How to be a good wife, 1950's style...............

[Northerner]

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But still makes me

Did people ever take this seriously?!!

bollox to that.. my dh gets handed a snot covered cring baby when he walks thru the door

I reckon that was met in the 1950s in the same way that Anthea Turners towel folding has been in 2006. ie WTF????

But that's exactly what I do of an evening when my beloved comes home. Don't you all do that too? I mean, they have been at work, while all we have been doing is a little light housework...

"Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low soothing and pleasant voice. Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgement or integrity."

Have passed this on to my dh, as he is a SAHD I assume his job is to provide for my comfort and not question anything I do. Next I will start him on towel folding.

have seen this before and love it!
makes dh laugh too.
his mum used to do all of it! (dh is 25!)

dh's mum still does. she asks permission to do things! (dh is 32) had a bit of a wake up call with me!

me and dh have just read this together and i laughed all the way through it. Suprisingly dh thinks its a marvellous idea and wants to be transported back to the 1950's.
Apparently if we all did this we'd 'spend less time fannying about on mumsnet talking shite to each other' direct quote

"bollocks..." that's a direct quote too! One of the most direct you can get
good job there's no "mansNet" it would just be about beer and sport and grunting at each other

Isn't this a piece that Aloha researched, could find no authentic source, and concluded that it originated as an SM fantasy?

I've read this before, it is funny.

SM fantasy Blu? Wot's that then? Small Man? Seventies Man?

Mosschops at your DH - harsh but true.....

I'd happily be a 1950s wife if things had turned out the way I'd planned - that DS's father had wanted to marry me and support us.

I'm truly sorry to let the side down but I'm of the 'love, honour and obey' school - that sounds awful in this day and age, after all, I can buy a house, drive a car and vote and sound off as well as any man, but that's the way I feel.

Sorry.

Planned is the wrong word there - hoped is better! I didn't trap ex into fatherhood, quite the opposite actually.

don't get me wrong, I am a lovely wife. I do all the housework, wash, iron and put his clothes away. Usually have dinner ready when he gets home, pay all the bills etc, but I do it cos I want to, not cos it's my duty!