Monthly Archives: May 2020

~ By an Anonymous Contributor “My husband and I have always been happily married, but I was beginning to feel something was missing. After five years of marriage, the honeymoon was really over. I picked at my husband, was the boss, yelled at the children, had a violent temper, managed the finances, and was downright […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor “My biggest problem was love. I had not been taught what love was like. Acceptance was the key word for me. Wow, I love that man now! No more picking—he’s too perfect. He has his faults, but not many. How wonderful it is to have a man to lean on. […]

By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 05/22/2020 Maybe you read that title and did a double take, thinking, “Wait a second, most feminists are female, aren’t they? Wouldn’t that indicate ‘feminine’?” All females are technically feminine, right? Not so fast. A woman may have two X chromosomes, the face of an angel, luscious flowing hair and an […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor A delicious meal will be made to appear more appetizing with the feminine touch of a tablecloth. Shortly after I was married my husband and I were putting away our wedding gifts. I gleefully pulled my tablecloths one by one. “This one is perfect for a spaghetti dinner,” I said. […]

By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 05/15/20 These days are unprecedented in most of our lives. Even for those people whose financial health isn’t seriously affected, many report that their marriages and relationships are stressed more than ever before. There are several potential areas that can trigger even more stress that many are experiencing now: 1. Money […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor There is a notion among women that men don’t like curlers on their wives. This may be true if they wear them in public or in bed, but most men don’t object to curlers at home in the daytime. “After all,” they reason, “She is trying to be beautiful for […]

~ By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 05/08/2020 Of all the people grappling with the difficulties of this Covid-19 lockdown, one of the more common challenges I’ve seen for mothers is keeping children home when they’re normally expending energy and socializing at school. My heart goes out to those who struggle to keep their kids from going […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor My best friend and her husband moved from another state to our area. We were overjoyed to see each other again and did so frequently as the months passed. Soon, she began to confide to me her intimate problems. After a broken love affair, she married on the rebound to […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor I borrowed Fascinating Womanhood from a friend and it’s a miracle. In three days, my life has changed so dramatically I can’t believe it. It’s fantastic. In the past few years, my husband of 22 years and I and our five children have not been happy. Last year we separated […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor I have always been happily married (14 years) and have a marvelous husband, so as I read Fascinating Womanhood I was thinking how this could help my friends, Jill and Marsha. Then it seemed to easy and like magic that I thought it best to put it to work. Well, […]