[hopespringseternal]

Dissing your man to other women lessens the likelihood one of them will try to poach him.

But treating him like dirt is a good way to encourage him to trade up to a less whiny model.

A woman who tears down her husband is fouling her own nest.

[Black Agnes]

Discouraging poaching to ‘female friends’ isn’t the same thing as treating him like dirt.

Easy solution to this problem is simply not having any female friends.

[Ted Grant]

My mom has the strategy that beibg overbearing nag to her children spurs self improvement.

It’s never worked, but she’s sticking to her strategy as her children are in their forties