Posted on 08/11/2018 12:27:31 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
9.) Be happy to see him. Free him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him. Listen to him.
10.) You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first — remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
11.) Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to be at home and relax.
12.) Your goal: Try to make sure your home is a place of peace, order and tranquility where you husband can renew himself in body and spirit.
13.) Don’t greet him with complaints and problems.
14.) Don’t complain if he’s late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day.
15.) Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.
16.) Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
17.) Don’t ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment of integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise his will with fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him.
18.) A good wife always knows her place.
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So where’s a photo to see how “young, good-looking or particularly in shape” you are? :-)
i recall reading Colonel David Hackworth’s autobiography in which he mentioned Colonel Glover Johns, his battle group commander (a hero from WWII and an author of note) when he was stationed in Germany.
Johns had a simple remedy for wives of officers coming home late from meetings and training.
“Ladies, you should be greeting your man at the door with a martini in one hand, and your panties in the other.”
In response, one of the wives pointed out the obvious: “Most of you come home so sloshed that you couldn’t tell the difference between one hand and the other.”
The war between the sexes will only be decisive when fraternisation with the ‘enemy’ ceases to exist.
As a recently married man i can tell you that it isn’t happening any time soon.
So are the post-menopausal drama queens that need something to b!tch about.
You forgot the cat cliches.
I was born in 1950. My parents bought a house in the suburbs in 1954 when my sister was on the way.
Dad commuted to work. Mom stayed home, didn’t even drive. We lived as close to a 1950s cartoon life as anyone could live.
I do not believe this “article” is real. I believe it is a late 1980s-early 1990s feminist caricature meant to further stir feelings of resentment/victimhood among young single women, and to make them less likely to become wives at the time of their peak fertility.
Snopes’s take is “fake but accurate”, meaning that it is a forgery produced by anti-male feminists but it tells an important truth about “how far we’ve come, blah, blah, blah”.
On that, you can each have your own opinions. My own is that the current correlation of forces is making men miserable, women miserable, children miserable (and scarce), and that if nothing changes our people are going to be conquered by others within the first half of this century, and that this state of affairs has been brought about or at least sped along by propaganda like this article, but, as always YMMV.
It’s fake.
No, it isn't.
It's a late 1980s feminist attack on men, husbandry, fatherhood, wives, and complementarian companionate marriage.
It's very cleverly done for making an impression on second wave feminist college girls, no person, man or woman, reaching parenthood in the 1950s would have had any trouble recognizing it as a fake.
Especially bad is the reply, "Yes, it's fake but accurate".
I was there. I grew up there, on Planet 1955, as did my sisters, my friends, my medical school classmates, etc.
It's true that men returning from WW II and Korea, and women returning from war production, widowhood, and constant dread of loss, tried to live and did live for a while with a somewhat exaggerated "gender binary", which was amped up by the explosion if suburbs and the rise in commuting.
The things my mom and her friends did in 1955 they weren't doing so much in 1960.
It’s a forgery.
Is that you, Dan Rather?
When do you think this forgery was created, and what do you think the intention of the forger was?
Debates over, “men, love your wives as Christ loved the Church” tend to glide over just exactly HOW MUCH He loved the Church and what He was willing to do for Her.
so you are saying that no man wants a woman to behave this way? I disagree, sorry.
Yes I am saying that no man wants a woman to behave this way, or rather, no man who does has any value or worth as a husband and a father while most men do have such value, and to imply to daughters (for whom this forgery was written) that this is or ever was normal of men is anti-male, anti-marriage, and therefore anti-civilization.
okay. i believe some men of a certain age do expect/want this in a wife, this is why there is Cherry Blossom magazine.
Have a nice rest of your day.
Well, perhaps they do. So what?
The premise of this fake article was to attack the fathers of the daughters who were exposed to it when it came out, and the reason it was composed and presented the way it was, was to portray such absurdities as COMMON among women in the 1950s.
so what? you are implying that no one does. that’s so what. U can’t have it both ways. and i’m done.
It’s fun.
I agree. I suppose, in part, because there's no way men could measure up to that but it is the standard set.
My point is that in a Christ-centered society, the command to submit is not an unfair one because everyone is submitting to the Christ and church so the men aren't getting off scot free in the arrangement. In fact, many men must submit to unfair and unholy bosses. Women did not have that additional burden back in the days when a two-income household wasn't so necessary.
I’m not the one posting about “How Husbands Should Treat Their Wives.” If I ever do, I’ll be sure and post my theater headshots.
I have an old book from the 1950’s called the Art of Dating.
Quite similar to this list of how a woman should act.
In the book it says that after you have married, a man will have needs. You need to be there to take care of him when his urges hit. You may or may not actively participate.
I don’t know about you guys but I’m buying a DeLorean with a flux capacitor. I’m gonna get it up to 88 miles per hour and go to a time where the women knew how to treat a man.
Amen
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