Reasons Women Leave

[Bible_Belt]

Regarding the men who wouldn't let their woman work a long time ago, keep in mind that there was no enforcement of sexual harassment laws. Would you want your wife getting her ass grabbed by co-workers? Maybe the boss says blow me or you're fired. That's the way the world was at the time, and in that light I don't think a man who didn't want his wife to work was a bad person for having that opinion.

 

[zekko]

Saw this today, here's the other side of the coin: Why men break up. Again, some revealing changes over time:

 

[Westminster]

Regarding the men who wouldn't let their woman work a long time ago, keep in mind that there was no enforcement of sexual harassment laws. Would you want your wife getting her ass grabbed by co-workers? Maybe the boss says blow me or you're fired. That's the way the world was at the time, and in that light I don't think a man who didn't want his wife to work was a bad person for having that opinion.

Until the 1970s, a married woman woman going out to work was often frowned upon, at least in the UK. What you describe above may have been a factor but, from my memory, the stigma mainly related to the man being seen as unable to keep a wife and family by his own means. That and the notion of 'latch-key kids' - in other words, children being neglected and misbehaving because the mother is at work.

 

[zekko]

Until the 1970s, a married woman woman going out to work was often frowned upon, at least in the UK. What you describe above may have been a factor but, from my memory, the stigma mainly related to the man being seen as unable to keep a wife and family by his own means.

It was a very similar timeline here in the US. Like you, I'm old enough to remember those days. A woman in the 60s grew up expecting to get married at a young age - by her early 20s. Women could work, but they were mostly single. The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which premiered in 1970, was considered groundbreaking because it featured a single woman in a career (television news producer). I think that was around the time things started changing. A show following a woman's career now wouldn't raise an eyebrow. Before that, Mary Tyler Moore played a housewife on The **** Van Dyke Show, and her husband gave her an allowance.

How much has the cost of living dictated women (including wives) entering the work force? Or has women entering the workforce helped cause the cost of living to rise? As businesses grew to compete for that extra money? It's like the chicken or the egg. But you're right about the effect - parents aren't raising their kids so closely, and it's to everyone's detriment.

 

[jhonny9546]

I will never do marriage ever again.

But you actually said you loved the time you spent in LTR's since that gave You more meaning than being single?

 

[jhonny9546]

They see the relationship as a business, that needs looked after and should grow successfully.

I know a couple who lives this way, and their parents too.

Modern women won't like it anyway: they'll want a "friend" to satisfy their sexual needs.

There is research suggesting that couples that work together (i.e. a family business) are less likely to divorces. This makes sense, as such couples have a common goal and high degree of interdependence. Similarly, couples that are raising children are less likely to get divorced. Again, they have a common purpose. Once the children grow up and the parents become empty nesters, the odds of divorce go up.

This is the case for many Italians, so many inherithed their businesses, but someone says that seying each other at work and at home too would make your relationship fail.

To me that just sound simple: if you and your wife work togheter in a family businesses, you have less exposurefor cheathing when your partner isn't there.

Also, the success is tied to the fact that everything the couples relies on, like financial, social stability it's in one unique place, and if you leave, you're actually in the street..


It's interesting to discuss more about this topic