Nouran is right, Z ! I really cannot imagine you waiting at home all days taking care of those points in the 'perfect wife' manifesto.....
Actually nowdays probably even your wife would have no respect for you.

PS My wife must have read the opposite political wife-party manifesto ... she is following the opposite of those points.

I'm not so brave to really go and try it!
But I think that, theoretically, moreless half of that manifesto would actually help having a good marriage with both partners happy!

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soooo basically this article is all about HIM and what he needs and HER as something is taken for granted and she needs to work really hard to stay in that place it's a nonsense, she also can be having a difficult and taugh days and he as a husband and as emotional partner should work to make her day better it's not all about him it is a partnership and both need to share good and taugh times.

you go girl
it's always the woman's fault, any one who thinks that this list can actualy help needs a maid not a wife (actualy was gonna say a nanny), just someone to pay money to in exchange of cooking, cleaning, and showing good attitude no matter what
that's not only sexist, it's just wrong
and by the way sexism doesn't just harm women, it also harms men. I believe that what's asked of women should be asked of men and what's asked of men should be asked of women, it's called equal rights.

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"you can't please all people, but you can please yourself" the great philosopher NOURAN

I have to say that I think the article is spot on. The only adjustment I'd make would be to remove the assumption that the "wife" has to be the woman in a relationship. Jennifer and I have been married for 33 years and we've gone through some interesting (well, interesting to us!) permutations. There is a 7 year difference in our ages (yes, I'm the younger one ). At first, I was the one with the job with long hours and Jennifer handled the house (I got the garage and yard as my domains). And then, about 5 years ago my hours got shorter and Jennifer's got longer. So the housework became my responsibility (however, I still have the garage and yard work!). So now it's me that makes sure the house is clean and the kids, er dogs, are clean and the fire is lit (it's a gas stove so that's pretty easy).

You know what - those rules work really well.

Thanks Steve, finally someone who thinks the same as me! Just a little changes and that article is a good guide to a good marriage!

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good point steve, but that doesn't mean that either of you are told that your topics are less important than the other's like in that list.
I like what you are saying, after all every person and couple is different so you can't have a list that fits all.

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"you can't please all people, but you can please yourself" the great philosopher NOURAN

I agree - there does seem to be a tone to the article that one person in a marriage is more important - più significativo? - than the other... and she is!

So far, Jennifer and I have come to a good arrangement. It requires mutual respect for each others strengths and weaknesses. We tend to compliment each other and balance life as a result. It's quite a good thing when it works out that way.

No if we could only get nations to do the same...

wow, great post, I think that's why it was so hard to find something to write as a response

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"you can't please all people, but you can please yourself" the great philosopher NOURAN

The following is to be read in the voice of an American farmer from the midwest:

"Aw, shucks! Twernt nuthin..."

"Twernt" is an American colloquialism combining the words "It were not" into a single word. And, of course, "nuthin" is the phonetic equivalent of how an American farmer pronounces "nothing". Not very good grammar but Americans have been working on the destruction of proper English since we began!