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Marriage tips from 1913 (media.piefed.world)
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[-] [email protected] 280 points 1 month ago

This isn’t as appallingly sexist as I expected it to be

[-] [email protected] 106 points 1 month ago

A lot of the conversations we have today are the same that people have been having for generations. It still seems anachronistic to read sometimes though.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago

Like complaining about how children act, or how no one wants to work anymore. Or how the politicians have lost their minds.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago

I was watching something from the late 60s the other day, and there was a line by a young actress explaining that young people don't think there will be a future for them and are living accordingly.

It was the exact same sentiment you would expect to see while doom-scrolling today.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

I mean.....

Basically every generation since the boomers had valid reason to believe WWIII would end us all. Everyones got nukes, and humans are stupid enough to use them!

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Yeah, if it used gender-neutral language, most of it would be solid relationship advice.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

The only one that's particularly awful is the demand for wives to scamper to the door when the husband arrives, like a good little housepet. 🤮

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

Absent of the gender assumption, it's good advice for any spouse to greet their partner when they come home. There's a good chance that they've been working and being welcomed home can relieve a lot of the stress that builds up from being out of the house. It makes one feel like one has come home, rather than just come back to a place where one can take off one's shoes.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I think with a minor revision, that one would be okay. Just like, if you're a stay-at-home mom or something, when your husband gets home, holler out to him, greet him, let him know where you are, you know, let him know he's welcome to be home, something like that.

My ex-wife was a stay-at-home wife, and when I got home she would say, "Hey" to me and it was nice to be greeted when I got home.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's much more reasonable. Basically, "Show your partner you care that they're there".

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

i'll be honest, i like when my wife greets me at the door when i get home. I like when my cats greet me at the door when i get home. likewise my wife really likes when the cats, or more importantly i greet her at the door (as it's a sign i'm having a good enough day to get up). we're usualy excited to see each other. but it's not a habit anyone but the cats have.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I do that when my wife comes home. Why would you not?

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[-] [email protected] 189 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I kind of expected these to have aged worse. Some are solid - if a little obvious in modern times - advice.

And then there are the others... At least some of them are humorous; show them to your partner guys i'm sure she will appreciate them. Even if she is just a wife 🫠

[-] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago

I showed it to my wife and she laughed a bit too hard at the "devoid of colour sense" part.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

were you wearing purple and green at the time?

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago

Hey, the joker pulls it off!

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but he's also a homocidal maniac who comits mass murder.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Man, color theory is intense.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Yeah, it’s not that these are bad. It’s that many people of the time needed to be told these in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Many people today need to be told these...

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[-] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago

"Even a wife is an individual". Wait what.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Very progressive for 2025, unfortunately we're heading backwards where we need this said again...

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago

My work colleagues are fucking morons.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

For real. My wife is more intelligent than my entire department combined

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

so like, i used to belong to a cult. they had this "what should you be looking for in a spouse" lesson and I mentioned I was looking for someone intelligent, as someone who couldn't keep up with me would be boring. i practically started a riot. like, sign a million that cult was not for me.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

One of the many myriad things I adore about my wife is that she will ask me questions about things to understand them better. To the point where she’s made me look up sources and challenge and sometimes change what I know to be true.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well by that logic, so is your wife.

Why would you insult her like that?

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[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago

That's right lady's! Don't let your man leave the house with brown boots and a black belt. Use the belt and restrain him until he gets his color's right!

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

DON'T say your wife wastes time in reading, even if she only reads fiction.

[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

I guess in 1913 that was "you spend too much time watching trash TV"

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

My idiot brother is going through a divorce right now. I reeeealy want to send this to him

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These are all don'ts. Where are some of the do's?

I'm actually surprised some of the don'ts for the husbands are good advice.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

I remember reading that these were written by a woman, so there was less misogyny.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Surprisingly not the blatant misogyny I expected given the title

Though the typography has me feeling this is a potentially bit more modern than 1913, however I'm not quite sure when this sort of sans-serif tabloidy style became prevalent, so I could be completely off the mark.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

It's apparently legit and from a British author named Blanche Ebbutt.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

This is too damn woke for MAGA

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago
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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pfah! I sneer at your bridge-playing!

Margaret handed you your ass every week for the last month! You can't take tricks for shit.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

This is... pretty solid honestly. Is there more of a list? With the Do's?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Manliness is not purely a physical quality

Surprisingly accepting of trans men for that era

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I read that first one for the missus as " listen for his lechery " and thought I was in for a wild ride.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

So like what the fuck happened in the 90s with cosmo

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