[Go Gordon]

While I don't agree with everything in the article(e.g. I'm never hungry when I first get home from work), in the 50's a wife respected her husband. Nowadays, most wives truly don't know how to treat their husbands with respect, dignity and compassion.

[BossLady]

They forgot this one:

19. Greet him at the door wearing nothing but red 4 inch pumps and a martini in hand....

[fish hawk]

You are so right. This is why Dr. Laura wrote her new book.

[familyop]

Then the socialist Betty Friedan came along and propagandized women into being more "independent" from marriage.

Now most women are brainwashed into expecting to have unobtainable perfection in husbands and no responsibilities to their marriages at all. When they find their next men, they may file accusations against their husbands to have them removed from their kids' lives, public life in general or even unconstitutionally imprisoned for no more than debts or accusations.

Both political parties subscribe to this and believe men to be responsible for their children by their wallets. This includes waffling Wade Horn and his boss.

Our country is quickly becoming a ghetto with children being relegated to lifestyles of illegitimacy while their fathers are alive. It's a country that promotes adultery and pays for it with money extracted from enslaved, alienated fathers.

Begin, after all of these years of immorality, to teach our daughters to do what's right in marriage. Repeal the VAWA, the Child Support Act and all no-fault divorce laws.

Stop allowing our media moguls who pretend to be conservative from projecting their filthy lifestyles (trading their wives in on new models) and false accusations (that all husbands are evil fools) on good working men. Our leaders are, for the most part, not morally fit to be leading us.

http://familyops.us/columns/lemasters/Driving_the_Divorce_Rate.html

Otherwise, young men will be increasingly and rightfully afraid to marry or identify themselves to young women. Our resulting nation of singles will vote perpetually Democrat, sooner or later. Mao, Engels, Marx and Lenin knew well wrote of the necessity of feminism to precede socialism. Stop spreading the romantic, pagan filth of Henry and Harriet Beecher, Susan B. Anthony, and all like them. Find and elect politicians who have absolutely no illuminist, northeastern heritage--not even through their grandparents.

http://familyops.us/anthonyproject/

http://www.marx.org/archive/marx/works/subject/women/index.htm
Karl Marx On Women and Frederick Engels

Mao's Little Red Book on Women
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Documents/Mao-31-Women.html

Some of Lenin's words on women
http://www.marx.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm

[proud American in Canada]

I've seen this before.

As a wife, I have no problem with this. What is wrong with trying to make your spouse/partner's life happier? What's wrong with trying to make others happy?

I don't mean people need to subject themselves to abuse, but it's also true that there is nothing wrong with making an effort to make those close to you happy and comfortable.

[PFKEY]

I'm sure the reactions to this little gem are going to be a bit diverse.

Laughter, anger, a hey that sounds good to me to utter contempt for the ideas expressed.

I say this is exactly how a marriage should be. A happy marriage where both parties are satisfied and content.

How can that be you ask.

Well, it' like this...

A good wife will gladly do all these things and more if she has a good husband who is willing to do all the same things for her and is appreciative of these things.

Ok, you say but what is a good husband.

I'm glad you asked because I happen to be an expert in this feild.

A good husband above all else is faithful.

Loving, caring, williing to help out with any chore, routinely does these chores because he seeks to make his wife happy and show his appreciation for all the many things she does for him and the family is they have one.

Exceptions:

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.

His topics are not more important. They are as equally as important as your topics. He will gladly discuse and ask about your day out of genuine concern and desire to be a part of it and you.

11. Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you.

True but this happens so rarely that you would never complain on that once in a blue moon accassion it does. He want to spend all or most of his leisure time with you. You are his best freind!

14. Don’t 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.

True for the late part but if he stays out all night there is a problem and it needs to be discussed. Of course a good husband would never ever stay out all night.

I think that about sums it up. If all couples acted this way towards one another then divorces would never happen.

Well, that is my advice anyway and it has served my wife and I well for nearly 15 years.

Hot passionate sex is always good too. Where both partners are free to do and say what it is that pleases then and the other gladly obliges.

And why you are at it tell your partner how beautiful or handsome they are and that their faults as they see them are in fact attributes and the very things that make you love them and/or lust after them.

[txhurl]

Interesting. Bummer the telephone & cable 'guy' had to mess up this perfect situation. :)

[onyx]

Interesting. My mother abided by all the rules set forth in the article and she died a happy woman.

[Hank Rearden]

This was published shortly before I was born.

I just knew I was missing out. Now I have proof.

[agrarianlady]

I really liked this woman's response. She has a nice web site about marriage. She thinks the "Good Wife's Guide" was written by a woman. "Women were each other's harshest critics back then, just as they are today"

http://www.andtheylivedhappilyeverafter.com/66.htm

She writes a "Good Husband's Guide". I found it rather convicting because I often do feel that my problems are larger than my husband's. Here are some excerpts:

* Always arrive home refreshed and happy - put your bad day or your confrontation with your boss, the traffic, the crowds or the physical exhaustion you might feel aside and try to arrive home as cheery and lighthearted as you possibly can. Your wife has been struggling with the children and the housework all day, she does not need to hear about how bad your day was.

* Be prepared to help with household chores when you get home - let your wife relax or talk on the phone since she has been dealing with these problems all day. Make supper for her often, and offer to clean up afterwards so that she may rest and feel appreciated.

* Never expect your wife to have contributed to the smooth operation of the household. She has had a busy day and cannot be expected to provide meals or clean clothes for you. Never insult her by asking her to do such things while you're out earning money. Be mindful always that your wife may think you are being sexist if you ask her to help make a home for your family as part of your partnership.

* Always be prepared to take over in caring for the children when you get home from work. Your wife has been busy all day and deserves some quiet time. Allow her to watch television or chat with her friends on the phone, go shopping or simply relax. They are your children too, and it is unfair of you to expect to come home from a twelve hour day and simply put your feet up.

© Leanne Bell

[viaveritasvita]

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[Gringo1]

Seconded.

[bai ren]

This is an OBVIOUS fraud.

the magazine "Housekeeping Monthly" never existed.

If anyone says they have a copy of the original article, ask them what was on the page before and the next page.

The date is a dead give-away.

May 13, 1955 was a FRIDAY.
Who ever hear of a MONTHLY magazine published half-way through the month, or on a FRIDAY.

And the advice - can you imagine a 1950s housewife still doing the laundry at 6pm or so, when husband comes home?

And the big about ignoring his fooling around.
Yeah, right on. A magazine for middle-American, church-going, stay-at-home moms telling women that!!!