In May of 1955, Housekeeping Monthly published an article entitled, “The Good Wife’s Guide,” detailing all the ways that a wife should act and how best she can be a partner to her husband and a mother to her children.
Link: https://www.littlethings.com/1950s-good-housewife-guide
I'm 25 years old and I've been married for 2.5 years. The blue-pilled, ultra-feminist version of me would roll in her grave if she saw me now, but I do basically all of these for my husband? (except 7 and 8 because we don't have kids, don't plan on having kids either lol).
I have dinner ready for my husband before he gets home, unless it's specifically something he requested to cook together as a fun activity. Or unless we wanted to go out for dinner. We made deep dish pizza last week as a fun activity to do together, but most of the time I plan to have dinner ready when he walks through the door. If we are going out, I plan on being ready when he gets home so he doesn't have to wait around for me to change, do my makeup, or find my handbag.
Before my husband gets home from work, I clean up the dishes from cooking dinner + fix my appearance really quick. A spray of perfume, a little powder on my shiny nose, etc. Even if I changed clothes after work into something more comfortable, I don't change into oversized sweats or clothes with stains and holes in them. A nice fitted pair of yoga pants and a soft blouse or sweater are comfortable for an evening together while still looking pretty and feminine.
When he gets home from work, my husband loves to take a moment to decompress. He walks through the door and greets me with a kiss before he goes upstairs to change from his work jeans into an attractive pair of jogger sweats to be more comfortable. Meanwhile, I plate up his dinner and ask what he would like to drink. I bring him his food and we eat together. I ask if he wants another helping of dinner. He offers to wash the dinner plates and silverware, which is very nice of him (the dishes I used to cook are usually already washed and in the dishwasher before he gets home, so no need to worry about those). I say "oh, I can do those baby don't worry about it" but he shoos me out of the kitchen so he can wash the dinner dishes.
We unwind together with a little tv (family feud or jeopardy are fun) or play a game (video games or board games). I ask him about his day and he tells me stories about what happened at work, if anything exciting happened. I like this time of day when we relax together and talk about our days. I rarely have a need to complain to him, but I never do right when he gets home. This is his time to relax and unwind from work. I feel like I never complain or nag him, I never feel the need to! (compared to some of my other friends, who I feel constantly nag and complain to their husbands...those poor men...)
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