Yes-Dearing Your Way to a Happy Marriage?

The New York Times
Julie V. Iovine
February 8, 2001

If the title had been scrawled in broom smoke across the sky, it could not have sent chillier shivers down my spine: "The Surrendered Wife: A Practical Guide to Finding Intimacy, Passion and Peace With a Man."

In a flash, the book brought back what my mother — a housewife with four children who never left the bedroom without a full face of makeup — had preached in the 1970's. "Let him handle everything — just bite your tongue," she would instruct as I grabbed the car keys and dashed for the door ready to seize the next bull by the horns.

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Dr. Jean Baker Miller, a psychiatrist and director of training at the Wellesley Center for Women, at Wellesley College, said: "These ideas periodically come back around in one form or another. The whole change in the image of women that we've been going through is incredibly complex. People react with simple answers. But this is one of the most simple that I've heard."

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