WHAT WISE WIVES KNOW...
Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower interviewed in Today's Woman (June 1948):
"If a bride can make up her mind at the beginning of her marriage that she is the wife and that her husband is the head of the house, all of the adjustments and strains that are sure to come will take care of themselves. ‘Happily ever after’ does not follow the ceremony automatically. It takes wit and straight thinking and a good deal of adapting on both sides.
The wise wife is the one who says at the beginning:
'I will be the one to volunteer to do most of the adapting. It is worth it.'
"If I were newly married today I could wish nothing better for myself than to understand that idea in so many words, rather than instinctively. Men are so easy to please if you do not become belligerent over the little things that make no difference anyhow. But there were many times in my early married life when I had to go into conference with myself and say:
‘Listen. Is it worth it to have my own way about this? What am I gaining, anyway, if Ike would rather have it some other way?’”
Agree or disagree?