How to Train a Husband

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  • Posted By: manos69 @ 02/14/2008 2:45:48 PM

    THAT'S SOME NERVE. GOT FORBID A MAN COMPARED A WOMWN TO AN ANIMAL HE'D HAVE HIS ASS DRAGGED INTO COURT. I'M MARRIED 26 YEARS, I'M NOT PERFECT BUT MY WIFE HAS NEVER TREATED AS AN ANIMAL. wE CAN'T WIN WITH WOMEN. WE'RE SNSITIVE WE'RE SOFT MOMMAS BOYS. WE ACT LIKE MEN, THEN WE'RE NEANDERTHALS. MAKE UP YOUR MINDS.

  • Posted By: Attila1 @ 02/14/2008 2:44:43 PM

    Absolutely! But don't forget, If it's okay for women to teach men this way...then the opposite is true as well!
    So, ladies....get ready to be coached like animals! (Remember, not my words...it's the words of the author!)

  • Posted By: Sharico66 @ 02/14/2008 2:44:30 PM

    response to marly629- I don't mind making my husband a drink when he comes home. I do get annoyed when he asks me to make a drink (as he walks in the door) after I get home from my full time job and am trying to get dinner started. He's not helpless. No one makes me a drink. Marriage/ relationships require respect and compromise from BOTH SIDES. Sorry this isn't the 1950's and I'm not June Cleaver. I envy those women who don't have to work. Working women (those of us who can't affford a nanny, someone to clean the house for us, cook for us, etc,) end up having to go home to our second FULL TIME job of taking care of our spouse/ family.

  • Posted By: photogreg @ 02/14/2008 2:40:58 PM

    someday when he meets someone who likes him for him, thats where he will be.
    enjoy it while you can.
    photogreg

  • Posted By: whatev @ 02/14/2008 2:40:29 PM

    Maybe we should stop seeing it as training. Maybe we should stop seeing this as changing a person. Look if a spouses socks on the floor bother you that much then discuss it with your spouse. You don't need to train him/ her to pick it up. If you discuss it properly (without nagging) then I bet most spouses would change their behavior. Positive reinforcement always helps. Thats not training, its called encouragement and support. It is also showing the other person that you appreciate the things they do, especially if those things are done for the other person's happiness. We don't need to train eachother. We need to learn to coexist with eachother. The best way to do that is to communicate openly, honestly and positively. Also some positive rewards do help. To entice me to quit smoking my wife offered certain things in the bedroom. I must say that it was an added benefit to quitting and it was an added motivation to remain a nonsmoker. She didn't train me, she supported me and helped to motivate me to accomplish something good.

    Maybe divorce rates are so high in this country because people approach marriage in a way in which they think they have to train the other person to do what they want done. Nobody wants to be manipulated in that way. If you are successful in training your partner in a manipultive way you might think you have "won", right up to the point when they realize you have made them a person that they don't like and they leave you to go off and be who they want to be.

  • Posted By: Attila1 @ 02/14/2008 2:39:42 PM

    Absosulely! Just don't forget, the same tactics work on women as well!
    Therefore, just like wifes try to train husbands, husbands also train wifes the same way!

  • Posted By: Sharico66 @ 02/14/2008 2:36:14 PM

    reponse to Marly629 -- I don't mind making a drink for my husband when he comes home, but I get annoyed when he asks me to just after I have come home from my full time job and am trying to get dinner started as he walks in the house. He's not helpless, No one ever makes me a drink. Repect goes both ways. Both sexes need to learn to not take each other for granted. A marriage requires compromise on both sides.

  • Posted By: democratic @ 02/14/2008 2:36:08 PM

    You are reinforcing some of the stereo types that placed you (women) into a state of inequality. The women who can communicate effectively as a true woman should see that this is garbage. The person who wrote this obviously has a problem interacting with men.

  • Posted By: HappilyHopeful @ 02/14/2008 2:35:48 PM

    Didn't anyone ever see the OLD movie: If a Man Answers, Hang Up??? :)

  • Posted By: tomswife @ 02/14/2008 2:35:24 PM

    Realityhurts--you are a real woman hater from the dark ages. More women are working longer hours than ever before, and then come home to take care of the house and kids, while their husband "unwinds". They really don't have the time to get fat and lazy. And you're assuming a bit much when you think HE provided the Mercedes. I know plenty of women who worked for and paid for their own.

  • Posted By: HappilyHopeful @ 02/14/2008 2:35:07 PM

    Didn't anyone ever see the old Sandra Dee movie: If a Man Answers, Hang Up?? :)

  • Posted By: realityhurts @ 02/14/2008 2:17:22 PM

    Really, shouldn't the SHAMU apporach be used on women, only...they are often appropriately compared to the killer whale when they get fat and no longer actively participate in marriages...while the hubby gets into traffic each morning at 4 to 5 am, with all the other males, so that the bills can be paid. How does one train a woman in a system that inapproriately gives them all the power in the event of a break-up?

    • Posted By: NASCARGAL20 @ 02/14/2008 2:33:44 PM

      AND I SUPPOSE WOMEN, AFTER GETTING MARRIED, ARE THE ONLY ONE'S WHOSE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE CHANGES??? REALLY NOW, I GUESS YOU POT BELLIED, BALDING FLAT BUTTED MEN LOOKED LIKE THAT WHEN WE MARRIED YOU. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE .... AND DO YOU REALLY THINK MEN ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HAVE TO GET UP EVERY MORNING AND DRAG THEMSELVES OFF TO WORK. YOU SIR ARE A MALE CHAUVENIST.....SHAMU.

  • Posted By: guppymoy @ 02/14/2008 2:32:01 PM

    woof woof !! I didnt see it all coming !!! Shamuuuuuuuu!! I give up !! woof woof !!

  • Posted By: mjlasota @ 02/14/2008 2:31:07 PM

    Can you imagine if a book were out, "How to train your woman to be obedient like an animal." Holy crap, you would have an outrage of feminists frothing at the mouth. Men evrerywhere on all these stupid talkshows would be chastized. Gimmie a break! There is a huge double standard in this country. Maybe men in other homes don't mind wearing the skirt and submitting to their wives at every request. Maybe that is the type of man these women want (it actually isn't because they will get bored and want a badboy they can change not before long). A wimpy man who is controlled by the woman may work in some homes, BUT NOT MINE. And if women don't like it then don't date me. My lady is educated (going for her master's degree) and very intelligent. I treat her equal in terms of equal respect. But she knows who the man is and that is never in question. She believes in traditional values as well as pushes herself to be her best. She would never dare to challenge my manhood. She is an awesome cook and has a beautiful figure, which she does her best to keep. She is also not American. These spoiled brat American women want their cake and eat it too. They love tradition when it benefits them, but wil throw feminism in your face when it doesn't. They love when a man fixes things, cuts the grass, changes the oil, pays for things, and is a gentleman. But when it comes to them cooking a meal, holy crap, look out. This is a joke. Don't try to compete with men because of insecurities and inadequacies. Be the best you can be and embrace being a woman, don't resent it.

  • Posted By: tomswife @ 02/14/2008 2:30:59 PM

    Hey realityhurts--you're a real woman hater from the dark ages, aren't you? How many women have the luxury of staying home and getting fat these days. There are just as many, if not more women going to work as men, and then most of them still have to come home to take care of the house and the kids while their husband unwinds.

  • Posted By: NormL33 @ 02/14/2008 2:30:11 PM

    During the past 41 years, I have had to endure sour, dour, contentious and usually unmarried females confronting me and correcting me about remarks they felt demeaned women. Their rational was that these remarks were "sexist", "chauvinistic" and "misogynistic". They did not accept claims that the remarks were in jest, or so much as tongue-in-cheek in content. Their modern-day successors , particularly in places like Manhattan, periodically spew sexist, chauvanistic and misandrist invective at males...and then immediately try to write it off as,"Can't you take a joke"?" They try and get away with the very behaviors their predecessors worked so hard to make illegal. These 'feministas' are so clinically inflated, they constantly take individual relationships and immediately globalize them into examples of universal truth. In short, they are megalomaniiac misandrists.

  • Posted By: LAWDAWG @ 02/14/2008 2:29:24 PM

    <Yawn> Life is too short to be unhappy. If you're married to a feminazi, just trade her in and get a new one. Just think of the divorce costs as small for the price of sanity

  • Posted By: millermb10 @ 02/14/2008 2:26:11 PM

    okay!one you cant train anyone...its just positive reinforcement..secondly,if you dont like what your mate is doing..tell him and maybe there is something youre doing he doesnt like..try a if i stop doing this will you work on being better at not doing that approach...as far as the laundry goes..if he doesnt help out with it he should be doing his own laundry including the towels he use....youre not his mom and as soon as we stop "rewarding" them theyll realize youre not my mom your my wife...and get up and do what there parents shoulda taught them to do in the first place....be nice,clean up,and stop being a *** b/c people dont like JA's..

  • Posted By: realityhurts @ 02/14/2008 2:24:29 PM

    The concept is backwards; it is women who grow overweight and atempt to change the rules after signing the contract, No? How does one train a woman, who often look like Shamu, to jump through his hoops. After getting on the highway with all the other males so that the standard of living can be maintained, while she spends the morning at Starbucks/playing tennis/drivving the mercedes his work provided, all she needs to do is go to a court to have it all handed to her...Really ladies, the idea of training a man on Valentines Day...???????These articles are written by unthinking, unmarried twits, who think they are moving the "conversation" forward, but who don't even know what thte conversation is!

    Boys and men are worth more than considering them as trainable animals!

  • Posted By: marly629 @ 02/14/2008 2:16:18 PM

    that is enough ladies, self ritchouse woman need to learn how to respect their own husbands. Mind their own business and stop complaining and whinning. their should be a book out teaching women o how to respect husbands. see this is why there are so many divorces. try this, take his shoes off give him a little massage and ask how his day was. trust me it will not kill you. women need to learn to loosen up a little and relax..........life is too short to be bitter about the smallest things in life. CHILL LADIES

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