[Army Air Corps]

One thing that I saw that really put me off marriage: my friends were all hen-pecked to death. At parties and dinner outings, all the women would talk about is how stupid and bumbling their husbands were.

I have seen and heard that all too often. That kind of disrespectful and emasculating behaviour puts me off the idea of marriage. Imagine if the men spoke of their wives that way in public.

[freepertoo]

I must stay in response to some of the comments about hen pecked husbands...as a woman, I have often felt sorry for men who are in these positions. I marvel at some of the things women expect of their husbands and my blood boils when I see it happening. It’s as though women expect men to be their personal slaves (”Change the light bulb, honey. Wash my car windows, dear...”) On the other hand, I have seen women treated horribly by overbearing men who treat them as necessary evils and can be very abusive. I really think that the problem may be that people just don’t marry the correct person for their personality type. They say opposites attract, and I think that may be a problem in these kinds of pairings.