When Doing Your Fair Share Leads to Despair

America’s Family Manager Kathy Peel Offers Solutions

to “House and Spouse” Dilemmas

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(Carol Stream, IL) –He works long hours. So does she. They share a home, children and married life—yet they are housekeeping opposites. Besides clashing over how clean is clean enough, they differ over what’s “normal” when it comes to managing money, celebrating holidays and who should be responsible for what. So, how do couples divvy up laundry, kitchen duty and other household jobs— fairly and without resentment?

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The Busy Couple’s Guide to Sharing the Work & the Joy by family management expert Kathy Peel (releasing January 2010 from Tyndale House Publishers) has answers. Lots of them. The award-winning author has complied solutions to household dilemmas large and small couples face every day. The book offers simple steps couples can take to promote peace, create a sensible division of labor and enhance family life in big ways—both now and in years to come.

Peel writes candidly about her family’s early years and painful seasons she and her husband Bill endured before realizing that simply doing one’s “fair share” wasn’t good enough if they wanted to create a nurturing environment for their three sons and keep their marriage intact.

“In good family management,” Peel observes, “50-50 is not the gold standard and good intentions are not good enough. If an equal division of labor was doable, husbands could carry their unborn baby for 4.5 months. If good intentions were the key, prospects for a lasting marriage would be better than 50-50 …which is what we’re looking at now.”

The Busy Couple’s Guide identifies the triggers that most commonly lead to household friction and provides helpful tools couples can use to improve communication, resolve conflict and restore joy to their marriage. Real-life couples share their stories of how they worked through problem areas in each of the seven areas of home management. Bill Peel speaks to men in special “advice to the guys” sections throughout the book.