Posted by sunny10 on May 10, 2005, at 14:26:05
In reply to Re: well you STARTED it » sunny10, posted by alesta on May 10, 2005, at 12:08:30
I think you nailed it with the 8-6 world comment...
I'm not sure why we are all so hard on ourselves and each other all of the time...
It's hard enough to deal with the fact that it is an 8-6 world...and our men still expect us to act like their mothers- who soothed them and placated them- who went along with them... and who were under a great deal less stress than we are today! We need to be soothed and placated as much as they do, now!
I'm not saying that none of them worked outside the home- a lot did... but they were not pushed to be "career-driven" as we are. They had jobs with very small amounts of responsibility. They were basically office wives, "restaurant wives", laundry wives, cleaning wives, et cetera (you know what I'm getting at)
I think the key is to finding the guy that enjoys a lot of the same things as you do (tv shows, music, et cetera), but with enough small differences to keep conversation interesting. And, frankly, we can compromise on what to watch on tv or which music to listen to if we know that we will command the remote/stereo when our SO's are out with their friends, and they will command them when we are out with our friends...
That's the way these things SHOULD work, anyway...
poster:sunny10
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