Why are housewives so desperate?

Answer 1

You're playing on a hackneyed stereotype and title of tv drama fluff soap. I suggest a social experiment. Stay in your house for the next thirty years and only do washing, cleaning, ironing and cooking. You are allowed to watch daytime tv. Don't forget to pop out a few kids to devote your every waking minute to, who will ignore you from 18 onwards but keep demanding money until you die. You are allowed to see your partner for one hour an night. They will eat their dinner in front of the tv and completely ignore you. You are both too tired for sex. Your partner becomes a stranger and you dread their retirement as this means you will have to spend more time with them. No one respects you as being a housewife and parent doesn't count. Your life is made miserable by bitchy neighbours with equally empty lives and nothing to channel their energies into. Et viola! You're desperate.

Answer 2

I think it's a real thing, even nowadays. I remember my mother, who'd gone to college, going nuts at home, hating the isolation from other adults (except local housewives!), not enjoying the woes of child-rearing, being pretty ignorant about it (she was only 24 or so) and not knowing to appreciate the wonders of how great kids can be. Also, she got no help from my father, since he was "on the road" (a salesman) all day. People say men are different, but I don't see much of it now...I think the whole "new age", Mr. Mom thing was a fluke and most guys want nothing to do w/the household.

Is that enough reason for housewives to be desperate? I think so! That's why I caution young girls I know (like my kid's friends) not to get tied down in a relationship too soon and to get a good education. I also advocate contraceptive education for teens (I belong to NARAL and prochoiceamerica.org) and think parents with "empty-nest syndrome" (esp. moms) should STOP telling their young daughters it's "okay" if they have kids when they're still teens! These parents are being selfish; they just want another kid to raise because they have no life of their own!

The schools should also do more to educate kids about life choices and what happens when you do something (like marry young and have lots of kids) just because "everyone's doing it".

Answer 3

I don't know how many of them are "desperate." Certainly not all. Some are quite happy. There are an awful lot of variables.

But taking care of the house and/or kids, despite the fullfillment that comes from having and raising children, is a hard, sort of thankless and boring job. Lot of them come to feel that life is passing them by.

And their husbands tend to take them for granted, don't tell them often enough that they appreciate them, and gawk at younger women that haven't had their figure messed up by childbirth. And males in this living arrangement (he works outside the home, she doesn't) tend to feel like their lot in life is harder, more stressful and requires more smarts than is required of their wives, and because of that feel justified in being the "boss" in the relationship.

Most marriages aren't a democracy. There's nobody around to cast a tiebreaker. My last wife an I finally settled on flipping a coin when we were at an irreconcilable impasse. Most couples don't do that, however. One just gives in. And it's usually the woman. In a lot of situations, that's the only choice she has other than packing up her stuff and leaving.

A lot of women in that situation are angry and frustrated, but can't see wrecking everything and trying to make it on their own, so they just put up with it.

Answer 4

Because it sounded like a good title for a tv show.

Answer 5

they are bored & need attention, marriage is not what it's cracked up to be, most men just want a mother, not a wife or lover.

Answer 6

because they watch the wrong TV program

Answer 7

I not sure, not know many, maybe it those "Soaps" they watch. It give them a sense of romance and adventure.

Answer 8

They're not...unless they watch too much TV.

Answer 9

oh hahaha