"One Of The Only Times My Husband Shows Me Respect."

The sad state of affairs around modern masculinity's intersection with pregnancy (and, well, then the rest of life).

Lemme give you the old trigger warning up front that all couples, women, and men are different in how they approach life, and this is not about any one specific couple or person. Some husbands are great; some are shitty. This is life. (Same goes for women.)

I’ve had five women in the past 30 days tell me a variation of the quote in the headline of this article. Small sample size, yes, but means something. Three of the five were responding to this article about whether women have a “pregnancy kink.”

I think I actually mentioned the idea that “husband treats you better” as a reason why “being pregnant” seems very cool, even if you’re nauseous a lot and feel like you’ve lost control of your body in some ways.

I started reading (read: skimming) a book by Elise L., who I believe is the Chief Content Officer of Goop. The book is about how women operate around the “seven deadly sins,” and it’s kinda proto-feminist, but you also need to remember that Elise has a full-time nanny and her + her husband actually bought a health care plan for their nanny, and she calls her nanny “the third-most important person in my life,” which is a hysterical slip-up because she has a husband and two kids, so that's three people, so who is the nanny ranking ahead of? I would guess the husband. I laughed.

In this book,