The Real Life Of A Stay-At-Home Husband

Brut India

He cleans the house. She pays the bills. Brut spoke to a couple mixing up traditional gender roles… and creating hilarious videos out of it!

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00:00I need money to run the house.

00:30It's the weekend, so you know I gotta let my queen sleep in, so I make her some pancakes.

00:37She likes them with chocolate chippies in them.

00:40Next I borrow my wife's credit card and I go get some groceries.

00:42I follow to end the patriarchy.

00:43We would see all these videos on TikTok where the wife was cleaning and it was as if the

00:48guy had never heard of any cleaning products, like didn't know how to do anything.

00:53And so we kind of like thought, wouldn't it be funny if we just flipped those and see

00:57how people would react.

00:58And people reacted.

01:15Really what happened was I was going to law school from home remotely, but Maya was an

01:20essential worker for her company and so she was working and making, she was the breadwinner

01:24for us and I was so thankful for that, but I felt like, yeah, I got to pick up around

01:28the house.

01:29I got to do my part.

01:30And you've always been better at cleaning.

01:31The funny thing is everything that he does in those videos, he actually does.

01:36I think where kind of the humor comes in is with the commentary.

01:39We added like the Home Depot sound to it to make it like a manly contrast.

01:44And then with my voiceover being like very confident.

01:48Today my wife has a case of the sniffy whiffies and nothing cures a cold better than an extra

01:52dose of equality.

01:54First things first, I do a core workout out of solidarity for the societal body expectations

01:58that all women face.

02:00When juggling your husbandly duties, it's essential to separate the lulus from the dryer.

02:03Well, I grew up with three little brothers and I was the oldest.

02:06And so my mom instilled in me a value of doing my chores, cleaning.

02:10You know, I had my set things that I had to do.

02:12And so I took that with me.

02:14My mom was actually the breadwinner in our house and she's the CEO of our family business

02:18and she's a really hard worker.

02:21So that was always modeled to me that like I could do that and that would be something

02:24that's normal.

02:25As I've gotten older, she's told me many stories of how, you know, she's been underestimated

02:30and people have thought it's weird and kind of maybe don't trust her as much.

02:33And that's something that I can hope that in the future, it's just not even a thought.

02:37Sorry, tough guys.

02:38It's a day in the life of a working wife.

02:41Hope you checked your misogyny at the door because I'm in charge today.

02:44While my husband takes care of the home, I slave away for the next eight hours providing

02:48for this family.

02:49We met our sophomore year of high school and we started dating.

02:53And pretty much right off the bat, we just became best friends and we like to joke and

02:56say like we just met.

02:57We're like going to be together forever.

02:58Yeah.

02:59OK, sounds good.

03:00So we have been together now for eight years.

03:02We just got married six months ago and we moved here together.

03:05We want to show a genuine relationship that has challenges, that has laughter, that has

03:11silliness, that has all these things that I think a lot of, you know, social media in

03:17general will try and buff out and try and hide.

03:21And we want to show that, you know, a relationship can be hard at times.

03:27Absolutely not.

03:28Never.

03:29We just never fight.

03:30Yeah.

03:31And I think that's a sign of a really healthy relationship.

03:32Yeah, absolutely.

03:33Are you kidding me?

03:34You're not going to let me get through a sentence?

03:35What?

03:36We can't even get through the sentence without you.

03:37I was agreeing with you.

03:38I can't even.

03:39So my parents actually got divorced a couple of years ago, and that was a time when our

03:44relationship was really becoming very serious.

03:46And so there's this thing where you're all of a sudden seeing like, oh, OK, this is a

03:50real life example of things not working out.

03:53And that could be something we're faced with.

03:55But ultimately, I think it made us a lot closer and I think it made us realize the severity

04:00of marriage.

04:01We got a couple of comments of people being like, well, if he's in law school, what are

04:04you going to do once he's out of law school?

04:06And he was like, I'm still going to clean and I'm going to take care of the home.

04:10And like, she will, too.

04:11Like we always do.

04:12You know, one day I may have a job and she may not have a job.

04:14And then one day she may have something that she really wants to pursue with her career

04:18and her aspirations.

04:19And I take a backseat.

04:20We hope that in the future that a video about a stay at home husband isn't trending on TikTok

04:25because it's just old news.

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