I just got this from a friend - apparently it's an extract from a 1960s book on how a good wife should behave in the bedroom! :shock:

OMG are you serious?? too funny!!!

1960? That doesn't seem like it was THAT long ago... I might have guessed waaaaaaaay earlier than that.

Holy cow wow times sure have changed. Very interesting and funny too!!

Yip - that's what we were taught! Now you know why the hippies rebelled and decided "free love" is better...LOL

I think somebody gave me that when I married! But my husband read some other book! Oh well, it didn't work for either of us!

I don't know Loretta, but I never read it and luckily, neither did Hans! :shock: :lol:

I knew several ladies who followed that book :shock:
Their husbands had never seen them without hair done, make up in place, except when they were in the hospital after having their babies :roll:

Very true Loretta LMBO not getting old...just the times they are a changin' :wink:

obey? Obey?? OBEY???? Good one! :twisted:

MadQuilter...do you have something against obeying??? :twisted: ***ducking quickly*** :shock:

I was smiling and shaking my head until I got to the part where she says, "...being mindful that a man's satisfaction is more important than a woman's." My jaw dropped and I thought, WHAT????? It just blows me away to read this stuff, even though it is from the 60's. What's also mystifying in this day and age is that Eddie couldn't get into a guild because he's a man.

OMG! I think that is a page from my Mom's 1962 Home Economics book. They had an entire chapter on "Being a Successful Wife".

I read this to my mother....she's 81. She laughed till she cried. Said she was SO glad she'd not read that book. And yes, her reaction to "OBEY" was the same!! ROLMAO! :mrgreen:

What?!! You guys don't follow this regime? Thanks for the laugh K, I blew my drink out of my nose. Better fix my face before hubby gets home. :roll: :roll:

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Wait till he goes to sleep to put on your face cream and rollers, and arise before him etc, etc. etc.

Be completely obedient, compliant right down to encouraging sound effects...
I got a sound effect for the writer: PFFFTTT!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Oh Chele...you just reminded me, :lol:
We may all be more willing to do everything his way...after a pina colada! :wink:

Not at all - as long as it is MY RULES that are being followed - hehe

If my husband let me quit my job and stay home, I wouldn't mind doing those things for him...haha...

Yeah right.........maybe in the 60's

Oh oh! Shouldn't have said that! Hans is reading this with me and I'm a stay at home wife!!! :shock: :lol:

Aren't the rules in France different than in the USA regarding this k3n??? That book sounds like it was published here.... :wink: :wink: :wink:

I don't know about the rest of the country, but in our house, they're certainly different! :lol:

Actually, some of the French men are incredibly male chauvinist, even the young ones! I was once with Hans and a French male colleague of his who had a classic car for sale, Hans expressed interest and I said 'you're NOT having it!'. The French guy nearly fell off his chair and said 'in France, women don't speak to their husbands like that!' Raising his hand to indicate the slap I would get if I were HIS wife! I looked him in the eye and said 'lucky I'm not French then, isn't it!'
His wife is beautiful but like a frightened mouse! b#&@d! :shock:

Oh gosh--it's actually real? My, oh, my. I'd better show it to my 19 year old daughter--maybe she can do better. :lol: :lol: :lol:

If my17 year old daughter even attempts to follow that, I would be the one to slap her!!! I've spent 17 years preaching to that child to be independent and not to take *&^%## off men. I'm crossing my fingers that it will work.

I actually have a book like that tucked away in a box. It's a riot to read. Friends of my Mom and Dad gave it to me as a wedding present. Said I should read it for pointers, then they laughed. lol
I did peruse thru it and laughed hysterically. Called the friends and they just laughed and laughed. They asked me if I was going to follow any of it. I said sure...he might get dinner and I might be dressed appropriately...meaning, not in sweatpants and a tshirt. lol

I read this over 24 hours ago and still cannot find the words to express my feelings about this.

It's funny and pathetic and apalling, all rolled into one.

Thanks for posting K, it's amazing how far we've come...and sad to think we've had to travel this way at all!

LOL Terri- so I take it the replacement outfit doesn't involve satin and lace! :mrgreen:

Esq - yeah, my feminist hackles were well and truly up as well! The stuff our foremothers had to put up with! And as you say, we're still travelling - all we can do is hope that with each generation it gets better. :D

Whips and chains.....lmao

You WILL eat that dinner! Lash! :lol:

Hey, girls: NOW THAT'S THE SPIRIT! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Then there's the story about the response my husband's Grandmother gave when asked why her nightgown had fur-feather-like stuff at the bottom. "It keeps my neck warm."

Bless her, but Grandma passed away in 1963. She must have read a different book. :lol:

"He who giveth better be able to receiveth." That's the word according to MQ. Pat slapped me once and that was in my Sturm und Drang time - and honestly, I had BEGGED for it (sort of). However, we dealt with that little slide and if he (or anyone else) were to ever lay a hand on me, they better make it a good one. If I can get up again - they won't!

Mad, this may be too much info but I don't mind the odd slap now and then - as long as I've begged for it! :lol:

MCH - you're granny sounds like my kind of lady! :mrgreen: :lol:

Ain't that the truth.

Sadly, I understand. :twisted:

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All us ladies know who really does the obeying after 45 years, don't we?and they love it.......

Yea well....... I would have taken my face cream handed it to hubby and said "here take care of yourself"


NO ONE BOSSES ME AROUND and that is why I am divorced.

They have got to be joking. No way!!

OMG k, missed this until now, just read it out to John, You should have seen his expression, his exact words were...'In my #@%&+# dreams :shock: :shock: :shock:

So funny, but sad to think that some poor women probably lived like that