The good wifes guide..
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Topic: The good wifes guide..
Posted By: Hunnybunny
Subject: The good wifes guide..
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 11:53am
My Dad just emailed me this, telling me I Better start practicing for when DF and I get married... Thanks Dad!
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 12:15pm
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LOL I love that list - TBH its actually not a bad idea to try some of that stuff. DP loves coming home to a calm, ordered, tidy house with dinner cooking and Jake clean and happy and me looking nice and happy to see him, ready to listen to his day. Having a few minutes to put his feet up and have a drink means hes in a better frame of mind to help out with everything the rest of the evening too. He feels really loved and thats good coz then he makes me feel loved by doing stuff and cuddling and talking lots.
Course some of it is just BS  -------------   
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Posted By: Hopes
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 12:22pm
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I think it's the focus that's BS. I think that thinking of your DH's needs / tidying the house especially for him etc is really sweet. I haven't been known to put a ribbon in my hair (!), but I try to make a point of doing some of the other things (and I work too!).
However, the idea that the whole point of your life is to serve your DHs needs (which is how that comes across) is just bleh! Of course, I've seen that article before, and think I might have heard it's fabricated? It reads like that - surely even back in the 50's house-wife days, people wouldn't have written that? ETA - I http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp - snopesed it . I looks like there's no proof it comes from a 1955 journal, but there's no concrete proof it didn't either. So who knows? -------------   
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Posted By: jazzy
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 12:26pm
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My DH always send s me stuff like this....so I tell him I will fluff the pillows on the couch for him..cause that's where he will be sleeping..ha ha.
I try & have the place tidy & the kids relaxed when DH comes home, but things don't always go to plan when you have 3 tired, hungry, grumpy kids, washing to bring it & fold, dinner to do, baths...man the list goes on...lucky DH lives in the real world 
better get of OB & start on that list, hee hee
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Posted By: Babe
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 12:37pm
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I love the last one - 'don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgement or integrity...You have no right to question him' LMAO yeah coz I'm a mindless drone whos only purpose is to serve DP and live a life of brainlessness -------------
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Posted By: luvmylittlies
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 1:54pm
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Oh my grandmother has saved articles like this one. Even if this one is a fake that was definitely the attitude in those days.
I just about inhaled my coffee when I read "remember - his topics of conversation are more important than yours" and then it almost came out my nose after "you have no right to question him". I must be a bad woman. But because we're not married and just living in sin maybe I don't have to fluff his pillows or take his shoes off? ------------- Adoring Mum to Talisin 8/9/11 and Kiara 18/01/10 |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 1:58pm
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My DH is more likely to do that stuff for ME .
He knows I love him , he never expects dinner on the table (he prefers to cook ) , and doesn't expect me to treat him as someone more important because he earns the money . I've shown him this list before,(actually , i've posted this list on here before too ) and he thinks its ridiculous . As do I . ------------- 
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 7:54pm
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Don't show DH he'll want some of that. I noticed it was printed in 1955 even my mother wouldn't have behaved like that.
Thank heaven for the bcp women's liberation. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 8:18pm
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Haha my Dad read that out during his speech at my sisters wedding! Was sooo funny lol! It was his "advice" to her on how to be the perfect wife ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 18 November 2009 at 9:18pm
| i remember reading some of this in my mother's plunket book (so it was about my mother)....stuff about how "healing" housework is in those first few days after giving birth....and 'giving birth is no reason to let standards slip in the housework" |
Posted By: Treen
Date Posted: 19 November 2009 at 9:37am
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I think there's a good chance it is real. I got this email forward first about 10 years ago without the mock up. It didn't say it was from a women's magazine, but rather a New Zealand or Australian high school home economics book. Which would definitely be harder to find as it would have been a much lower print run than something published in the States or UK.
When my mum was in school in the 1960s, home economics was only taught to girls and she even had classes to teach her how to put on make up (3 strokes of nail polish per finger, apparently). So I think this is totally believable. Ooh, I'd love to find it. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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