I do wish everyone got to experience that sort of relationship, regardless of gender or orientation.

I was amazed when I had my first balanced relationship. I thought my others had been balanced, until we truly were dividing up work evenly and everything just felt… different. But in a really refreshing way. It’s interesting when there really are zero gender roles and you get to partake in a menagerie of chores/obligations that would be either traditional or foreign depending on your gender.

It feels very freeing. And it makes me wonder how on earth we ever started adding gender roles to various things in the first place.