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Mark your wives: The 1930s marriage test
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | May 14, 2008 | Matthew Moore

Posted on 05/14/2008 11:09:56 AM PDT by OB1kNOb

American psychologists have unearthed a “marital rating scale” used by marriage counsellors in 1939 to assess the performance of wives – and the categories make interesting reading for modern couples brought up to believe in the equality of the sexes.

Women are awarded marks if they dress for breakfast, ask their husband’s opinions on important decisions and let their partners sleep late on Sundays and holidays.....


(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1939; bitterwomen; freepun; goodoldays; manhatersclub; mannhatersclub; marriage; rateurwife; stenchoffeminism; trouble; verybitter; wife; women
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And let the discussion begin...........(snicker)

My wife gets double demerits for #9.

1 posted on 05/14/2008 11:11:10 AM PDT by OB1kNOb
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To: OB1kNOb

lol me too. I just tell hubby rmember cold feet means a warm heart.

Lets husband sleep in on Sunday but takes children to church herself? Doesn’t fly, we all belong in church TOGETHER!


2 posted on 05/14/2008 11:15:17 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: OB1kNOb

Now you’ve done it!

The FR man-haters will be here shortly.
You are SO in trouble.


3 posted on 05/14/2008 11:15:35 AM PDT by woollyone (entropy extirpates evolution and conservation confirms the Creator blessed forever.)
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To: OB1kNOb

I’d think most of these could be applied to husbands as well. (I’d say wearing red nail polish would be a really BIG demerit for a husband!)


4 posted on 05/14/2008 11:16:01 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: OB1kNOb

I lol’d at #9.


5 posted on 05/14/2008 11:16:02 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Forget about it, McRino. I don't vote for ecofascists.)
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To: OB1kNOb

Is this one of those LDS threads? “Mark your wives”?? I only got one!


6 posted on 05/14/2008 11:17:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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I really didn’t get that one. What’s the problem with red nail polish? What color is acceptable to them?


7 posted on 05/14/2008 11:17:22 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Forget about it, McRino. I don't vote for ecofascists.)
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To: OB1kNOb
My wife gets double demerits for #9.

She should only get double demerits if she is standing upright at the time.
8 posted on 05/14/2008 11:19:09 AM PDT by posterchild ("Congress does two things very well: one is nothing and two is overreact." - Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga)
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To: kalee
Lets husband sleep in on Sunday but takes children to church herself? Doesn’t fly, we all belong in church TOGETHER!

I totally agree!

9 posted on 05/14/2008 11:19:20 AM PDT by OB1kNOb ("We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." - Ahmed Yousef, Hamas PM advisor)
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To: kalee

The man is, biblically, supposed to lead the family in religious matters, including discipleship and righteousness.

Ephesians 6


10 posted on 05/14/2008 11:20:05 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: lesser_satan

My grandmother always said that women who wore lipstick were whores. I suspect it’s that kind of thing.


11 posted on 05/14/2008 11:20:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: OB1kNOb

Gosh....I sure hope you ain’t married to my ex-wife! Does she have bad breath too? (if so, run like he.. the other way!) :0 )


12 posted on 05/14/2008 11:21:17 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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#5 Dresses for breakfast.

How many points for "naked at breakfast"?

13 posted on 05/14/2008 11:24:13 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
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To: OB1kNOb

My score is 3. I fail miserably as a 1939 wife.

I’d feel terrible about it, but yesterday, I chain-sawed down the overgrowth of bushes and trees and mowed the front and back yards. When my husband came home, I said, “Look what I did. Now you can relax.” I think I deserve extra points for that. :-)


14 posted on 05/14/2008 11:25:41 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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“Slow in coming to bed”.

Geeze. Maybe she’s cleaning the kitchen, making lunches, feeding animals, checking that everyone laid out their stuff for the next day, doing the load of laundry for the child that walked in at 9;30 and said “I don’t have any clean uniforms for tomorrow”, locking up the house, or actually sitting down with a cup of tea for the first time that day........


15 posted on 05/14/2008 11:25:41 AM PDT by Politicalmom (Better a leftist Dem with energized GOP opposition, than a leftist "Republican" with no opposition.)
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To: OB1kNOb; Petronski

I use my husband as a heating pad. I confess. I also confess to waking him up to take out the dog on many occasions and pestering him about consuming less beer.

OTOH, I do ask his opinion and yes even this enlightened day and age his opinion/permission before I spend extra money. For example, a new ipod nano :D


16 posted on 05/14/2008 11:25:51 AM PDT by cyborg (Living strong for my mother and my residents since March 12,2008)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Oh.


17 posted on 05/14/2008 11:26:09 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Forget about it, McRino. I don't vote for ecofascists.)
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She gets points for being jolly and GAY?????


18 posted on 05/14/2008 11:26:38 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Bill Clinton: HILLARY!'s other big ass)
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To: OB1kNOb

Mine too


19 posted on 05/14/2008 11:27:14 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: OB1kNOb

It’s only the 1st page of many. Not sure how many — maybe five or six.


20 posted on 05/14/2008 11:28:08 AM PDT by bvw
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