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The GOOD WIFES GUIDE 1955
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Posted over 4 years ago http://nursinglink.monster.com/albums/70457-more-great-scenes/photos/115870-image0011 Please click this link and read the article it is and actual article from May 1955 Good Housekeeping Magazine with instructions on "How to be a "good wife" it is a hoot now. But back then women took it seriously. Nurses were treated the same way. The doctors expected us to get up and give them our seats and to have their coffee ready and bow down to them etc. It give some insight as to how far we have come. Men should read it to. But don't get any ideas. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago Well, it's a good thing I don't live in the '50's! I would be divorced in a heartbeat. There's NO WAY I would live like that. My husband read it and said it's a good thing I'm not like those women, he married a woman, not a mouse. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago Thank God the liberating 60's came around and the women burned their bras! LOL!!! "a day without freckles is like a night without stars" |
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| Posted over 4 years ago My mother-in-law was in nursing late WWII and had to stand anytime a doctor entered the room....can't see myself doing that. I wouldn't have been concerned with the "yellow, waxy build up" on my kitchen floor either. Remember June Cleaver running the vacuum in heels? Who aspired to that? A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |
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| Posted over 4 years ago Unfortunately, I don't think some of the Docs here have moved out of the 50's. Alot of the docs in Texas are of foreign descent and expect nurses to wait on them hand and foot! I'm appalled! Nurses here put up with it too!. I keep telling them they need to stand up and demand respect, but they don't get it. Or, I guess they are afraid to try. I want to voice my frustration, but I work agency. I'm afraid I'll be called a trouble maker and made a DNR. When I first got here I was much more vocal, but I've had my butt kicked in a few jobs, so now I'm more judicial as to what I say. They used to say I was "fiesty" in one of my management jobs. I used to tell anyone treating me badly that they needed me more than I needed them. See my post on paranoia to gauge where that got me. I so miss Louisiana. I really dislike it here in Texas. Claire Kruszka |
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| Posted over 4 years ago Yikes, i woulda failed at being the good wife..LOL.... |
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| Posted over 4 years ago I am gonna either puke or break something. We only have one heart, take care of it! Angie |
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| Posted over 4 years ago This is cute.... I tend to cater to some of those ideals. I guess I am old fashioned. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago My belief is that a happy husband makes a happy wife. My hubby treats me like gold, so I will do anything he wants me to. A good man loves other. A better man loves God. A great man loves God and lives well among others! I miss you daddy!
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| Posted over 4 years ago Doing something for your spouse, whether or not you were asked, and doing it because you want to is different from doing things because the norms of that period dictated it should be done. I've read and heard of wives who endured many things because of the times they were living in and more than a few did not miss their husbands when they passed on. Divorce and/or separation was not considered to be an option for many reasons. Too bad there's not a happy medium to be reached by both people in a marriage....sometimes it happens but not often enough. A Proud Redneck Lovin' the Country Life |
