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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Spousal irritation checklists for marital bliss, ca. 1930

Spousal irritation checklists for marital bliss, ca. 1930: "

These old data-collection checklists were used as part of a 1930s project to enable husbands and wives to give one another constructive feedback and end seething resentments by identifying and tabulating frequent sources of irritation.


In the 1930s, [Scientific Marriage Foundation founder George Crane] went around to a bunch of husbands and said, 'Hey husband, what does your wife do that annoys you?' And then he added all those complaints up and created a handy chart that let you rate your spouse against the generic ideal/anti-ideal. That's what you see in the chart above.



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