:^)
Posted on 10/14/2005 10:20:29 AM PDT by add925
The good wife's guide
1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal(especially his favourite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed.
2. Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He has just been with a lot of work weary people.
3. Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
4. Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives.
5. Gather up schoolbooks, toys, paper etc and then run a dustcloth over the tables.
6. Over the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
7. Prepare the children. Take a few minutes to wash the children's hands and faces(if they are small), comb their hair and, if necessary, change their clothes. They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part. Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer, or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet.
8. Be happy to see him.
9. Greet him with a warm smile and shoe sincerity in your desire to please him.
10. Listen to him. 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 homeis a place of peace, order and tranquility where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.
13. Dont greet him with complaints and problems.
14. Dont 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. Dont ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will alwaysexercise his will with fairness and truthfullness. You have no right to question him.
18. A good wife always knows her place.
:^)
It's definitely fake. #17 is written in such an egregiously bogus way. Even someone who believed the sentiment it expresses wouldn't express it that way.
And judging from you really dumb photo on your profile, I doubt it's true, anyway.
You beat me to it! Ah, the 70's......
" Over the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, "
Put another log on the fire
Cook me up some bacon and some beans
Go out to the car and jack it up and change the tire
Fill my pipe and wash my old blue jeans
Put another log on the fire
Boil me up another pot of tea
Just throw another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.
You're kidding? You mean women actually needed a guide for that?
I thought it was genetic!
YOU don't have one? Don't you recall when they separated us boys & the girls in Health Class and handed them out to the guys? Where you out sick that day?
Me, too.
For any man who thinks that you have more sex after marriage, I have two words of advice (especially true today):
Stay single!
There is so much energy expended in raising kids (and I wouldn't change anything), that by the time the kids are in bed, there's nothing left in the tank.
BTW, it's even worse after they become teenagers! Even with a reasonable curfew, you worry yourself silly over them being out at nights. Plus, I'm having to teach myself Geometry (among other subjects) again, so I can check his work.
Back in the 1950's "gay" had a different meaning.
A good translation would be happy and flirtatious. Light hearted and fun. Never serious.
I get the impression that even though the authors are probably Democrats, they play more fair than most. Many of their articles are fairly supportive of GWB. And even if they had a bias, they give their sources and you can always do further research to verify their conclusions.
Ha-ha betcha can't fin....(Ping......THUMP!).............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
What was the divorce rate in 1955?
Well, I'm sure a lot less because there wasn't an attorney on every corner offering a divorce for $175. Not to mention, women were raised to be good little homemakers instead of being able to make it on their own if the no good SOB stayed out all night and came home with lipstick on his collar. Women swallowed a lot back then (get your mind out of the gutter) and have more options now than to put up with the Man Hunt-Woman Cook mentality brought on by generations of patriarchal group-think.
I guarantee my day as Mom, Domestic Goddess and Taxi Driver is 1000% more stressful than any so-called "hard day" at work endured by a man. If anything, his quiet day at the office is a haven, uninterrupted by hazardous spills in the bathroom, broken glass, whining/fighting among children (there's nasty, and then there's FAMILY nasty), ear infections, barking dogs, horrible daytime television options, having to endure the boring chit chat of hair, nails and newest clothing fashions with other moms at these awful play groups, sucking down what you'd REALLY like to say to his mother, etc. (LADIES, I'M SURE YOU CAN ADD TO THE LIST!!)
HE should fix ME a nice cold drink and build a fire after such a day.
What, nothing about greeting him at the door with a nice cold beer??
Conservative doesn't mean dead or A sexual...
I've been here for years my friend, and I've been conservative for years, but I am still a man and still happily married with a beautiful girlfriend, and they are good friends....
Actually I would hope others who have the ability could have what I have: when the girls get along it can be great for them and the guy......and no matter what you might think, if the quality of the time is there, the times when we aren't together is just for "doing other things"...
I must have missd the part about having your neighbors wife over to play twister.
I thought it was genetic!
What's genetic is to get your man to eat rancid spoiled meat and have him tell you it's the best he's ever eaten as you show him a little cleavage. ;-)
Official Alouette status: BOGUS
Want proof? Find one issue of Housekeeping Monthly. Any issue, as long as it is not the infamous "May 13, 1955". (BTW monthly periodicals are just designated as "May 1955," "May 13, 1955" would indicate a weekly periodical.)
Most large libraries will have an index of all American and British periodicals published during the 19th and 20th centuries. They will also have archives or microfilm of "Good Housekeeping" "Ladies Home Journal" or "McCalls" from the 1950's, even "Godey's Lady's Book" of the 1850's.
There is no archive "Housekeeping Monthly" nor does the magazine appear in "Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature."
And be prepared to eat cold pizza and drink warm beer, because I don't think supper will be first on the list. ;)
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