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Do you mother your husband? |
| Published: May 1, 2008, 1:02 pm |
| Tags: babying husband, babyinghusband, couples, husbands, marriage, mommy husband, mommyhusband, mothering husband, motheringhusband, nurture, nurturing, parents, pepper schwartz, pepperschwartz, tina tessina, tinatessina, wives |
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Filed under: Moms, Dads, Parental relationshipsMy father was an intelligent and physically capable man who could fix just about anything. If he couldn't fix something, he would just build a new one. In other words, he was good with his hands. But every night at dinner, my father would sit back with his hands in his lap and let my mother cut his meat for him.Even as a child, I found this confusing and strange. When I asked my mother about it, she said she did it because he liked her to do it. That didn't really clear things up for me. But in reading this article, I realize that my mother's mothering of her husband wasn't all that unique. Pepper Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, says women who take care of their husbands as if they were children - cutting their meat, picking out their clothes, washing their backs - are bending to societal pressures to be the ultimate woman. "We've been taught that the way to show love is to do for [ Full article ] |
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