Comments on: How To Be a Good Wife

By: Proud Daughter of Eve

Proud Daughter of Eve — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:24:57 +0000

Plagiarist! I’ve seen this movie. It was called “Date With Your Family,” and MST3K gave it their treatment in 1994.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:30:28 +0000

I’ve seen it before, too, as one of those circulating emails that credits this to a 1952 text book. There’s a movie?

By: Simonds Ryder

Simonds Ryder — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:48:14 +0000

I guess it’s not a huge surprise Stevie-boy ripped off his material from someone else. He’s condemned marriage as a lower law he doesn’t subscribe to in comments he’s made elsewhere in this blog.
Which makes the idea of Stevie-boy dispensing advice on building a happy marriage all the more amusing . . .

By: Irene

Irene — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:13:57 +0000

I have also seen it before. Truthfully I find it to work. So, Thank you for the un needed chastening. I guess I really am perfect.
The part we find works best for us is to clear away the clutter to get an “extra lift”. It’s true, you never know what you can find lying around that you have forgotten was there. Actually my bonus Dad taught me that.

By: evans_cellblock32a

evans_cellblock32a — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:18:08 +0000

you never know what you can find lying around that you have forgotten was there

Or in glove compartments. No one likes pain, but sometimes we are called to pass through what I call the “portals of pain.”

Though some have mocked and scorned, my endless search for rainbows (ahhhhhhhhh)…

By: Stephen Erastus Knudsen III

Stephen Erastus Knudsen III — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:30:45 +0000

Sister PDOE,
I don’t know how anyone can ever claim plagerism of another’s work. That implies ownership, and all things come to us from God, so all things are his in the first place. It mattereth not if one person borrows the wisdom of another as long as God is cited as the source. He doth not even require MLA.

It was an excellent lesson, today, by the way. I was able to use the commitment pattern to effectively ensure that each husband in my quorum will present this information to his wife between the hours of 6pm and 8pm Monday evening, for their FHE lesson (so two birds, really). I think we may start to see a signficant change here. I am so glad. If only there was a way to invest in hair ribbons.

By: Jessawhy

Jessawhy — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:06:48 +0000

Well, Brother Stephen, since you included me in the post, I will respond directly to your comments.
I am definately not the kind of wife you describe, although I did wear a ribbon in my hair last week (but, my husband was out of town, too bad). When he came back in town, he came home to a clean house and happy children. I then left for 1 1/2 days, and came home to a completely different house and different children (in some ways they were the same: they had not been bathed).
So, I would like to see a follow-up post about the requirements of men when they are the full-time caregivers and housekeepers.
In what ways do their tasks differ from women’s and in what ways are they the same?

By: Stephen Erastus Knudsen III

Stephen Erastus Knudsen III — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:34:03 +0000

Dear Sister Jessawhy,

I am very pleased to hear about your hair ribbons, although I would strongly advise that you wear them when your husband is in town, and not when you are home alone — otherwise, what is the point?

I am not without a sense of humor. And while your suggestion that husbands could be full-time caregivers and houskeepers is rather amusing, we should also be careful with such levity as this is one of many ways the Adversary is seeking to confuse gender roles in these perilous last days. So to address your questions regarding the follow-up post, please click on the highlighted words here and read the ensuing text. This should clear up any confusion.

By: Jessawhy

Jessawhy — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:16:50 +0000

Brother Stephen,
I’m glad I have amused you, although I can’t understand why. Perhaps you can explain what part of that document you linked precludes men from occasionally being responsible for housekeeping and childcare? It is not my husband’s primary responsibility, of course, but that does not mean it is not his responsibility from time to time.
(so there :P)

By: j_t

j_t — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:48:51 +0000

Jessawhy,

My guess is ol’ Brother Knudsen’s philosophies stem from a phobia of vacuum cleaners and dirty diapers more than anything doctrinal.

Being a priesthood holder myself, I don’t see anything wrong with a husband making life easier for his wife from time to time. Chasing after little kids all day, without any help, can drain anyone’s energy. Plus, helping out around the house is a way of showing love for your spouse - an action definitely keeping in spirit with the proclamation on the family.

By: Fenevad

Fenevad — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:28:27 +0000

Well this beats one of my wife’s young women’s leaders in Utah who taught things that would make Elder haKd happy. But one day she went a little bit further and told the girls, to their everlasting disgust and horror, about how she greeted her husband one day wrapped in nothing but Saran Wrap™©® and later fed him grapes while wearing only a sheet. All under the heading of “more than you want to know,” especially for the young womyn in a ward.

But at least she was “making the evening his.”

By: Stephen Erastus Knudsen III

Stephen Erastus Knudsen III — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:09:32 +0000

Sister Jessawhy, It never ceases to amaze me how we choose to read only those messages we want to read. Those who have ears to hear...

Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.

This comes right after:

All human beings—male and female... [have] a divine nature and destiny.

How much more clearer could it be? BTW --

wrapped in nothing but Saran Wrap

I rest my case.