That’s good to know. I hope that’s true, but given the lifestyle of many back then, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility.

For the readers, more information about whether or not this is a hoax can be found at http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp.

Thanks!

“master of his house”. No one likes the use of the word “master” but we all know that if we treat them as the King of their castle they will treat us as the Queens we are. Times have changed and if I have to not only financally help the household I want to be considered an “equal”. We all know that “behind every good man is a good woman” but together they know they are a “power house” couple. It’s all about team work. At the end of the day we may secretly think of ourself as “the boss”. We are just smart enough to know which situation we can be the “boss” over. I don’t try to be “the boss” over everything. I just want to know that what I do matters. Boy how times have changed. My grandmothers along with my mom worked outside the home. I don’t know any stay at home, gotta take care of my husband wives. Women I know who are married work to help pay the bills or to pay their individual debt. I can’t see me or my girl friends going to their husbands as they did their father and asking for “their weekly allowance”. For any stay at home moms I am not bashing you and on a different post got ripped a new one. It is just not my cup of tea. I would never want my sole job to be stroking my hubbys ego and him coming home just so we can talk about his day but in his eyes my day was not important enough for him to ask me about. Even though I spent all day washing his clothes, preparing his meal, lining his clothes out for tomorrow, packing his lunch. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. I can’t do it. Has anyone watched the show “18 and Counting”. Even married I am not going to have 18 kids. My womb my body. I was done having kids when I got married. Hubby has none. I with grace and thanks share my kids with my hubby. He is a great dad.(My kids do still have their dad in their life). My hubby even calls my sons unborn child his grandchild. My grandchild will call me “Granny Annie”, it was a toss up between that and Grandma ma. I know my first born when she has a child will probably have my grandchild call me “grandmother”. LOL. My first born calls me “Mother”. I am not Katherine Jackson. LOL. “NO More Wire Hangers”. I am still waiting on her “Mommy Dearest” book. It’s ok she is a good kid. My last born will be 20 on Wed. and she still calls me “Mommy” without the “Dearest”. My son calls me “Ma”,(We watched alot of “Little House On The Prarie and The Waltons, my son was 3 and after watching “The Waltons my baby said “Ma Homeboy Started A Fire” It was John Boy) he is still to lazy to finish a word. I am still “Ma”. Thanks for letting me type. I feel better. I love my kids but don’t think that when they get older they don’t need you any less, they need us more as I need them as well. Grown kids are still our kids and even grown kids still say “the darndest things”.

I still get a laugh about the Homeboy, John boy memory. That is “Ma’s, soon to be Granny Annie’s priceless moment.

I agree with @ MissJay: I would not survive either! I am too outspoken (and I’m sure my husband would say that he created this monster!!!!)

Unbelievable!!!!! I’m speechless!

I’m working on it, man. I’ve always been long winded, and that ain’t gonna change overnight. P

What do you mean, “a voice and a moderation of it?” explain that one to me.

@ missjay

Girl, the powers that be would have sent a lynch mob to kill me. LOL We’d be on some Harpo and Sophia type of stuff (between all the fights, more children came ROFL). No one has time for that kind of foolishness.

@ rj

I really think a “well-trained” woman with a Willie Lynch mentality wrote this. I honestly do. And I’m sure thousands of women played into it. That’s why divorces started picking up after the kids were out of the house and in college back in the late 70s and early 80s.

I work with a lady who got married 53 or 54 years ago. She’s spry, sweet, a brilliant manager, great conversationalist, talented, committed to her children and grandchildren…I mean, the woman is in her 70s and could run circles around the 18 -25 year olds we work with! But at home, where being married over half a century should be a blessing, it’s her worst nightmare. She lived all her young life subscribing to these kinds of idealogies, and although she’s unhappy in her marriage, she can’t find the strength, in all her beauty, to leave him.

I have a lot of respect for her, but I hate the fact that such a beautiful woman has subjected herself to that kind of inhumane treatment. Even her children have begged her to leave, and yet still she stays…and serves. I tell you, I don’t know what I would do if I were in her shoes.

Um… as a single guy, I would be cool with it. More so b/c I’m humanly selfish and there seems to be no real accountability here. Humans love not being accountable. It’s easy living.

But in reality, I prefer a woman with voice and a moderation of it… as I too will have voice and a moderation of it.

Great points HH.
” But not only do we have the right to question one another, but it is also our RESPONSIBILITY.” <– awesome

Wise man once said that there is no trust without answered questions…