How to be the Perfect Wife (3951 hits)
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Submitted by Rokinroj <rokinroj.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-03-14 13:18:25 EST
How to be the Perfect Wife.
This was taken from Helen B. Andelin's Fascinating Womanhood. The course was designed to teach women how to be happy in marriage.
GET YOUR WORK DONE
Plan your tasks with an eye on the clock. Finish or interrupt them an hour before he is expected. Your anguished cry, "Are you home already?" is not exactly a warm welcome.
HAVE DINNER READY
Plan ahead, even the night before to have a delicious meal, on time. 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 prospects of a good meal are part of the warm welcome needed.
PREPARE YOURSELF
Take 15 minutes to rest so you will be refreshed when he arrives. This will also make you happy to see him instead of too tired to care. Turn off the worry and be glad to be alive and grateful for the man who is going to walk in. While you are resting you can be thinking about your Fascinating Womanhood assignment and all you can do to make him happy and give his spirits a lift. When you arise, take care of your appearance. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.
CLEAR AWAY THE CLUTTER
Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives, gathering up school books, toys, paper, etc. in a bucket or wastebasket and put them in the back bedroom for sorting later. Then run a dustcloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order and it will give you a lift too. Having the house in order is another way of letting him know that you care and have planned for this homecoming.
PREPARE THE CHILDREN
Take just 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 look the part.
MINIMIZE ALL NOISE
Especially give heed to this if your husband has to join rush hour traffic. At the time of his arrival eliminate noise of washer, dryer, dishwasher or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet at the time of their father's arrival. Let them be a little noisy beforehand to get it out of their system.
BE HAPPY TO SEE HIM
Greet him with a warm smile and act glad to see him. Tell him that it is good to have him home. This may make his day worthwhile. If there is any romance left in you, he needs it now.
SOME DON'TS
Don't greet him with problems and complaints. Solve the problems you can before he gets home and save those you must discuss with him until later in the evening.
Also, don't complain if he is late for dinner. Count this as a minor problem when compared with what he might have gone through that day.
Don't allow the children to rush at him with problems or requests. Allow them to briefly greet their father but save demands for later.
MAKE HIM COMFORTABLE
Have him lean back into a comfortable chair or suggest he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to massage his neck and shoulders and take off his shoes. Don't insist on this however. Turn on music if it is one of his pleasures. Speak in a soft, soothing, pleasant voice. Allow him to relax - to unwind.
LISTEN TO HIM
You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first, then he will be a more responsive listener later.
MAKE THE EVENING HIS
Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or to other places of entertainment. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure, his need to be home and to relax. If he is cross or irritable, never fight back. Again, try to understand his world of strain.
THE GOAL
Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit. Then add to this the application of all the principles of Fascinating Womanhood and your husband will want to come home. He will rather be with you than with anyone else in the world and will spend whatever time he can possibly spare with you. Try living all of these rules for his homecoming and see what happens. This is the way to bring a man home to your side, not by pressure, persuasion or moral obligation.
User Reviews
Submitted by Rokinroj (user info) at 2004-03-16 11:24:12 EST (#)
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Intrestingly I just read an article this morning in Time magazine called "The Case For Staying Home" and it is a study about the increasing numbers of parents (particularly women) who are reverting back to being stay at home parents for the kids sake.
It's a good read, if you want to check it out
http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/covers/1101040322/story.html
Rokinroj
Submitted by kgbpasha (user info) at 2004-03-14 17:39:56 EST (#)
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Nice classic. Now where's today's version?
You know, the one that includes blowjobs and
a cold beer...
Get with the updated version!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2004-03-14 17:26:10 EST (#)
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outdated but i like it :)
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2004-03-14 17:11:36 EST (#)
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hmmmmm, add blowjobs on demand and it would be paradise.
Submitted by jimbobjoe (user info) at 2004-03-14 16:54:50 EST (#)
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Ya know, there is definitely something to be said for the last line of this. It seems
to me to be the most important aspect of the idea behind these rules. You can look at this
in a few different ways, one is the oppression of women through household chores and quiet
obedience to their man, which is the way most people would look at this. Another way to
look at this is by getting that last line to jump out at you...
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This is the way to bring a man home to your side, not by pressure, persuasion or moral obligation.
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Seeing the job of housewife (and even househusband now) as something more than just the person
who stays home. They are the home-maker. The person who provides a home for the family.
Sure you could say whoever makes the moeny provides the home, but all they really do is provide
the means to make a home for their family, whereas whoever it is in the role of houseperson does
the actual home-making. Blah blah blah, you can figure out the rest of what I mean. It's pretty
simple, but the gist of it is that pressure, persuasion and moral obligation are the wrong reasons
to go home to your family.
Submitted by sublime (user info) at 2004-03-14 16:40:32 EST (#)
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that guy looks like gregory peck
Submitted by hidden101 (user info) at 2004-03-14 16:26:57 EST (#)
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written in the 1950's, but a timeless masterpiece to guide every woman!
Submitted by DraconianKing (user info) at 2004-03-14 16:18:30 EST (#)
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Was this written in the 1950s? Women shouldn't be forced to do stuff like this. It makes me ashamed to have a penis.
Submitted by Rokinroj (user info) at 2004-03-14 15:41:30 EST (#)
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Ya, I wish I could take credit for this gem, but alas it was written well before my time.
Aside from the blatant chauvinist/sexist content, there is a bit more subtle overtone of a different time, when this didn't seem as oppressive as it does now.
So on one hand the change for women over the past 50 years has been uplifting & liberating and in my opinion a good thing for them, but on the other, the divorce rate back then was 19% compared to 49% now and currently childhood suicide is the fifth leading cause of death among children 5-14 years old; a 600% increase since then.
It would be far too presumptuous of me to say that this is the only factor in those numbers, but certainly I think it is a piece of the puzzle.
Rokinroj
Submitted by K Stevens <Rabbit_Gurl2005.at.Yahoo.com> at 2004-03-14 15:40:15 EST (#)
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true true
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2004-03-14 15:15:12 EST (#)
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"never fight back." that made me laugh
Submitted by nathanscivic (user info) at 2004-03-14 14:05:08 EST (#)
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brilliant
Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-03-14 14:05:01 EST (#)
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Interesting indeed.
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2004-03-14 13:56:58 EST (#)
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There should be a category on here called Priceless and Timeless Americana.
Werd.
Submitted by MisterCeltic (user info) at 2004-03-14 13:41:15 EST (#)
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+1 for digging this up!! You should have included excerpts from chapter 2: "Mandatory blow-jobs and passionless sex on demand".