IRRESPONSIBLE HUSBAND (ELLYA)

 

Responsibility in marriage is a forever commitment to each other a promise to care, love, help and support each other for the years to come. It is important for each the individuals in relationship be ready for owning and accepting the responsibilities in either their words and actions. However, if a man is unable to carry out his responsibilities as a husband, many effect will affect their family life, especially for the wife, such as causing work-family conflict for the wife, adding to the wife’s burden, and leading to divorce

A few marriage is shown that it is found that the husband is contributing less to the relationship or being irresponsible towards it. When husbands tend to be irresponsible and the women have to take charge of things in their hands, it causing work-family conflict for the wife. While woman works more, she gets frustrated and the husband starts taking her for granted. Although work-family conflict can affect all employees, it is particularly important for married woman due to their roles as a wife and mother is a huge responsibility. So it’s always better if husband getting involved in sharing some of the responsibilities and duties with their wife

Other than that, wife’s burden will increase if they could not dealing with irresponsible husband. As we know, a married couple should combine their income and expenses and pay all bills from the combined total of both incomes. Unfortunately, some husbands just let the wife bear all the expenses just because the wife’s salary is higher than him. Both spouses should contribute to the household expenses to avoid wife’s burden increases and to be fair in marriage life.

Lastly, when wife have to facing irresponsible husband for a long time, it might lead to divorce. In several cases, wife always been the one to work while her husband is in and out of jobs, promised to go work but ends up hanging out with friends, relaxing and avoiding finding a jod. When this thing keep happen in marriage life, wife will definitely despair of living together and decided to divorce.

As a conclusion, there is no excuse for husband irresponsibility. He must be held responsible for his role as  a provider for the family. When spouses start to take responsibility about their marriage, the life will become so much better and there’s no longer gender inequalities between spouses in the marriage life.