Korean Job Discussion Forums

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

How do you act? Do you feel used?

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

?

If there is a valid reason for unemployement, maybe.
If he doesn't do his best to get another one, probably.

if it is your husband, try talking to him, i mean you did marry him for a reason?

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

It depends on the circumstances. Can you expand a little?

SeniorEnglish · Joined: 18 Jun 2006

There are dirt bags (people that are unproductive) in all cultures. My sister's husband does have a job. A friend of mine has a husband from Turkey that doesn't have a job. Typically, I think most men have jobs if they are married. But, this is the new millenia, I don't blame some for being domestic. I can blame them for willfully being bums.

steroidmaximus · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: GangWon-Do

Does he help around the house? Do the cooking, cleaning, laundry etc? If not, and you are the sole earner, and have to do all the housework (or even the majority), then you need to reassess your situation.

You need to elaborate if you want real advice.

Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

Its called equality. hello 21st century, men don't have to fit snuggly into those traditional hunter-gatherer roles any longer. Womens liberation freed-up men as well.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

My husband runs a business and sales are cyclical.

When his cashflows are good, he lavishes me with lots of things - jewelry, good dinners out, business class flights to anywhere I want to go. He is never mean with me or our daughter.

I always tell him that when things don't go so well, I have no problem or hesitation to support him financially, as well as emotionally (I do already anyway as his wife).

I won't feel used because a marriage is about sharing good or bad times. It'll be wrong of me to be mean to him when he needs me, especially when he is always so generous to me.

flakfizer · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:02 am Post subject:

I think you should shake your non-moneymaker.

jjurabong · Joined: 22 Jan 2003

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Why is this specified as to race and gender?

The Bobster · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

bestyoucanget · Joined: 06 Nov 2005

my wife has had two years off not working , watching tv and doing stuff all.....nearly caused a break up..........now the CV has been sent out
about time

JZer · Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Location: South Korea

The fact that no details were provided makes this seem like the OP is trolling.

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

I saw my post again (had forgotten about it), and I don't think I was trolling as much as trying to understand something at the time.

As I have mentioned previously, I am living in Korea and married to a Korean woman. No big problem there for me. I believe at the time I posed my vague question I was wondering about the role of the husband here and any culturally-specific things that may differ from that of a man in a western marriage. That's why I singled out Korean husbands.

And I also had a hair across my ass at the time of posting. Sorry. In retrospect, I should have just gone to sleep.

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

Sounds like she's not working cause she expects you to plant some seed and get on with married life.