NIAGARA, Wis. — My husband and I have a fairly equal division of labor when it comes to household duties that evolved according to what needed to be done, whose abilities matched best with the task, and who was around when the job needed doing. For the most part, our philosophy has been that we both should know how to do everything in the event that one of us was incapacitated, the other would be able to take up the slack.

While I was finishing college, my husband changed his fair share of diapers and gave the nightly bath to our 3-year-old son, teaching him to say his “th” sound at the same time by repeating the sentence, “These are my teeth.” When we moved north and were living in the woods, we had to take our own garbage to the dump. My husband suggested I should learn how to do that a

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