When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.