Age-old advice: Husband feels hemmed in
We mine the Free Press archives for advice that still applies today (...or doesn’t)
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 22/11/2018 (2528 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
From Helen Help Us by Helen Bottel, published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Jan. 7, 1960
Dear Helen: I cannot go anywhere by myself because my wife thinks I’m meeting some other girl, but I haven’t anyone in mind right now.
She accuses me of all kinds of things, and we just don’t get along. I like a little freedom once in a while, but she wants to go everywhere with me, even to the corner drug store. So I think I might take a train and leave town. Right? — Hemmed In
Dear Hemmed: Wrong! It would be far simpler to take her to the drug store — and while you’re there, buy her a box of candy.
This may not apply to you because you “haven’t anyone in mind,” but a wife doesn’t usually smell a rat unless he acts like one.
Dear Helen: I had an argument with my friend the other day. She thinks a husband is always right. She says the wife has NOTHING to say. I don’t agree.
I believe it is a 50-50 proposition. In our home, we talk things over before we decide on what to do, what to buy or how to manage the children. But my friend tells me in her home, her husband alone does all the deciding and she agrees to everything he says and does.
What do you think, Helen? — Wondering
Dear Wondering: Maybe she has the art of husband management down to an exact science, and she isn’t about to give away classified material.