The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands

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The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands
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Wed, 07-11-2007 - 6:29pm

I recently read "The Proper Care & Feeding of Relationships" by Dr. Laura Schlessinger and was surprised to find I agreed with much of what she said in the book...so I returned to the library to borrow "The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands" and again...I find I agree with most of what she writes. I would have scoffed at the titles alone 12 years ago when I was married, working up the corporate ladder with my 2 year old in dc full time from 11 months on. I thought I had it all.

I ended up divorced and now the 2 year old is 14 and I realized recently how fast she is growing up and that I really missed a lot of time with her and my husband by choice(working).

I am remarried and 3 yrs ago our son was born. I returned to work when he was 10 months and found what I think is the best dayhome I could have...they were amazing and very loving. Our family is very close with them now....I was working(primary breadwinner) and couldn't shake the feeling that I was putting my career ahead of my family when my family is monumentally more important to me than the money I was bringing in. We COULD change our situation to enable me to be at home...so we did and I now wonder why any mother who is emotionally healthy and does not *have* to work for the family to get by....doesn't stay at home? I am not meaning that disrespectfully or sarcastically as I myself did not make that choice with myt first. I resigned 9 months ago. I am proud to be at home even though I wasn't with my first(which I now regret but didn't think I would!). I am proud to send my husband off to work with hot coffee and a lunch I made that always includes homebaked treats....welcome him home to a clean home and wonderful meal...spend my days teaching my son and playing with him; treasuring it sincerely...and being here for my 14 year old daughter whether she needs me to yell at; or hug and talk...or just to stop her from sitting on the computer all day or getting into mischief.

To give you the tone of the books I will give you a couple of excerpts;

"The issue of "roles" in a marriage and family is often a sensitive one. Stay-at-home moms as well as hardworking primary-breadwinner men are not given much respect from our society-at-large. Feminist educators and activists keep trying to squeeze men and women into niches that may simply not be a good match for their innate qualites...as well as their masculine and feminine drives. It is more in the female nature to nest and nurture. It is more in the male nature to conquer and protect. Frankly, the more we ignore the true, inherent masculine and feminine qualites of people, the farther apart we pull them."

"...feminism has brainwashed women to believe that all men are inconsiderate beasts you can't rely on. Therefore, the threat goes, never give up your independence. This mentality has confsed and frightened women into an avoidance of becoming dependant on their men. To protect themselves, women ferociously parry with their men, while denigrating their own desires to tend the home and raise children. Then they call me all angry and depressed... nd they think it is because of their husbands."

So...what do you think?

*edit to correct a typo




Edited 7/11/2007 7:57 pm ET by hi_kimmie

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 10:59am

So?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 10:59am

"No he chhose to apply for benefits under false pretenses. That is not choosing to be disabled. It is choosing to try to cheat a system. In this case, he was successful, but if he is truly only receiving benefits because he is cheating, then he is not disabled."
he was injured, enought to warrant to disability? I can;t make that call.

"So you yourself are agreeing that he is *not* a bona fide disabled individual?"
from what I see? I don't know. I see other individuals worse off than he is who are working.

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:01am

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I think you are missing the first step in this process.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:01am

Unless he purposely caused the accident in which he was hurt, knowing that

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:02am

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Incorrect. There are plenty of people who are disabled who never start the process of being labeled disabled or of collecting disability benefits. They are still disabled. In fact, i work with a woman with severe arthritis. She uses a walker. She is disabled. However, she didn't start any process. She does not collect disability benefits.

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:02am

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Exactly.

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:02am

"Incorrect. If the injury occurred on a jobsite, they are required by law to report the injury."
correct who said they didn't do that? because a job reports an injury does not automatically mean that the individual will seek disability.

"The process begins either with an injury or a medical condition.{
never said it didn't
"Since you have stated that you don't know if the injury was self-inflicted, it would be a false claim to state that he choose to be injured."
I didn't say he chose to be injured, I said he chose to be disabled. which is he is.

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:03am

<<I don't know how the injury occurred. >>


Exactly, therefore you can't claim that he choose to become disabled.


PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:03am
Sigh. Because if it wa self-inflicted then he would, indeed, have CHOSEN to be disabled. If it was not self-inflicted, then he didn't choose it.
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Wed, 07-18-2007 - 11:03am

I didn't state that.

PumpkinAngel

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