at home, or who takes care of domestic duties paid directly or not. I don't want to sound too much as real savvy on cohabiting relationships. I try my best and am very lucky that my mind was trained from an early age by the BBC World Service Radio to think differently to the people I grew up with and then came the Internet. I suppose there must be many others around the world like me. Unfortunately the family I was born in was very old fashioned in that the males were never supposed to do the housework even though my biological mother had been divorced and was the sole wage earner during my teens. It was so bad that on the last of a continuous repetition of events, the latter parent screamed at me because I came back from my job as a gardener with understandably dirty clothes. On my calm suggestion that I should be allowed to wash my own clothing from then on so as to not overburden her with work, I was screamed at with increased fervour, the sacrilege in the mere mentioning of it was the trigger. I left my then home to live in a tent in the local nature reserve until I was allocated a house by the local government. As I'm still single, overcoming my past, I've great pride in that I do all my own housework, even though it took a while for it to become second nature, and it doesn't