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.
You are an Evil person.
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.
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.
I've been told that I look like Barney the Purple Dinosaur in the dark...I wonder what she meant by that???
That should be: THE READER'S GUIDE TO PERIODIC LITERATURE. Sorry.
Is that for real?????
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Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't.
I wish he'd go back to rolling dice, and stop creeping me out.
That is. I've heard it quoted elsewhere!
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.
Except that he moved you from TX to PA?
(I'm assuming, of course)
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!
And back again........Houston - but I'd follow him anywhere ;^)
I'm not gonna touch that one with a ten foot pole. hahahaha
Lucky him ... lucky you!
Thank you - I like to say I'm smart enough to know a good thing.......
Life isn't a one-size-fits-all -
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