Author Topic: 1939 Marital Rating Scale  (Read 4674 times)

Offline SlickEric

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1939 Marital Rating Scale
« on: May 13, 2008, 10:29:07 PM »
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/05/marriage.html

''A psychologist's attempt to improve marriages provides an interesting glimpse into the social norms of the 1930s—and into one of the first scientific matchmaking services.''



Adding some more

DEMERITS

Do you...

Flick your ashes on the floor?
Leave whiskers in the bathroom sink?
Leave the seat up? (5)
Read the paper at the breakfast table?
Sit around the living room in an undershirt?
Warm your feet in the kitchen stove?
Belch out loud? (5)
Chew matchsticks?
Clean your ears with keys?
Shirk household tasks because that's "women's work"? (5)


MERITS

Do you...

Remember birthdays and anniversaries without being prompted?
Do household chores without being asked? (5)
Pour the milk into a glass instead of drinking it out of the bottle?
Ask how your wife's day went -- and sincerely want to know the answer?
Know how to change a baby? (5)
Put a napkin in your lap at the table instead of stuffing it down your collar?
Remember to take the cigar out of your mouth before kissing your wife? (5)
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Offline Marz

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Re: 1939 Marital Rating Scale
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2008, 10:06:53 AM »
Everything was great until Gladas came down stairs with crooked seams in her stockings.....

No wonder domestic abuse was so high back then, I mean can you imagine your wife going out with crooked seams in her stockings or warming her cold feet on you.... the nerve!
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Re: 1939 Marital Rating Scale
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2008, 08:28:09 AM »
Funny

As a psychologist myself.....I can't believe the misogyny and terribly unfair treatment of women back then.    :o  >:(



......but as a man......  why couldn't I have been born back then  :@`   O0




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Re: 1939 Marital Rating Scale
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2008, 08:35:32 AM »
No comment, folks.....lol
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