fascinating womanhood what do you think?

[HarkTheDragonIsAYoungChicken]

I dont want an argument just wondering out loud.

Most of it is utter rubbish 'Childlike anger' .
But can you take anything any of the lessons from the book and make them work?
I don't mean obeying or always changing your mind to whatever DP wants, but accepting him completely not having fixed ideas most of the time, and not letting your self or your house go to pot if you can help it.

Are these good things to aspire to?
Or should i chuck out my grandmas book once and for all?

Yep chuck it out!
Obviously accept your partner for who he is. For your own self respect, take care of yourself but ensure he accepts you as you are. Both partners are responsible for the living environment.
Not being supposed to go to work and dedicate yourself to looking after him and the house is a very outdated view. What about your ambitions and interests?
I would not wish to marry a man who really wanted this sort of wife. It's nothing to do with the staying at home issue, I'd love to do that for a few years. It's the not being an equal partner.

Ha ha, too funny... I started a thread on that book a couple of years ago and it ended up in the Classics section.

Look for something like, Anyone Fancy Tying to be a Stepford Wife with Me? The MN answer was a massive NO.

I still rate the book!

When I read the title I thought OP was entertaining the idea of a gay relationship

Beautiful, really did it work??

JFTO

Why would you want it to? Aren't you ok as you are?

We're fine was just wondering if people could actually live like that. I am as guilty as the next person at only seeing the bad things, still not gunna follow that book though

Having looked this up online, I reckon XP would still be DP if I'd subscribed to this. Most of his complaints about my failings are listed in there somewhere.

He'd have been happy. I'd have been ingesting a bottle of gin per day and mainlining Valium, mind you.

I always think these kinds of books are promoting a life where the woman has no spark; nothing that makes her her IYSWIM?

Just from these posts, Hark, I wouldn't have thought you were a natural for that!

Hark -- he left me! You know she says you can't start FW then stop? Because your "normal" behaiour will seem 100x more shrewish after you've been lovely?

That happened.