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The Good Wife's Guide (5/13/55 Houskeeping Monthly)
Housekeeping Monthly May 13, 1955
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Posted on 03/05/2004 5:24:16 PM PST by Go Gordon
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While I don't agree with everything in the article(e.g. I'm never hungry when I first get home from work), in the 50's a wife respected her husband. Nowadays, most wives truly don't know how to treat their husbands with respect, dignity and compassion.
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:24:17 PM PST
by
Go Gordon
To: Go Gordon
Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. Things were kinky even in the 50's......
To: Go Gordon
Moslem, are you?
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:27:59 PM PST
by
Grut
To: Go Gordon
Sage advice.
To: Go Gordon
"Don't complain .. even if he stays out all night."
Just call the cops.
Is this article serious?
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:29:31 PM PST
by
Burn24
To: Go Gordon
wow
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:29:34 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(Resolve to perform what you must; perform without fail that what you resolve.)
To: Go Gordon
Dr. Laura
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:30:08 PM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
(The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. --- Kahlil Gibran)
To: Go Gordon
. Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him.At least this brings it into the 2000's! :-)
Actually, I do all of these things every single day, honest I do! :-)
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:30:45 PM PST
by
ladyinred
(democrats have blood on their hands!)
To: Go Gordon
I've gotten this in emails. I thought it had been exposed as a hoax or urban legend.
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:30:50 PM PST
by
Nea Wood
(Dude, where's my country?)
To: Go Gordon
Don’t complain if he’s late home for dinner or even if he stays out all nightah...right.
A man had to have written this list.
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:30:54 PM PST
by
CaptainK
To: Go Gordon
Wow...kinda old school.....definitely......but I do see a lrger point here. The point is for a woman to treat her husband as a blessing, not a curse......and if she does, he will do the same. Show me a woman where I live (mid GA) that isn't completely self-centered B****, a single mommy, or just a slob in general and I'll change my mind.
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:33:06 PM PST
by
musical_airman
(Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure)
To: CaptainK
A man had to have written this list. That was my first thought, too! LOL
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:33:53 PM PST
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: nathanbedford
... yeah, for women who are not lesbian man-haters, and actually LIKE the man they married...
Of course, things have really changed in the last fifty years.
Big time.
we have lost a lot of grace...
at least the lesbians and gay guys can now get married, right?
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:35:09 PM PST
by
Robert_Paulson2
(smaller government? you gotta be kidding!)
To: Leroy S. Mort
Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him.Har - today that translates as "when your husband comes home from work, give him a suprise and be making out with your babysitter in your bedroom."
To: Go Gordon
I suspect a few sentences have been added that weren't in the original--the one about not complaining if he stays out all night, for example.
My mother was a 50s mom, and she actually did that stuff, including having us wash hands and faces before Dad got home. She let us greet him with hugs and kisses, and he always looked like his heart was opening up as he came through the door...after our hugs, we stood back and teased while Daddy kissed her...
I wasn't as good at that as my mother was, sometimes I greeted him with complaints...wish now I had been. One thing I love is for my husband of 34 years to feel respected by me, loved by me, welcomed by me...he always lights up and says home is his sanctuary...and shows it...
It would easy for a sophisticated woman to laugh at this article, but I think men are justifiably hungry for peace and comfort in the home. I love the traditional role of man and woman in a committed marriage working together for the future of the family...we've been blessed in our 34 years together, but we've worked at it...
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:36:24 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Is life a paradox? Well, yes and no...)
To: ladyinred
I did these things, too --- and he died young. I heard nagging makes them live longer.
To: Go Gordon
It's not totally unreasonable (except #14) IF the wife doesn't have a job outside the home.
To: Go Gordon
14. Don’t complain if he’s late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night Well, apparently then "staying out all night" did not carry the connotations that it does today. Then, it probably meant drinking a bit to much with your buddies and sleeping it off in the back seat, parked in the square next to the courthouse (where it was safe).
Then, blowing off steam with your buds. Today... probably get you five years in the State pen. No wonder most Americans are frickin pi$$ed off at "government."
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posted on
03/05/2004 5:38:58 PM PST
by
TLI
(...........ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA..........)
To: musical_airman
**The point is for a woman to treat her husband as a blessing, not a curse......and if she does, he will do the same. **
Exactly!
** Show me a woman where I live (mid GA) that isn't completely self-centered B****, a single mommy, or just a slob in general and I'll change my mind. **
True ladies are out there. Really. :o)
To: Go Gordon
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