You know chivalry is dead when...you have to bring home the bacon!

So I'm all for women power and all, but there's this trend where men think it's okay for the woman to be the bread winner.

Now I'm not saying that the man should be working his ass off while the woman gets to stay home and do nothing but there's this new trend where even if the woman is the bread winner and even if both people do work, the woman still ends up doing more chores at home. Case in point? If both the man and woman work, the woman will take care of the kids once she picks them up from the babysitters, will cook dinner and do the house work. What will the man do? He'll do the yard work. Seems like a fair enough trade right? Not exactly, especially since child care and domestic chores takes longer than mowing a lawn every now and again.

So is it now that the days are long gone when men used to bring home the bacon and women used to stay home and watch the children? Well it's not gone completely, but it is disappearing at a faster rate, especially since the economy is bad and the cost of living has steadily rose and the minimum wage is not rising as quickly.

Whether you decide to stay home and raise the family, have a full time job and take care of domestic chores or bring home the bacon and expect your husband to do the chores is completely up to you.

Maybe chivalry is dead when it comes to stay-at-home-moms, but as long as both parties are doing equal amounts of work, it shouldn't matter. Appreciation is key in any relationship to ensure that chivalry is not dead!