OMG! Do any of you ladies remember the Maribel Morgan book "The Total Woman"?

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and was promoted as Godly advice for wives. If so, did you follow her teachings? It was approved by many conservative churches at the time, and she was all over TV. I wonder if anyone actually met their "hubby" at the front door wearing Saran wrap, as she suggested?

(nothing but Saran wrap! )

Answer 1

Oh yes......I did greet my husband with plastic wrap and he still chose a football game. I got the outfits from Fredricks and the whole nine yards. Rose petals to the hot bath with fragranced oils and candle light and romantic music. Nada. Dirty talk and costumes....whole nine yards. I was 5'2 , 102 lbs...not ugly, working, educated, even read other "sexual" books to improve my talents......a fat, ugly, biker woman with a drug problem beat me out.

Answer 2

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OMG! Do any of you ladies remember the Maribel Morgan book "The Total Woman"?
and was promoted as Godly advice for wives. If so, did you follow her teachings? It was approved by many conservative churches at the time, and she was all over TV. I wonder if anyone actually met their "hubby" at the front door wearing Saran wrap, as she suggested?

Answer 3

Marabel Morgan

Answer 4

"It's only when a woman surrenders her life to her husband, reveres and worships him and is willing to serve him, that she becomes really beautiful to him," Morgan wrote.

Marabel Morgan created quite a stir with her book[s]...there is even a 'ministry' based on her views.

Actually I know of a few women who believe in Covenant Marriage but who also are married to men to believe in the wife having equal voice in the marriage.

Answer 5

Someone gave it to my mum, all I heard was hysterical laughing and Yeah riiiiiight, I think they'd been married about 25 years at that time.

Probably would have given my pop a heart attack if she'd done that.

The lady nextdoor used to sunbathe nude on her roof which faced my grandfather's bedroom. My mother politely told her to cover herself or she'd be responsible for the old man's death.

Always wondered why the neighbourhood men wanted to eat lunch with grampa LOL.

Answer 6

Old thread, but the book came out just about the time I got married for the 2nd time. I read parts of it in a bookstore, but had to stop because I was laughing so hard. I told my husband that since I got home from work after he did, he should greet ME at the door wrapped in Saran wrap and his old work boots. Somebody donated it to the church library where my mother went, she read it and took it back to the pastor, holding it between her thumb and forefinger like you would something nasty, and told him it didn't belong in their library.

Answer 7

I remember that book. Maribel Morgan was a goofy character. My husband liked her suggestion that couples have sex at least once a day. At least it got people to realize Christian women enjoyed sex with their husbands.

Answer 8

Yes, it should have been subtitled, "How to manipulate your husband into buying you a fur coat." I believe in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, Kathy Bates' character did try the saran wrap move. If memory serves, her hubby said something like, "Do you want the neighbors to see you!!"

Answer 9

We just moved and I found that in my bookcase! I thought my 28 year-old daughter was going to die laughing! My how times have changed! (Never met my hubby at the front door wearing Saran Wrap though. Although now, it may help hold things in place!)

Answer 10

I never read it. You can get really confused with all these new fandagal ways to be: a women, man, housewife, working mother, father. With a new one coming out every few months.

We must not let people influence us to the point of total confusion.

Proverbs 31:10, is my yardstick.