[ SECRET POST #5532 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #5532 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



__________________________________________________



02.



__________________________________________________



03.



__________________________________________________



04.



__________________________________________________



05.



__________________________________________________



06.



__________________________________________________



07.




















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #792.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have thought this too. The problem is of course, that no other human is 100% reliable. You'd have a set of worries to weigh you down that are alien to us today - are you feeding your husband well enough? Do your kids and your husband look smart enough? Will your husband be pleased by the state of the house, is it clean enough? Do you look attractive enough for your husband?

Frankly, although it's hard to stand on your own feet, I much prefer it to being dependent on a man and having my world revolve around their pleasures. If I'm bringing in half the money, then the correct answer to a husband telling me he's displeased with how I look/the house/his meal is telling him to fuck off.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I mean, Durwood could be an ass in Bewitched, but the power always lay with Samantha.

[(Anonymous)]

+1
Yeah, the housewife fantasy is only ever appealing because the fantasy-husband is kind and respectful and won't let the power dynamic get to his head. Actual husbands from that time period though... oof

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Back then, you could have your wife legally committed and you could rape her and get away with it since it wasn't illegal to force your wife to have sex. Women couldn't even have their own bank accounts until the 60s. On top of that, a lot of women worked in the 40s - 60s because that's how everyone could afford to keep up with the Jones'. So, on top of all that housewife business--cooking, cleaning, child-rearing, husband pampering, gardening, volunteering, and generally keeping up appearances, many of them also worked outside of their home.

[(Anonymous)]

On top of that, a lot of women worked in the 40s - 60s because that's how everyone could afford to keep up with the Jones'.

Just to quantify this, because I think it's interesting - the labor participation rate in the US for women in the 1950s was generally in the 30s. Today, it's roughly around 55-60%.

So in other words, it's approximately around 25% of American women who would not have worked in the 1950s but who do work today.

[(Anonymous)]

You could buy a decent house on a single low middle class wage in the fifties. If you were white, at least.

[(Anonymous)]

Not my late parents-in-law. I have them [late FIL especially] to thank for my 76 year old husband who cleans the kitchen and bathroom floor *without* it having to be pointed out as needing doing and is otherwise completely equal ops.

[pantswarrior]

...Yeah.

I have been both entirely dependent on other people (not a partner) and had a partner entirely dependent on me in the past. I would take "making it on my own" over either, though "everything split equally" was definitely nice while it lasted.

I could see how either being the supporter or the supported can be a happy fantasy though, where everything is going okay and no one is unhappy with the situation.