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~ By an Anonymous Contributor When I was twenty-seven I married a thirty-four-year-old bachelor, a rough, tough naval officer and for the next twenty-seven years he remained rough and tough. I bent over backwards trying to change him into a tender, loving husband. Nothing worked! All through his navel career he was spit and polish…and […]

By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 06/26/2020 When I was little, going to a movie was a rare and expensive occasion, and now anyone can watch movies in their own home at the press of a remote button. Cars used to be terrible gas-guzzlers and often didn’t have seat belts or tinted windows; now driving is safer […]

One of my pet peeves is the TV going full blast during meals. But this has been my husband’s wish and I have accepted it. Since the lesson on sympathetic understanding, then doing some of the things we talked about in class, I’ve been surprised at how much the children and I were taking for […]

By Dixie Andelin Forsyth, 6/11/20 “I really thought you’d do more with your life than just raise a bunch of children.” “Are you sure you want to be a mother? What about YOUR needs? Don’t you want to feel fulfilled?” “She’s doing something important with her life, not wasting it by being a stay-at-home mom.” […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor “I had a perfect opportunity to use sympathetic understanding on the very first day of my Fascinating Womanhood class. When my husband came home from an unusually bad day at work, he was in a terrible mood, ready to pick a fight over the least little thing. Instead of being […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor John and I got married while he was in his final year of Vet school. We were madly in love and being married was heaven on earth. But as time went by, we ran into trouble: 1) I was an IT consultant and was well established in my career. Because […]

~ By an Anonymous Contributor “The Fascinating Womanhood course has helped me, especially in learning to support my husband in many ways. We’ve been married twenty-two years. My husband decided to change his job two months ago to go into selling. He took a salesman course. He needed help in making the decision because it […]

~ 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. […]