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To: Mr. Brightside; mrsmel; ShadowAce; goodwithagun; najida; opus86; JoanVarga; frithguild; ...
"...the poor hub who married this nag on the homestretch of her libido."

Well put. She talks like she's the first but in our good ole USA women (not ladies) have been publishing books about this for a few years already.

Caitlin Flanagan writes about this in an article from a couple of years ago in Atlantic Monthly. She cites feminists who are out to embarrass their husbands like the author above. But she calls them on it and describes it accurately -- that sexual politics has become totally one-sided, favoring the woman, and that a woman out of love should get back into bed with her husband. The article is called "The Wifely Duty" but that is more tongue-in-cheek. Caitlin has published a book, and was interviewed by Stephen Colbert on his show within the last year or so. The interview is hilarious.

For those men who lament about the bedplay (or lack thereof) in their marriages, suggest you find the article and give it to your wife, along with Dr Laura's book on the "Care and Feeding of Husbands." It turned around my marriage a few years ago.

105 posted on 01/25/2008 10:33:22 AM PST by tom h
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To: tom h

The very fact that she would even publicly embarrass her husband like this leads me to suspect that she’s got more than a little blame to bear for his lack of interest in her. Yeah, a woman like her would really make a man feel like a “conquering hero” in the bedroom.


120 posted on 01/25/2008 10:40:42 AM PST by mrsmel
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To: tom h
I appreciate your kind words.

But like her previous experiences, the longer the relationship lasted, the more disappointing it became

This speaks about some sort of underlying issue - perhaps anxiety disorder, fear of abandonment, etc. When you get down to it, some people are just more capable than others.

157 posted on 01/25/2008 11:00:14 AM PST by frithguild (Credentialed "Arbiter of Conservatism")
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To: tom h
Caitlin Flanagan writes about this in an article from a couple of years ago in Atlantic Monthly. She cites feminists who are out to embarrass their husbands like the author above. But she calls them on it and describes it accurately -- that sexual politics has become totally one-sided, favoring the woman, and that a woman out of love should get back into bed with her husband. The article is called "The Wifely Duty" but that is more tongue-in-cheek.

And here it is.

169 posted on 01/25/2008 11:04:59 AM PST by ECM (Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
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To: tom h
that sexual politics has become totally one-sided, favoring the woman,

Glenn Reynolds' wife, Helen, has written quite a bit about this on her blog, too.

444 posted on 01/26/2008 5:27:42 AM PST by JoanVarga ("¿Por qué no te callas?")
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