From time to time I'll read old newspapers from the 1800s. Nothing highlights how blue pilled we've become than reading old papers. From politics to relationships, everything seems to be clearer and simpler the further back in time I go.

I'd like a share a small article, titled The Wife, that appeared on the front page of the Livingston Republican newspaper on February 21, 1856. Screenshot of original article here.

The Wife - It is not unfrequently that the wife mourns over the alienated affection of her husband when she has made no effort to strengthen and increase his attachment. She thinks because he once loved her, he ought always to love her, and she neglects those attentions which first engaged his heart. Many a wife is thus the cause of her own neglect and sorrow. That woman deserves not a husband's generous love who will not greet him with smiles as he returns from the labors of the day; who will not try to chain him to his home by the sweet enchantment of a cheerful heart. There is not one in a thousand so unfeeling as to withstand such influence and break away from such a home.

These lines stuck out as rather poignant

the wife mourns over the alienated affection of her husband when she has made no effort to strengthen and increase his attachment.

She thinks because he once loved her, he ought always to love her, and she neglects those attentions which first engaged his heart.

This line struck a cord with me. My wife has always been cheerful, sweet, and playful towards me, and I am thankful that I have never known such a loveless marriage.

That woman deserves not a husband's generous love who...will not try to chain him to his home by the sweet enchantment of a cheerful heart.