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For much of history, men's relationships with wives and children was not held to the modern loving standards. Isn't this analogous to noting that "founding fat
by dogruck 9y ago
For much of history, men's relationships with wives and children was not held to the modern loving standards.
Isn't this analogous to noting that "founding fathers owned slaves!"
- maxxxxx 9y agoI don't think it was ever common that a husband would write to his wife a letter clearly laying out rules like in this letter: http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/einsteins-demands.html http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/04/einsteins-demands.html No trying to demonize him but this definitely a little unusual.
- dogruck 9y agoI think by the standards of history, that letter would be deemed kind. Keep in mind that often times wives were essentially viewed as property, and subject to extreme (physical) abuse. And of course that hasn't stopped. I'm not supporting that behavior, of course.
- red75prime 9y ago> you will stop talking to me if I request it; I guess I can relate to what was happening there, and I can't dismiss the possibility of (extreme) psychological abuse from the other side.
- pizza 9y agoDid she not write one for him?