Marriage tips from 1913
Marriage tips from 1913
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I kind of expected these to have aged worse. Some are solid - if a little obvious in modern times - advice.
And then there are the others... At least some of them are humorous; show them to your partner guys i'm sure she will appreciate them. Even if she is just a wife 🫠
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They're a lot better than a similar list would be in the 50s.
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Yeah, it’s not that these are bad. It’s that many people of the time needed to be told these in the first place.
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Many people today need to be told these...
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I wanted to show my wife, but she didn't meet me on the threshold! I had to search the house for her!!! The horror...
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My wife is the one unhappily devoid of colour sense, so I'm sure she'd get a chuckle out of it. Meanwhile she's the one with two doctorates sharing her work problems with me because hey, I may be just a husband, but I can listen good a'd understand stuff!
Nah but it's a nice list, honestly. Their heart was in the right place and that's what matters.
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"Even a wife is an individual". Wait what.
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Very progressive for 2025, unfortunately we're heading backwards where we need this said again...
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Well.....I mean she is......
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My work colleagues are fucking morons.
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For real. My wife is more intelligent than my entire department combined
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so like, i used to belong to a cult. they had this "what should you be looking for in a spouse" lesson and I mentioned I was looking for someone intelligent, as someone who couldn't keep up with me would be boring. i practically started a riot. like, sign a million that cult was not for me.
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nice name
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Well by that logic, so is your wife.
Why would you insult her like that?
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The devoid of color is ageless
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That is me. I have a poor sense of color and have needed to be restrained in the past.
Jokes on my wife though because her sense of pitch is shaky, while I sure can sing.
Then again, she's an artist and I'm a musician. She has taught me how to avoid the really bad combinations and some theory of color while I have taught her to stay on pitch when there's a background voice doing something else.
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DON'T say your wife wastes time in reading, even if she only reads fiction.
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I guess in 1913 that was "you spend too much time watching trash TV"
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Yes.
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The cliche (and, I mean, the observable bias) is that non-fiction makes up a great deal larger portion of men's reading than women's.
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That has been me in the past. Not to my wife, but as a younger person, I only read history books and stuff (still do) and felt superior because I did that (I don't do that anymore of course), so I would sneer at my friends' fiction and stuff because it was "worthless" compared to "real history" where you "actually learned stuff".
It's a dumb mindset, and I definitely don't feel like that anymore. I still don't read fiction or enjoy it, but it's just a hobby like any other, or like my thing with history.
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My idiot brother is going through a divorce right now. I reeeealy want to send this to him
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I want to hear more details.
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Clearly he wore green and purple.
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He cheats, his wife is mean all the time, in front the of the kids. They married when nether was mature enough for it. Both families warned them not to but they kept playing the most dysfunctional game of house ever. It’s like watching a white trash, and possibly autistic, reality show.
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These are all don'ts. Where are some of the do's?
I'm actually surprised some of the don'ts for the husbands are good advice.
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I remember reading that these were written by a woman, so there was less misogyny.
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Some of them are don't do this followed by what to do.
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Surprisingly not the blatant misogyny I expected given the title
Though the typography has me feeling this is a potentially bit more modern than 1913, however I'm not quite sure when this sort of sans-serif tabloidy style became prevalent, so I could be completely off the mark.
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It's apparently legit and from a British author named Blanche Ebbutt.
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don't know about the tabloidy style but grotesque types started in the 19th century. makes sense that it would be popular enough in the early 20th century, leading into art deco, which is mostly associated with sans serif types.
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The typography in the picture is not from 1913. It is modern. The text may be transcribed from a 1913 text, but it would not have looked like that in the slightest.
Edit: Someone posted the link, it is from a 2007 edition of The Daily Mail.
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You are correct. The typograhpy in the picture is completely modern. It may be a transscription from a 1913 text, but the picture doesn't show a 1913 text, and there is no source given, so you are right to be suspicious.
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This is too damn woke for MAGA
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Here's something more their speed:
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Pfah! I sneer at your bridge-playing!
Margaret handed you your ass every week for the last month! You can't take tricks for shit.
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This is... pretty solid honestly. Is there more of a list? With the Do's?
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Manliness is not purely a physical quality
Surprisingly accepting of trans men for that era
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So like what the fuck happened in the 90s with cosmo
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I read that first one for the missus as " listen for his lechery " and thought I was in for a wild ride.
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Looks like 2 lesbians lol
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I legit thought the one on the left was "the wife" until I looked to the right. The sections being under the "wrong" person didn't help either.
Obvously that would be fine if they were, but I doubt the people who made this would think that wayEdit - after properly reading it, it's more wholesome than I thought it would be.
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where is the do's?
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ie, "Talk to her of anything you would talk of to a man...," "be thoughtful," "Listen for him...," implied: "help him dress," "complement him," "share [your jokes]," etc
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"Listen for his latchkey and meet him on the threshold."
"Let your wife share them."
"At least be thoughtful."
I'm in a hurry. There might have been others.
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The only thing I can think about is how hot and sticky and sandy and salty and itchy those (cotton?) swimsuits must be after a day at the beach
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I sometimes go into the sea with a cotton t-shirt as protection against the sun, and I have no such annoyances afterwards. It's definitely full of sand and not recommended to bring inside anywhere, but apart from that I have no complaints.
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To be fair, I am more "aware" than most about what my skin is touching. I only feel comfortable with loose clothing and anything tight aorund my neck (think of turtlenecks or ties) make me feel uneasy. Sunburn turns all of that up to 11 and makes it unbearable for me to wear a salty T-shirt. You have more sun discipline than I, and for that I respect you
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I'm shocked that the advice to the husbands is to not be a jerk.
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I would have guessed this was from somewhere around the late-70's to mid-80's based on clothing.
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Which AI wrote this? I have doubts about the authenticity....
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Fucking Tineye shit before going on witch hunts y'all luddites:
https://tineye.com/search/c355c3844efc4bcb78a9d5eb3f3fed0c5b5fb25c?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
I finally figured out what's annoying about y'all. Y'all don't hate the tech for the legitimate reasons to hate it, y'all hate it blindly without understanding it and now start to witch hunt on anything you think is AI, even though your analysis is about as good as a life time vegan's accessing whether something tastes like steak.
Recently read a horror webcomic where the comments were fool of people hating on the artist because they accused them of using AI. The artist had to release a YouTube video showing he got the uncanny valley effect of his art by using hand made 3D models and then painting over them in 2D with a 3D art style because they were getting mass reported on webtoon.
I think I'm more sick of the dumb bandwagoning and hypocrisy (referencing some recent posts of people against AI but still using Google search for example) of many of you anti-AI people than I am of AI memes. And it's really annoying to say that.
Just, freaking learn how it works first and use tools like Tineye before making accusations will ya?
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This image has been around for a long time but I still think the text is fake. I don't think that font existed back then, for instance.
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I finally figured out what’s annoying about y’all. Y’all don’t hate the tech for the legitimate reasons to hate it, y’all hate it blindly without understanding it and now start to witch hunt on anything you think is AI,
Urgh, there's nothing worse than AI techbros strawmannnig the shit out of their beloved slop.
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didn't read; too American
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AI slop, look at the woman's hand and mans' toes.
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Incredibly advanced ai actually, since it also time travelled back to 2007 to publish this image in the daily mail of that time.
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She has 5 fingers and he has 5 toes (small toe is squished from side angle, it looks split because of the grain in the photograph).
But also, it would be a weird detail to include what looks like a Windows XP mouse in grab mode in the center above the photo.
The outfits also look normal and accurate for the time period, as are the poses.
Even if this was actually generated by AI (and reiterating it really doesn't look like it was in this case), there would still need to be a lot if photoshop involved to make the image look like that, because AI generates old pictures too "cleanly", and it's still not good enough to render that much text in that style, that uniformly in a box.
I swear y'all are like evangelicals saying there's demons in teletubbies and Pokemon cards are tarot now. If you think everything is a demon you'll find them.
Edit: and just to really prove I'm right, Tineye shows multiple copies of this image, with the oldest one going back to 2016:
https://tineye.com/search/c355c3844efc4bcb78a9d5eb3f3fed0c5b5fb25c?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
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This isn’t as appallingly sexist as I expected it to be
A lot of the conversations we have today are the same that people have been having for generations. It still seems anachronistic to read sometimes though.
Like complaining about how children act, or how no one wants to work anymore. Or how the politicians have lost their minds.
Just proves to me that humans won’t ever learn
Yeah, if it used gender-neutral language, most of it would be solid relationship advice.
The only one that's particularly awful is the demand for wives to scamper to the door when the husband arrives, like a good little housepet. 🤮
Yeah, I think with a minor revision, that one would be okay. Just like, if you're a stay-at-home mom or something, when your husband gets home, holler out to him, greet him, let him know where you are, you know, let him know he's welcome to be home, something like that.
My ex-wife was a stay-at-home wife, and when I got home she would say, "Hey" to me and it was nice to be greeted when I got home.
Absent of the gender assumption, it's good advice for any spouse to greet their partner when they come home. There's a good chance that they've been working and being welcomed home can relieve a lot of the stress that builds up from being out of the house. It makes one feel like one has come home, rather than just come back to a place where one can take off one's shoes.
i'll be honest, i like when my wife greets me at the door when i get home. I like when my cats greet me at the door when i get home. likewise my wife really likes when the cats, or more importantly i greet her at the door (as it's a sign i'm having a good enough day to get up). we're usualy excited to see each other. but it's not a habit anyone but the cats have.
I do that when my wife comes home. Why would you not?
Eh. I'm a work from home house husband. I try to meet my wife by the door when she gets home. We have dogs so it's pretty easy for me to tell when she pulls up.
I think the problem comes when the spous feels entitled to the treatment which is different.
This is from a time when only one of the members of a house had to work.
Yeah, as a dude I would hate that. Give me a minute to decompress.
Written by a decent person in an appallingly sexist culture. I'm sure we see such things every day...