Study: Husbands Cause More Stress Than Kids
Some women like to joke about how their husband can feel like having an extra kid, and new research offers some insight into why that is. According to Cafe Mom and a new survey of 7-thousand U.S. moms, they stress out over their husbands twice as much as they stress over their kids.
I say this all the time! That is why, for the first 3 years of my kid’s lives I refused to travel on an airplane with my kids AND my husband. I would always send my husband on the flight right before ours and tell him his job was to go get the rental car ready and the hotel checked into then pick up me and the kids. Flying with my 2 young boys was way less stressful for me than adding my husband into the mix. I know I am going to catch a crazy amount of hate for that but my husband would get antsy if the kids weren’t perfect angels and in return, he would stress me out. Kids are kids they are not going to be perfect all the time, and as a parent, you have to roll with it. My husband was always so worried about what the people around us would think if our 18-month old screamed his head off the whole time… and my answer is that they would think we were doing our best!
It reveals that the majority of moms are extremely stressed, as they rate their overall stress level at an 8.5 out of 10. And nearly half of them (46%) feel that their husbands cause them way more stress than their children. That may be because three-quarters of moms feel they have to do all the household and parenting chores, otherwise the work won’t get done.
The mothers in the poll also shared some specifics about how their husbands make their jobs harder:
- “A 7-year-old is going to be a 7-year-old, but a 35-year-old acting like a 7-year-old is more stressful because they should know better,” one mom explains.
- “I am exhausted emotionally and physically when my husband comes home,” comments another. “He feels like another job.”
Source: Cafe Mom
