Age-old advice: Spoiled husband
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 31/12/2016 (3545 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dorothy Dix Letter Box published Dec. 31, 1932
Dear Dorothy Dix — My husband gets mad at me and stays mad three or four weeks at a time, each time threatening to leave me. When he is mad he takes his meals downtown.
We have been married twelve years and this happens every few months. Can you help me?
-Mrs. A. R.
Answer: Sure I can help you. Quit worrying over your husband’s mad spells and regard his tantrums as a sort of holiday. When he is eating downtown, jet up on your cooking and take this easily.
He is acting like a spoiled child and the more you notice him and the more he thinks he can worry you, the more he will do it. If you had enough sense of humour to laugh at him, you could break him of these silly outbursts.
Haven’t you got some friend or relatively that you could go off and visit when he gets mad? Tell him that as he isn’t going to eat at home, it is the psychological moment to visit Aunt Sally or Cousin Sue, and that when he gets ready to come home to send you a wire and you will return. That will hold him for a while.
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