Arme Schwein

When neighbour came to visit this evening she brought greetings from her husband "tell Annika that the arme schwein (doesn't translate but literally means poor pig) won't make it tonight". Fine. It's not like we have nothing to talk about...now 5 hours later we have covered the most important topics. Mind you, there is still more but we focused on the recent stuff. One subject that sticks to mind is that her husband is doing the tax returns each year, all the while she's doing all the rest of the paperwork every month. Yet he gets the credit for being the admin in the family. Then of course she's the one cleaning, cooking, shopping, making the beds, seeing what needs to be done etc etc. Makes me wonder, who's the "Arme Schwein"?