he invests, I take car for oil change/he does the same. There is no clear definition. We just don't associate a particular role to a gender..like cooking is a wifes role & changing oil is a mans role.

For us it is working out great. My brothers & SIL also have no gender roles in their house. It is working well for them as well. It depends entirely on the couple and what makes them happy.

Bbgy · Jul 12, 2016

Hey samsWait!

Yes, there are couples that are going beyond gender roles and it seems to be working out well for them. Here is the story of one such couple (narrated over two articles) that is consciously trying to go beyond gender roles:
United by marriage...divided by gender-roles and responsibilities?
and
Our kitchen is not a woman's territory. I'm not its queen.

Hope this answers your question to some extent