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re: Mental Load. Anybody else tired of women playing the victim?

Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:27 pm to
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
74906 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:27 pm to
Threads like this remind me how lucky I am to have married my wife, and mother of our two children, 29 years ago this past week.
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
21124 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:31 pm to
“Mental load” is womanese for “I am too lazy and/or incompetent to function as an adult.”

I once heard it said that a man’s life greatly improves when he realizes his wife is the oldest teenager in the house.
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 10:32 pm
Posted by Gee Grenouille
Member since Jul 2018
8607 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:55 pm to
I’ve seen guys manage everything for their wives and kids, then get told they’re too controlling. As soon as they make a decision on their own, the husband is cleaning up a mess. So I ask, what came first? The man being controlling, or the man cleaning up your messes? Cause it can’t be both. He’s not controlling, he’s trying to protect you from yourself.
Posted by Sunnyvale
Little ST. James
Member since Feb 2024
3984 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:58 pm to
Ive got multiple family members divorced. And the women filed for divorce.

So some things that come to mind:
1. Just paying the bills is "bear Minimum"
2. Also, if she is a stay at home mother, the man must contribute to her IRA because if she gets divorced further down the timeline, she will have nothing.
3. Your not spending time with her family and work all the time its a problem. Big Problem.
4. They married the Man. The Man Didnt change. None of them, But they all went to counseling. All the Women Changed, they just slowly pulled the mask off.
5. I have another family Member, that will most likely be divorced in the next 5 years.
6. I am not married. I would have been. But, I give some of these guys metals for putting up with my family members. But some of the did do some really horrible things, and I can say, I am not shocked.

Also, They had plenty of great dudes that loved them, but they all trashed them for someone else. So they married these dirt bags. Cocaine Addiction, Alcholoic, Man Beater, Etc.
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 11:17 pm
Posted by Pax Regis
Alabama
Member since Sep 2007
15489 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:59 pm to
What they call mental load is just female overthinking.

Just get the shite done. It doesn’t require two hours of mental anguish to decide what groceries to buy or what to cook. Do it and move on.
Posted by Robin Masters
Birmingham
Member since Jul 2010
36836 posts
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:04 pm to
quote:

We can make a trip for groceries. But we’re not carrying the mental load of what everyone will eat.


Ok wtf is this? Sounds to me like you put the pussy on a pedestal and now she’s got you believing all kind of nonsense.

Posted by Clockwatcher68
Youngsville
Member since May 2006
8433 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 12:00 am to
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Sounds to me like you put the pussy on a pedestal and now she’s got you believing all kind of nonsense.


Poor guys have been conditioned to believe that all of life’s challenges are their fault. “Down with the patriarchy” and all that bullshite.

Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
135166 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 12:26 am to
quote:

Mental load


Well there's your problem. You aren't supposed to dump your loads in their mind ...
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
85729 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 12:28 am to
quote:

Load

quote:

women


I’m listening
Posted by UnitedFruitCompany
Bay Area
Member since Nov 2018
4269 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 1:46 am to
DARVO. JADE.

Learn what those two mean and you will never interact with a woman the same way again. or, if you are lucky, you will literally worship the ground she walks on.

Posted by dyslexiateechur
Louisiana
Member since Jan 2009
36825 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 3:09 am to
You’re here whining about women on a message board but sure, women are the ones who play victim.

Half of yall need to get divorced and become gay with the way you bitch about women.
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
10431 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 3:20 am to
More like people playing the victim.
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
14870 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 3:55 am to
quote:

“Mental load” is


is easier.
Posted by Trapped in time
Member since Mar 2023
644 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 5:51 am to
quote:

Women gets kids ready for daycare/school and get them there and pick them up. A lot take them to sports/after school events, grocery shop, cook dinner, make sure there’s toilet paper/shampoo/soap, prepare for holidays, and many work. A lot of men work while women do the majority of extras.



A man can do all that and it won’t matter. Women will throw the ambiguous mental load BS no matter what.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
17866 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:04 am to
I had to get on my wife's arse the other day. She made a comment to me that I don't do as much house work as her. She completely forgot that I spent 3-4 hours per week in the heat mowing, weed eating, maintaining her flower beds, etc. We live in a 1000 SF house so it doesn't exactly take long to clean it thoroughly. I mop/vacuum 2x per week and it takes me about 30 minutes total. She apologized which was the most shocking part. I got a good one.
Posted by LoveThatMoney
Who knows where?
Member since Jan 2008
12832 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:15 am to
quote:

Women gets kids ready for daycare/school and get them there and pick them up. A lot take them to sports/after school events, grocery shop, cook dinner, make sure there’s toilet paper/shampoo/soap, prepare for holidays, and many work. A lot of men work while women do the majority of extras.


Nuh uh!
Posted by Ricardo
Member since Sep 2016
6775 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:27 am to
If your woman cries about mental load, you haven't given her a load to think about.

Seriously though. The type of woman you're describing is what we call, "neurotic." IMO, it means she's going to create problems in her mind no matter what you do (or don't do.) Women are programmed to worry. For lack of a better example, women are prey. They are always on high alert.

The whole mental load thing is just a stress response to not having enough things in her life worth worrying about. So now she's creating conflict as a means of giving her anxiety something to focus on. It's why some women are constantly nagging. Their chimp brain is expressing itself in behaviors that "worked." They're not in control.

Getting back to my original comment. In nature, the males in her life would frick her to stop her nagging. Might seem very basic, but believe it or not, it works.
This post was edited on 7/28/26 at 6:36 am
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
12379 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:49 am to
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Man you’re still mad about that post.


Don’t know wtf you are talking about milk toast boy.
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
43031 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:10 am to
I once saw a video where a woman asked herself if “mental load” wasn’t a euphemism for “control”. She said something like “I know my husband can pack up the car and fit everything in the back seat, but it won’t be how I would have done it” and then rattled off 3 or 4 other things she knows he’s capable of but would be different than her preferred way.

It’s an interesting question that couples and families today need to wrangle.
Posted by DevilDagNS
Member since Dec 2017
3032 posts
Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:13 am to
Ironic post is ironic.
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