Looking after your man guide, omg if true.

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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 want a housewife from the 1950s on my work days!! Sadly DH does none of those things.

Although I can live without him putting a ribbon in his hair!

I’m very happy and fortunate to be born when I was. I would not hack it as a 1950s housewife. I think I would do a murder.

anyone seen the ' How to be a perfect husband manual', no didn't think so It never bloody existed did it ?

This is very much aimed at MC women, who gave up work as soon as they got married and never went back.

It's sickening in It's servitude and the ribbon is ridiculous, but actually if either partner was at home all day with little else to do, they're not, in themselves, unreasonable expectations.

Why are you surprised. It’s from the 50’s when this kind of shit was the norm.

I read my grandmother's baby care book from the '30s. One sentence that stood out was 'Put your baby to bed at 10pm and have nothing further to do with them until 7am.'

And that is why XH has an X in front of the H!!! Added to the fact he turned out to be a narcissistic cheater he expected to enjoy life as a 50s style husband!

A similar book that I once read, but on ' ladies etiquette ' it described the do's and don't of ladies cigarette smoking and how to smoke a cigarette elegantly, amongst other things 😂

Perhaps we need to come up with a new 2020's version...

My dd has her grandmothers book. It’s full of this stuff.

I have seen that before, it's probably fake.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/how-to-be-a-good-wife/

I'm early 50's and definitely not that wife, my Mum was and thinks I should be (even though I work almost full time).
One of DH mates told me early in our marriage that there was dust on my tv and I "wasn't much of a housewife" DH was less than impressed with him!

I'm early 50's and been married for about 20 years. My dad found a load of these 'tips' and read them out as part of his speech at our reception to much mirth.
I'd like to emphasis he was being very light-hearted and not serious.

Oh, I'd love to be treated like this. After a long drive home from work, to be greeted with a tidy house, with no noise from the washing machine, tea ready, a warm or cool drink and the offer of a lie down or to recline in my favourite arm chair. I'm there!

The print is too small for me to read.
Maybe my sight is impaired because of all the masturbating whilst being married to an incompetent H

It's comments like this that make me wish MN had a like button 😂.

I remember first seeing this when I was 17 and our Home Economics teacher showed it to us for a laugh! That was 20 years ago and it was just as ridiculous sounding then as it is now.

I’ve seen that sort of thing in college textbooks. My boyfriend at the time had a job of helping clearing out all the outdated books from the education library that had been inherited from the department of home economics.

My own mother had to get her degree in the department of home economics just because she was a woman, despite the fact that she was mostly taking the same art and marketing classes as my dad.

I think this is why so many wives ran away from home for a few days. Sometimes men needed a bloody good kick to help them reslide how good they had it. Not that it always worked

Realise

And then when he does come home

Wives and Lovers, song, (1963)

Hey, little girl, comb your hair, fix your make-up
Soon he will open the door
Don't think because there's a ring on your finger
You needn't try any more
For wives should always be lovers too
Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you
I'm warning you
Day after day, there are girls at the office
And the men will always be men
Don't stand him up with your hair still in curlers
You may not see him again
Wives should always be lovers too
Run to his arms the moment he comes home to you
He's almost here
Hey, little girl, better wear something pretty
Something you wear to go to the city
Dim all the lights, pour the wine, start the music
Time to get ready for love
It's time to get ready for love
Yes, it's time to get ready for love
It's time to get ready, kick your shoes off, baby

Or is this early postmodern irony

It's why there's so many women divorcing men now. The men want what their fathers had. Didn't stop to think if their mothers were happy though.

My mum sent me this a couple of weeks ago. No idea if it's real but it made us laugh.

It’s not particularly the cleaning/tidying up element of this which is so nauseating.

It’s the idea that a wife is expected to totally subsume her needs and those of her children to pacifying and entertaining the husband. As if they aren’t human.

My mum (born in the late 30s) had internalised a lot of this.