UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20234, 19 April 1929, Page 14

UNHAPPY MARRIAGES.

Sir, —May I remark upon the letter inserted by "The Man." It seerps unfair to married women in general to be so sweeping in his statements. He speaks as though all women'are tarred with the same brush. I, too, can speak from personal experience, as well as from long observation of other people's married life, Very few men get to the worshipping stage. It is rather the other way round —they expect to be worshipped. As for a senso of duty—if the woman's ideas of not entirely coincide with those of the man sho is wrong—absolutely! "The Man" asks when will women understand that marriage is a mutual contract. I ask when will the male fraternity do the same? Just let "The Man" think of what a woman has to suffer and stand for in married life. A home is nothing without a child. Yet, what must the mother go though—and after all what thanks does sho get, and what consideration—to make the ideal married life ? All day long, if there are kiddies, she has to smooth all their little worries and upsets, attend tothe household duties, worry over ths financial part of the business, see that hubby's dinner is just so when he . arrives, tho kiddies all clean and quiet, and if possible affable, and dozens of other petty things of which a man knows nothing and cares less, so long as he is comfortably fed and clothed. Just let "The Man" think back and see if he always was considerate and helpful, and if his mate was always "blind to reason" and "utterly lacking in a sense of duty" and perhaps he will see that, he was very often as much in the wrong as the woman. The Woman. .