Quote: For example, your story about fixing the house fan. You included and made your daughter a part of the team. I read that and I kept thinking...ok... where is the part where he hollers at his W to make them some lemonade?
I think this is a good suggestion but when you're trying to do the Alpha Male thing with a woman like MsHD (or me for that matter) you are better off going with a post-feminist rather than a pre-feminist approach. For instance, my H gets it right when he good-humoredly says "Beer me, wench.". It might also be effective to use your natural sense of humor in the opposite way when MsHD orders you around. For instance, if she started b*tching that you did a half*ss job mopping the floor you could do some sort of Monty Pythonesque oppressed housewife drag thing saying in falsetto "Oh dear me, my floor is not pristine. What will the neighbors think. Ohh..Mr.Clean please come help me..". Doing this will probably make MsHD feel uncomfortably butch in her behavior and cause her to stop though she might get angry also.
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