You said, "If she had the opportunity to make her ONLY money."
I can't imagine what that means; that any money she earned would be for her alone and not shared with the family?
At any rate, it is a "popular" notion that women are only worth what they earn, but it used to be that a woman's life was dependent on the man she married, which meant women needed to marry as well as they could.
Few choices? There were TWO! Get married and have the man earn the money or stay single and earn your own money. Now, there are NO choices! (Married AND working is the WORST of both worlds.)
In those days of supporting women, men were happier, and more content, and had more free time, children were happier, more successful, and were less anxious, and women were happier, more content, and more fulfilled (when they didn't have to get up early, and rush to be part of the rush hour, and then spend the majority of their day in a boring job, doing what they are told).
"Earning money" is highly overrated. It is much nicer to sleep in, and spend your time as you wish. I feel very sorry for the "modern woman" who is run ragged, and aren't even allowed to rear their own children, and then have to either take care of their home in their spare time, or live in a mess, or nag their husbands (I've seen the kind of work done by "professional housekeepers" and it is pathetic).
Vinnie had it made and she knew it! She had Clare wrapped around her finger (and he loved it).
The obnoxious "women's movement" made slaves of all women; again, we now have NO CHOICES! Women are told to "get a job" and that is it.
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!!!deleted!!! (33407653)
10 years ago
"obnoxious women's movement"? Do you mean the one that gave women the right to vote, the one that allowed talented and independent women the right to pursue careers in science and medicine?
And why shouldn't the men do more of the housework and child-rearing (I am a man, by the way)?
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ms-trixi
8 years ago
My husband works and supports us while I take care of our two boys. We both love our arrangement. I love picking my kids up from school and making dinner every night. I feel so lucky to be able to be a stay at home mother and a good wife. I know society looks down on me, but I don't care. My kids are growing up so quickly and I enjoy all of the time I have with them. I worked as a flight attendant and had my own apartment before I married, and I enjoyed it at the time. I worked a few years as a flight attendant and finished my college degree in the first few years of marriage. But I am quite happy and content with my life now. We are really a lot like a 1950's family. It does help, and only works, because I am married to my best friend. We love and respect each other and both have wicked sense of humors (gotta laugh during the hard times- like when our oldest was diagnosed with autism). We will celebrate our 25th anniversary this Wednesday. I do wish that more women that want to be stay at home wives/mothers could do so. The economy plays a part in things, but I also don't think as many men today would be willing to support a family on their own. It's really gone out of style to be a housewife or stay at home mom. But it really was, and is, a wonderful blessing to be able to do so.
"Getting old is not for sissies."
Bette Davis
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liscarkat (17811)
a year ago
ms-trixi, I wish more people shared your attitude. You remind me of the way things were when my brother and I were growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, and there isn't anything at all wrong with that.
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