Awful '50s Marriage Advice Shows What Our Mothers And Grandmothers Were Up Against
The Huffington Post | By Sara Boboltz | Posted: 09/26/2014 2:30 am EDT

A long-running Ladies' Home Journal column that started in 1953, called "Can This Marriage Be Saved?," features real-life couples and the juicy details of their marital issues. Very often, counselors found a way to pin problems on the wives, calling them "childish," "juvenile," "emotionally immature" and "frigid," for example. Early "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" columns, which continue today at Divine Caroline without the sexist overtones, show us how far women's equality has come -- but also how far we have to go.

Here are five pieces of advice from the magazine.

Lesson 1: Wives "attitudes" and "personalities" are to blame for marital problems.

Lesson 2: The longer you've been married, the more you should let domestic violence slide.

Lesson 3: Wives should be able to read minds.

Lesson 4: If you don't give your spouse enough attention, he has a fair excuse to cheat on you.

Lesson 5: Never out-earn your husband.

Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/can-this-marriage-be-saved-advice_n_5829870.html
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This kind of thinking is still around and is what some young girls are taught at home and in the church. Any deviation is seen as rebellion and a sure way to cause strife in the household. I remember some of my friends telling me their mothers advised them to not 'show off' (act too smart) around their boyfriends -- that it would scare them off because men didn't like women who were smarter than they were.

Why can't women be free to be who they are and not some man's fantasy on what a 'good woman' is or isn't?

Such demands aren't put on men.

I wonder what would happen, if women flipped the script?

Too long!!

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