Housewives Destress Your Husbands!

My boyfriend and I live together now for four years and I was the higher income earner so I chipped in quite a bit. For eight months now I no longer have any form of income and that stresses me more than it does he, unless he just doesn't say much about it. He has always been very self sufficient whereas he did his own laundry and cooked and cleaned. So what I try to do is do all I can for him while he is at work so that when he comes home he doesn't have to do anything around the house. Whenever I make a little income online I treat him to special home made dinners and try wherever possible to pay a tiny bit of something. I think this helps although it is a major change from what I was able to do before.

we both work and we only see each otherevery weekend so as much as possible we avoid talking about work. so everytime he comes home on Friday night, i cook him dinner, he do the dishes, we play with our daughter, i give him a nice massage until he fall asleep. saturday is a movie marathon day. sunday we go to church and then we stroll the streets with our daughter and let him ride his bike.

How would you like to be treated if you were the sole income person? Fix his favorite dishes when you can. Movie night sounds fun. Texas Ranger was a good show. Massages when you think he is stressed or overly tired. Take some of his load off if you can too. If he has things at home he usually does maybe you could do some of them. You don't want to go too far with that though because you will be getting a job soon.

giving him a massage and a comfortable and clean house when he gets home from work,i think with that, husbands will somehow feel relax.

I try to be his best buddy. I listen to him talk about whatever it is he wants to talk about. Right now he is into mountain biking so I listen about things like muddy trails, full suspensions, lightweight frames and Diore XT group sets I pay attention so that he could get a decent conversation from me . He sounds happy whenever he talks about these things. Whatdya know, maybe one of these days, I would be buying my own bike and do trails with him too Have a nice day!

I'm not married so I'm not sure if what I do would work with a husband but to get 'destressed' me and my girlfriends have a homespa day. We apply homemade facial masks and massage each other's backs with matching spa music that we downloaded. I know it's girlie but who wouldn't like a good massage right?

me and hubby used to just set and listen to the radio or play tapes Music is very relaxing

hi somecowgirl oh walker texas ranger,I loved that. that should bring some of the stress level down. lots of popcorn and some friendly chitchat would help. If you are the type who love board games dig out your favorites and have fun. Play chess, try to get him to really win by fudging a bit. oh speaking of fudge. chocolate for me is a great'de stressor. bet guys love chocolate too. also how about a bowl of ice cream, favorite flavor for hubbie while watching Walker. I envy you two as that was one of my favorite series. lol lol.

I would let him talk daily about his job when he wants too. We would take the children to the river on our property and lie in the water and chat. Later, when we had children we dammed a part of the river and turned it into a swimming pool and go there every evening in the hot weather or else when he needed to thinks things out. sometimes, when especially worried, he would go to the pig pen and hose down th pigs with cool water. He would do that for hours sometimes until he had worked out a plan. Then he would come to me with the plan.I guess everyone has different ways of helping their husbands and vice versa in marriage.

hi somecowgirl, I was once a working mom but my husband had convinced me to resign when we moved in to another place for him to join a new company. The main reason was we have nobody to take care of our baby as our babysitter can't go along with us. Though I was half hearted to leave my job thinking that I would be totally dependent on him I've realized that it is for the sake of my son. Being a full time wife and mom is not an easy job but of course I need to be flexible. My husband is a hardworker and the only thing that can destressed him whenever he comes home after a long tedious day is by serving him his favorite dishes and give him enough time to sleep undisturbed. Yes, my husband is easy to please not to mention his golden rule never to argue with him when his tired and exhausted. Good day!

I know the feeling about being out of work. I am also out of work. I had applied to work as a Paraprofessional (an aid to a student who has a disability). I am hoping to get the job so I can make money. If not I am on the sub list so that should help as well. I am also into making crafts and am hoping to launch an esty site sometime this month. The thinks I make are pretty cheap to make and I feel that they will sell. I make bath salts and soap. I also make salt dough ornaments and I am trying my hand at felt ornaments. I know we need the money as well. My husband works parrtime and his hours keep on getting cut and his boss cheats him out of pay. Unfortunately, it is a small local company and his boss is also the general manager as well as HR. We are both in school which has been helping out a little. He is going for his Associates then his Bachelors. I am going for a Master's degree. I hope that with our financial aid money that this will help tremendously. We want to take a vacation this December (we want to see my parents for Christmas). How to destress the husband? I have also been looking for ways to do that myself. I have not come up with anything.

So your hubby gets tired or destress the word that you used I am not saying that i never get stressed but then I'm unmarried but what about you don't you get destressed doing all the home work like cleaning, washing the dishes and cloths and doing daily house chores. What would help well for me a massage would do the trick and not only the body but also the head I mean hair massage with some oil that really is relaxing. A good dinner but then most of all something different will always do the trick doesn't always have to be good some times it could be funny and other times it could sexy or maybe little bit of teasing in sexy way (of course)

Sorry ladies if I am barging in, but this was in my notifiers. I love the 'Keep it clean' address. De stress and distress sound remarkably similar. UK banking practice has made sure that the only way to own a home here is for both of us to work. I'd like to suggest shoot a bank executive a day. But that's not legally (though morally)practical. We have plenty of places to walk here, so I would suggest that if you can. Other than that, be yourself. Unfortunately if your guy feels a failure for not being better able to provide for his family(as I do)there is little you can do to change it: except hope that your love for him will see both of you through. Only recently a husband near us has seen no way out because of the banks, and killed himself and family out of despair.

I know how it is when the husband is the sole breadwinner in the family. A movie is always a good bet. But when there are children involved, it is more fun! We go out shopping, but not quite often. Most of the time, window shopping is what we do. At weekends, visiting friends and family makes him forget his work related stress. We try out new dishes together and invite friends to taste them. We stay at a city which has a beach. So a trip to the beach atleast once or twice a month is very relaxing. A looooooooong drive is a must. A trip to the local park for a walk too works for both of us. Hope this helps.

Walker: Tecxas Ranger? Did I hear that right? Woo hoo! You're my kind of people. I don't remember everything my mom did to get my dad to de-stress. My mom did work many years herself, but when she wasn't working, I could always tell when she was trying to make things better for him at home. It's not that she didn't do it all the time, but when she wasn't working, she could make more of a point to do it. She seemed to know what he needed without him even saying it.