TY for posting.

It just ruins part of the day to remember all of that crap on TV and everywhere. Was there ever something written for men on how to let their wives have better lives? As far as I know there was not but then they were the perfect sex and never needed help with anything having to do with their behavior. Lord knows, no man alive was ever expected to even treat women nicely. Their castle you know.

Shit, where can I find me a woman do all that?

the Wrap yourself in Satan Wrap too to greet your husband at the door! Our the kids somewhere, I guess.

…typo, or if you did it on purpose, but

Be a little gay and more interesting.
oh well, if hubby is into that.

I had a friend whose first name was Gay. At that time the word simply meant happy and light-hearted.

By the time we were in high school, she was using her middle name to avoid the jokes and said that she would change it legally as soon as she could.

a woman went to them because her husband wouldn't bang her. They diagnosed him as queer and she responded "Yes this is very queer" and they had to educate her on homosexuality.

I'd have to say I've had night's like this article recommends. One, I think.
I don't think anybody actually lived like this, TV just pretended they did.

Washing face and hands and changing our clothes (if they were dirty from playing).
Dinner was ready when my dad got home.
Early 60's

can confirm that the attitude was real, regardless of the source of the rules.

Here is a song that I remember from the early 1960s:

https://genius.com/Jack-jones-wives-and-lovers-lyrics

in that list. They maybe didn't sound as smarmy as this example, but that was the attitude, esp in churchgoing families (which was just about everyone). Dad just mowed the lawn and washed the car on Saturday. Big whoopee.

Take up with some beatnik with a mustache and sunglasses, and start hanging out in the park with their kooky friends listening to that rock music.

Really, it sounds more like one of those sixties family comedies than any reality we know today. I cannot believe women had to live like this but I know they did, because it didn't start changing until I was a teen.

and both sides, for their own reasons, hated the roles though they didn't know it.

..thank gawd!

got little helper pills from her doctor. I heard that but not sure it’s true. But it has been said on many tv shows.

…one of his parents told my mother that she should be sure to keep a supply of rubbing alcohol on hand so she could massage my dad’s feet and legs when he got home from work! 1948.

As far as I know, she did not take that advice.

As a salesman, he could get home very late at night. We ate hours earlier because my two diabetic sisters had to be on a regular schedule. During the week, we may not see much of him.

But Sundays were great! Always church first, and then my Dad would get 4 kids (the little brother hadn't arrived yet) on their bicycles, and off we'd go, while Mom cooked the big Sunday lunch. Before I was big enough to ride a bike, he would strap a pillow to the cross bar of the boy's Schwinn, and that's where I'd ride sidesaddle. 1960's......