Comments on: How I Made My Marriage Happy (Aug, 1930) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/08/how-i-made-my-marriage-happy/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Cara http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/08/how-i-made-my-marriage-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1076254 Cara Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:40:56 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9117#comment-1076254 When you get past the Zeitgeist-stuff of the time it was written in, it's actually rather sensible advice: Know what you get and think before you commit to something that is supposed to last your whole life. And talk a lot with your partner, now *that* is very modern advice. When you get past the Zeitgeist-stuff of the time it was written in, it’s actually rather sensible advice: Know what you get and think before you commit to something that is supposed to last your whole life. And talk a lot with your partner, now *that* is very modern advice.

]]> By: Hip2B2 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/08/how-i-made-my-marriage-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1076241 Hip2B2 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:42:39 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9117#comment-1076241 I has been my experience, in over a quarter of a century of a happy marriage, that marriage is like a team; and every team has a captain. In my family's' case it is my wife. I don't have a problem with that. hip I has been my experience, in over a quarter of a century of a happy marriage, that marriage is like a team; and every team has a captain. In my family’s’ case it is my wife.

I don’t have a problem with that.

hip

]]> By: Scott B. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/08/how-i-made-my-marriage-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1076230 Scott B. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:44:38 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9117#comment-1076230 Like I've always said, the secret to a successful marriage is resignation to diminished expectations. Like I’ve always said, the secret to a successful marriage is resignation to diminished expectations.

]]> By: Myles http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/08/how-i-made-my-marriage-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1076217 Myles Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:38:21 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9117#comment-1076217 Charlene - you have a valid point, but did you read the story that is the main part of the article? Charlene – you have a valid point, but did you read the story that is the main part of the article?

]]> By: Charlene http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/08/how-i-made-my-marriage-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1076214 Charlene Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:14:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9117#comment-1076214 Ladies, if you aren't a silent, submissive doormat you're not fit to be wife to a SUPERIOR male! Remember, his problems are real and serious business but yours are silly, ridiculous, and all in your head (and probably all your fault anyway for not accepting your innate inferiority as a woman), so you'd better keep quiet and make it all about him, all the time! Yeah. Nice. Ladies, if you aren’t a silent, submissive doormat you’re not fit to be wife to a SUPERIOR male! Remember, his problems are real and serious business but yours are silly, ridiculous, and all in your head (and probably all your fault anyway for not accepting your innate inferiority as a woman), so you’d better keep quiet and make it all about him, all the time!

Yeah. Nice.

]]> By: Myles http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2010/03/08/how-i-made-my-marriage-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-1076206 Myles Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:35:27 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=9117#comment-1076206 Actually a nice story once you get past the first couple paragraphs. Actually a nice story once you get past the first couple paragraphs.

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