Thus, the toolbox, the workbench and the Saturday morning honey do list become staples of the male existence. Imagine the chaos that can ensue if she s supposed to just sit there and look pretty while he keeps misrouting the spark plug wires. And if both of you hate mechanical work, borrow a chapter from your employer s Human Resources department and out-source the task to capable hands. The traditional advice to grooms is to let their wives decorate the living space however she pleases, since it is she who will spend the most time in it. Obviously, that s not true anymore, but females continue to dominate the home decoration realm.
Smart couples begin with a healthy respect for iconography.
At the extreme end is the Russian Orthodox religious tradition, where icons are regarded as windows to heaven. Silently gazing at them fortifies one s relationship with God. The scaled down version of this phenomenon is the sentimental value we associate with everything from our favorite chair to our favorite song. In the half century since the Kinsey Report, we ve all been trained to think of men as impatient fifteen second thrills and women as tedious foreplay police. If the recipe was a bummer, don t use it again, but don t kill the cook.