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I don't mean to offend anyone, by gender role I mean "roles" that society assigns and stereotypes. Like for example in my relationship, everyone says my boyfriend acts like a "girl", he likes to express his emotions, is sweet and sensitive. He is more comfortable when I take the lead. Naturally I tend to make decisions more, am more logical and I made the first move, etc. So I mean traditionally male or female roles. Obviously I'm a woman and he's a man and in all other regards he sticks to the male stereotypes: he loves football and tends to ignore my nagging when its on :-). I am very girlie when it comes to certain things, like shopping but I'm also very driven and aggressive and a bit of a tomboy and I most definitely wear "the pants" (yes I'm always on top and take out the trash lol) My boyfriend and I are very happy with our set up, so I'm just curious if there are other couples like that too, where the relationship dynamic is different? If you haven't would you try it?

Oh and also I'm not sure if people will misinterpret that example, so just to be clear everythings split 50/50, neither of us do more or less than the other, we just have nontraditional roles.