Monday, July 02, 2007

Key to a good marriage?

Key to a good marriage?

Um...yeah OK.

I will grant them the 'share the housework' stuff (especially since my last husband was apparently allergic to cleaning products of any type, of mowing lawns, shoveling snow (yeah he once let two chicks shovel the entire drive - meanwhile we weighed less combined than him altogether), of clean cat litter)- of course the fact that Erin does ANY cleaning gets him sex just about anytime he wants it (sorry did *I* just type that)...but I digress....

I am disturbed though, by the following:

"The survey's findings buttress concerns expressed by numerous scholars and family-policy experts, among them Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of Rutgers University's National Marriage Project.

"The popular culture is increasingly oriented to fulfilling the X-rated fantasies and desires of adults," she wrote in a recent report. "Child-rearing values — sacrifice, stability, dependability, maturity — seem stale and musty by comparison."
"

'stale and musty'????

I would have given my LEFT arm (worth more cause I am left handed), to have a self-sacrificing, stable, dependable, mature spouse and trust me when I tell you I'd have been his every X-rated fantasy had he been able and willing (the key word being willing - I KNOW he was perfectly capable of being all those things and more had he truly wanted to)....

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Blogger Erin Garlock said...

Sure it's "stale and musty" according to the "popular culture".

I'm not seeing any "Leave it to Beaver" movies being made. Perhaps a "Donna Reed" TV series would help.

Unfortunately, all the advertising and entertainment is geared towards instant self-gratification and nearly nothing about family-life.

6:42 AM  

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