My wife and I have been married for almost 2 years. For the first year and a half I paid all the expenses including immigration lawyer costs and legal documents amounting to thousands in debt. I have been struggling paying all the bills and debt interest so she finally got a part time hostess job.
Since, we have been getting in arguments frequently because she says it expected that a husband\'s role is like that of a father and he must be working everyday to pay all the bills and if there is not enough money to do so he must work harder. I beleive a marriage is a team where both man and woman contribute to the bills and chores equally. she says in Mexico woman have the choice to work or not and are not expect or should help pay for the bills.
We have no children and I am not the kind of guy who thinks a woman\'s role is to do all the cleaning and cooking and house chores. In fact, after I have 12 hour days at work at construction and she has 4-5 hour days as a restaurant hostess with a 7 minute walk commute, I still end up doing most of the cleaning, all the lunches (she get free lunch at work) all the dinners (she says she dosent do dinner) but eats it everytime I cook it.
My main question would be for Latino people: Is it true that in Mexico the man must burden all the bills and the wife does not have to contribute even though we \"share\" house chores like cooking and cleaning? Is it really like that in Mexico like she says?
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