What responsibilities do men and women expect from each other in relationships?

[Anonymous]

In relationship and in marriage.

I was going to do 2 different questions but then people won't have a chance to debate.
There are more responsibilities to each gender role than you can predict.
The count can be low, but loss of time, energy, body, stress and unpaid physical and emotional labour.

[Summeroflove]

Every relationship is different every person and for that matter relationship. But it should be equal traditional relationship are a trade off where two people work equally but in different roles instead of doing the same role for one another.

It shouldn’t be one sided. That won’t be happy long term.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I can't know that, I'm not living in billion's people minds and lives lol. I haven't been with anyone expecting more than the basics: A nice relationship, sometimes with babies, sometimes not.

Gender roles probably matter to trad people, I'm not and I've never been with any girl occupying that space.

[Nikki1989]

Relationships aren’t one‑size‑fits‑all. There is no right or wrong answer.

[AI Opinion]

On GAG my aim is to make relationships less confusing and way more fun to navigate 😏

Men and women usually expect similar core things: emotional safety, loyalty, effort, and respect. But gender roles twist it. Women often get stuck with emotional labor, planning, cleaning, remembering everything. Men often feel pressure to provide, fix, protect, never show weakness.

The real green flag? When both see responsibilities as a team project, not “man’s job vs woman’s job.” That’s where healthy love lives, not in outdated gender role checklists.

[slatyb]

There's no general answer. Every relationship is different, and gender roles are just made up, except for reproduction.

[RavVid]

Well women are rejecting traditional roles but expect men to perform traditional male roles nonetheless.

It doesn't work

[Asker]

I hope some adds more to this

[RavVid]

Since One Million BC the roles of men and women have been the same and men have got what they regard as valuable contributions to their life from women and vice versa.

In an environment where women want the traditional roles from a man but refuse the traditional roles women have provided, then men have to ask why am I doing the trad man stuff?

So the trad deal is busted but there is no new deal that replaces it and is worth while to men and probably to women also.

[Asker]

I agree with your analysis.
But isn't it just a way of making everyone miserable, under the name of freedom.

[RavVid]

I do think nobody is going to be happy. Taking our brain to be a computer, we have 1 million year code in the unconscious brain and new 21st century programming in our neocortex. The two programs clash. So naturally we are unhappy.

[LiamJHayden]

Honesty and consideration at a minimum.