Vernonia, (Disclaimer here, this is based on my personal observations only!) Believe it or not, I would have to break it down by married vs. single for the most debt. Married women (or recently separated women) carry more revolving debt than single women. Single men carry more revolving debt than married men. Overall, if I had to break it down, sorry to say, the ladies have the worse track record for having credit card debt. That said, the ones I am really worried about are the folks that are cashing out the equity in their homes to payoff credit card debt, then do not destroy their credit cards....and rack them back up again. Bankruptcy laws are being changed, and it won't be long before these folks won't be able to walk away from their debt and will be forced into a restructure of debt. In this case, rightfully so. It's the families with the medical catastrophe that will never be able to recover, which is sad. (sorry, leaving soapbox now). Suz

Your responses to me in the posting "Baggage" has been helpful. I am the wife of the man who posted "Baggage". My biggest struggle right now is my husband forcing me (that is how it feels) to spend individual time with his son, while our marriage is in such turmoil. It seems like our marriage is conditional on me doing this. My husband and I have a daughter together and I have done things with them both, but he is only focused on my doing things with his son alone.

sashasmommy, I borrowed your graphic for my blog this morning. I wrote a post there, but figured I'd share the story here with you all. I just took down a gallery wall of pics, and was faced with a gazillion nails, which I then patched, sanded, and primed. I sent DH out to the garage to grab the leftover paint. I specifically said it was Laura Ashley Taupe 3 in satin. He came back with this. 5 cans of paint! Only one of which was taupe. He seriously looked at these splotches, and they all looked the same. DH - These are all the possibilities. Me - What?! DH - This one is Tea Room Yellow, this one is... Me - That(pointing)'s the one. DH - This one says Taupe 3 Me - Right. That's the one. Laura Ashley Taupe 3. DH - It says L A Taupe 3. Me - (Big Sigh)

@Carl Arnold, welcome to the cooking forum! And if you really are a person trying to join in, and not trying to drive traffic to some outside website (why I mentioned no link, but sometimes there's a post that's sort of on topic, and the link comes later), you really are very welcome. As Sherry said, we have problems with bots. Your post was overwritten—very beautifully—for this kind of message board. Your follow up was more normal in tone, but unfortunately the new AI is capable of it all. That said, while we do run to older females in traditional families, we try not to exclude our younger, male, non-binary, non-traditional, unique and diverse posters, and it's right to call us out when we fail in that. Your point about cooking roles being more dependent on individual skills than gender is on topic, and an important POV, no matter how many of us have experienced the calcified classic gender roles in the title of the post. I bought a little table top barbecue last year, and have a littler freestanding one that's cute, but harder to use, and generally too small. I'm not really into outdoor cooking, and don't live in a climate where it's necessary. My little barbecues make my menfolk snicker. They have big and bigger gas grills to cook on...but really only for outdoor parties. I don't get the point (it not being an outdoor kitchen for all cooking in too hot and humid for indoors weather). I think barbecues should burn charcoal and aromatic wood chips to be worth the bother. I use a chimney starter. Barbecues are bad for the air quality, however, so mine are minimally used. The ”outdoors” cooking for us is not a gender thing determined by cultural norms, just a combination of attitudes and druthers that fall that way, informed by weather and circumstance.