The Good Wife's Guide (Guys - You're gonna love this)

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/misc/days.doc ^ | 13 May 1955 | Housekeeping Monthly Magazine

[LtKerst]

You are an Evil person.

[samm1148]

Wow sounds good to me! What a concept a woman acting like a lady instead of failing abysmally at being a man. The divorce rate was alot lower then too.

[caryatid]

This is an actual guide that appeared 13 May 1955.

Someone with better computer skills (and a faster connection!) needs to find out if THE READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE has any archives. This is the standard guide to magazines and, as stated, "periodical" literature. I remember as a child in the mid-50s, seeing such women's mags as Woman's Day and Family Circle at the checkout counter ... for a nickle per magazine... but do not remember the one cited. Someone check it out somewhere other than Snopes and let us all know what you find.

[VaGunGuy]

I've been told that I look like Barney the Purple Dinosaur in the dark...I wonder what she meant by that???

[caryatid]

That should be: THE READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODIC LITERATURE. Sorry.

[FeliciaCat]

Is that for real?????

[.30Carbine]

This list begins with a false assumption for our day - an assumption that would have been universally true in 1955 - namely, that the husband is working.

(;

[teenyelliott]

Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't.

[teenyelliott]

I wish he'd go back to rolling dice, and stop creeping me out.

[.30Carbine]

That is. I've heard it quoted elsewhere!

[VaGunGuy]

sheesh, don't be so harsh. I often stay out all night for weeks at a time. It's not by choice, that's when I'm scheduled to work.

[T.Smith]

Except that he moved you from TX to PA?
(I'm assuming, of course)

[caryatid]

bump for the houseslave

Did you post to the right person? LOL

No slave here. He said when we married that he would make the living and expected me to make the life worth living. We have both kept up our side of the bargain. No two people have ever had a happier marriage.

O.K. ... Don't bring on the Viking Kitties!

Plenty of you have been as happy ... but not happier!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

And back again........Houston - but I'd follow him anywhere ;^)

[processing please hold]

I've been told that I look like Barney the Purple Dinosaur in the dark...I wonder what she meant by that???

I'm not gonna touch that one with a ten foot pole. hahahaha

[caryatid]

And back again........Houston - but I'd follow him anywhere ;^)

Lucky him ... lucky you!

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Thank you - I like to say I'm smart enough to know a good thing.......

[JamesP81]

I don't feel less for being here running the house - I also don't feel he should come home and "take over" - it isn't about power or who brings in the money, it is about having a haven for our family - a peaceful place where we are safe and happy.

I agree in principle. But with that said, I think it is generally better for children if one parent stays home. I believe it strongly enough that if I ever find a woman desperate enough to wed me and have children, and if she doesn't want to stay home, then I am happy to do it myself. The Bible says to raise your children up in the instruction of the Lord. I am a Christian. I take this stuff seriously, and we all know that our children probably aren't going to get the instruction of the Lord from the public school system in this country.

[tongue-tied]

And a June Cleaver type is okay. But she'd better be "adventurous" too. And more independent than old' June...

It seems to me you dated some nice, but perhaps too reserved, guys. Oh, and also sounding like Neanderthals. (None of my business, and not even my place to say. Just making use of the bandwidth...) It is all in fun.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Staying home isn't always an option but I am fortunate to have done so for most of our marriage. I homeschool my son, but our daughter graduated from a public high school.

Life isn't a one-size-fits-all -