Splitsville

Yesterday I watched this TV show about divorce. It's getting more common in Japan, the stigma seems to be lessening with more and more celebrities being part of the club. They basically had a panel of female and male celebrities who just argued about whose fault what was and it was pretty funny. Apparently arguments over the temperature setting of the airconditioning unit is a really common way for divorce proceedings to be started. The major gripes of husbands include;
- Wives not letting them eat their food with heaps and heaps of mayonnaise and sauce on it.
- When holidaying wife packs heaps of clothes for the kids and themselves but only a T-shirt for them.
- Wife asking them which dress/skirt/pants they like and then ignoring the suggestion and wearing what they already had decided upon.
- Cooking too much food for them.

And the women's gripes are;
- Hubby taking the occasional weekend off of work, taking the kids out and buying them everything they want that she already said no to weeks ago.
- Having to go and visit hubby's family every New Years rather than her own
- Asking what hubby wants for dinner and he says "whatever" and then complains about what there is at the end of the day.

It strikes me that most of these concern domestic matters, like it is obvious from the complaints that the women are still doing all the housework and cooking and apparantly even packing! Bloody hell if you can't pack your own bag then you deserve to spend your holiday in the same clothes. But I guess the men have to put up with housewives, which means that they get stuck with someone whose main preoccupation is getting the stains out of the kids' clothes. Actually the surveyed the audience and 80% of the men admitted to being bored by their wives' conversation! How's that for a happy marriage.