Looking after your man guide, omg if true.

[Hawkins001]

Not sure how accurate this is as just seen it on Facebook, normally I don't begin threads, but omg if this intelligence is accurate.

I think it's a joke and from the 50s. To be sure,.men want to get back to that, but fuck that noise.

As someone born in 1955, yes it's totally true and standard. My mother had two large volumes of housekeeping books entirely full of this bollocks. She was miserable. Forever.

Holy smokes

It's from the 50s, most of that was standard expectations of a 'wife'.

This has been doing the rounds on socials for years. Yes it is accurate for the time. Very much how a lot, if not most, women lived.

Pretty standard for 70 years ago, then along came Cosmopolitan which added the sex part too.

@Hawkins001 further to which, the experience of seeing how miserable she was turned me into a rabid feminist at the age of fifteen and I still am at the age of 67.

I think my dh would have me follow all of this if he thought he could get away with it

When I read that guide I was like, say what, and omg 😲.

I cant read ot but im sure I've seen it before.

Depressingly enoughloafs of women seem to still agree

Now I know where I've been going wrong - I always forget the pretty ribbon in my hair.

Hmm I think my FIL must have wrote that........... and he recited it to DH daily during his childhood.

Only DH got me and not an obedient version

There's loads of that which is twaddle but some of it is just being loving surely?
If i am at home while dh is at work then i will tidy up before he comes home so it's nice when he gets back, same with getting dinner ready.

Yep I've seen that 1950s bollocks somewhere before.

This is quite real, this is how women were expected to behave and loads of this type of thing was published. It was also taught in schools.

I think it’s not such a bad formula for a successful partnership if one person is working all day and one is a sahp.
If the man was the sahp, tea on the table, kids bathed with pj’s on, nobody ready to bombard me with dramatic tales about the days events. I mean I wouldn’t expect a ribbon in his hair, but a tidy zen environment and happy peaceful kids I’d think was fair enough. 🤷‍♀️

I had an old mrs Beetons household manual printed in the 30s, it was pages and pages of this exact bollox.

This is why second wave feminists fought for women’s rights. We know what it used to be like and how fragile our gains are really.

LOL

I find it funny in a OMG that’s so ridiculous it’s laughable but then at the same time I don’t. Quite horrifying to know it wasn’t that long ago and the gains can seem fragile at times like a previous poster just stated.

You can imagine it on here:
‘aibu ? I’ve just worked a 12 hour shift in a&e. Husband is a sahp. Every night I return home to a house strewn with homework and clutter. The kids are running riot with food all over their faces. Dp is wearing his old jogging bottoms covered In puréed sprouts and hasn’t shaved for a month.
we have no time together because as I walk through the door he starts hoovering and doing the washing. Every night after my shift I end up eating a microwave meal as he hasn’t cooked, and the food budget has gone to pot because he never meal plans. We’re wasting money left right and centre while I work my ass off to come home to a shit tip . On top of this, as soon as I walk through the door , he confronts me with a list of problems and offloads all his stress on to me.
I need time to decompress! Aibu ?!!!!’

I devini

I just showed this to my husband and he said he didn't think I would have made a very good housewife back then 🤣

Some of that stuff could have been written by my DD's MIL.

No, my DH is very happy in the kitchen right now. He's listening to rubbish (putting it politely) music and drinking a glass of wine I left on the side while cooking tea😂(in my defence I left the house before 7am for work, got home 40mins ago).