How to keep your husband happy

[rosethyme]

Are we all taking note

"Much less pressure on both parties and everyone has their role."

Except for the fact that 1 of the parties had no weekends, holidays or off-hours and was completely unpaid.

What I want to know most is who the hell had a dishwasher and tumble dryer in the 1950s? This is obviously aimed at rich women who had bugger nothing to do all day, and probably had staff.

My Nanna worked her arse off looking after her home and kids, cleaning for her elderly mother and her full-time working siblings, and taking in washing because she had a machine. My Grandad worked rolling shifts at the pit as well as growing veg and collecting glasses in a pub. He changed nappies, helped with homework, did a fair bit of food prep, and did all the "dirty" jobs like cleaning the windows and polishing shoes. Amongst his workmates, he wasn't exactly unusual either.

They were a real team, and what I aspired to in a marriage. My Nanna would have wet herself laughing at the thought of being privileged enough to act like this article.

Am laffing at those wanky, patronising Burt Bacharach lyrics! Especially the bit about not waving goodbye to your husband in curlers, so the poor man isn't forced to shag one of the "girls" from work.

Those lyrics are dire aren't they!

It's amusing to read in reverse, ie men comb your hair, fix your clothes up... don't think your should stop trying... husbands should always be lovers too... I'm warning you, girls will be girls

Kitkat your grand parents rock!
Maybe some people nowdays should be learning from them!

It doesn't apply when you have an equal marriage or one like mine where I earned 10x my other half - money talks as ever.

However in marriage it is a good idea of both partners have the amount of sex they want as that tends to keep things going. That will never be bad advice.

Thanks GreenPeppers they actually did rock. They set an amazing example for their children and grandchildren that life won't always be great, but it's how you deal with the shit together that matters.

They were married for over 60 years, and their children and grandchildren have racked up 141 years of marriage between us!

How the fuck do you rest and rejuvenate with preschoolers?!

That is highly amusing but, way too complex.

Stomach full, balls empty & you'll have a partner for life. It is that easy

I actually think if I tried to take my boyfriends shoes off for him or arrange his pillows and encourage him to lie down, he'd be think wtf! or he'd be hoping it was something kinky

I do feel a bit like a domestic goddess, that in our one week of living together. I've made a homecookef dinner every night but one!
Even had leftovers one night for him to take to work the next, so in effect I made his lunch too.
To be fair, it's more to do with the fact that we've started weaning dd, so
I'm super enthusiastic about cooking for her. But still!

Urgh, just endured the many layers of horribleness that is "Wives and Lovers". (why) I now realise why, "being on yer Jack Jones" is rhyming slang for being on your own!

Ear bleach time.

Actually, I'm going to

Works both ways though TheNaze not so much the balls empty (is there a female equivalent for that?) but my boyfriend knows if I'm hungry I'm a moody bitchnot at my happiest.

I was a child in the 50s. My mother, who was a real homebody after pre war years of being an ultra modern career woman, was never that sort of doormat.

When you read that article you can perfectly understand how valium and librium "mother's little helpers" as they were known were so widespread for housewives. Developed in the 50s, by the 60s and 70s they were widespread, leaving a silent addiction level among bored housewives.

Back in the days when children were seen and not heard. Maybe not micro managing children gave couples more time?