Posted on 05/25/2015 6:58:50 PM PDT by rickmichaels
In this still-fragile financial climate, some women might have chosen to hide the Chanel shopping bag from their budget-conscious better halves. With mortgages to pay and family holidays to save up for, it’s still not quite the done thing to blow half your bonus on something as frivolous as a pair of shoes (in this case a seductively glistening pair of Chanel ballet pumps in a classic French navy that I’d coveted for months), even if the bonus is something you have worked your socks off for.
But, instead of surreptitiously stuffing the shoes in the back of the wardrobe, I proudly displayed the results of my splurge to my husband, safe in the knowledge that he’d approve. After all, he’s the one who decided how much my bonus should be – and he’s the one who paid it. This year, as for almost all of the five years we’ve been married, I’m the grateful recipient of a “wife bonus” – and proud of it.
I’m part of a tribe of women uncovered by social researcher Wednesday Martin in her book Primates of Park Avenue — about well-to-do mothers in Manhattan — who, while not going out to work in an office or for a company, still receive a bonus from their husband at the end of the financial year as a sign of appreciation for services rendered.
But while the “Park Avenue primates” have been pilloried for supposedly receiving a cash reward based on how well they have balanced the domestic books, enhanced their husbands’ careers by networking adeptly and aggressively, and kept them satisfied socially and sexually, I believe that receiving a bonus for being a good wife is nothing to be ashamed of.
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For those, you would have to work off more than your socks!
I don’t know what to say to this. *smh*
Every day I feel more and more out of touch with this world and I’m not that old.
In the 50's the wife controlled pretty much the whole paycheck.
You come fallen a long way, baby!
Years ago husbands and wives worked equally on farms.
Then husbands went to work in the town and brought home cash.
Everything changed.
Her husband rewards her ability to do well and keep house.
Lovely. My husband does it a bit differently, but any man who appreciates a woman’s place in the home is to be commended. Her, too.
Yay, traditional roles.
Poor Little Rich Women
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Just tell the wife to do her chores or you will withhold sex, all married men know that wives can’t go more than a day or two before they are begging for it.
It’s hard enough to provide your wife with a car, health insurance and some time off now and then. A man can’t even pay a salary for what she’s worth, much less a bonus.
Placating the egos of these women who are lost without Oprah to justify their lives.
I thought legally everything was half and half. Giving the wife a bonus implies that the husband is the one who controls the money and doles it out to the "little lady".
Kinda what I was thinking. This is stupid. Since when did it become his/her money versus the family’s money?
Words to the wise....don’t marry this type of woman.
If my wife increases my allowance, I might be able to afford to pay her a bonus!
For some (not all, of course, don’t attack me please, ladies) the husband is little more than an ATM with no PIN.
A comedian once said: My wife and I have an understanding. What’s hers is hers and what’s mine is hers.
Of course, there are exceptions.
An attractive young lady I knew several years ago kinda freaked me out one day. She worked at a place I frequented. Walking up one day I heard her declare to someone on the phone ‘Well, that’s after I get half of my first husband’s money’. She was not engaged nor even dating at the time.
Can we assume from her comments that she is pro traditional marriage? We should thank her for her support!
More power to this woman. I get my shoes on clearance for around $7.00. And I’m picky about fashion, just can’t afford Chanel.
A monetary bonus for being a stay at home mom - LOLOLOL! A well adjusted happy child is the wanted outcome, not a pair of Louboutins.
These women don’t watch Oprah.
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