Calling all Wives! Opinions requested!

I filled it out too.

filled out. God, I had no idea I felt that way.

I did it, too.

Moi, aussi! :slight_smile:

For those of us who are not wives nor intend to change that situation, what were some of the questions?

Stuff like: what do you complain most about being a wife? What do you like about being a wife? How many times have you been married? Do you have kids? Do you - suffer, tolerate, enjoy, can’t live without - your husband. Lots of multiple choice along those lines. Age group. Do you think you’re a good mother, scale of 1-10. Why did you pick that choice? How’s your sex life?

Stuff like that.

You can follow the link and read the questions without filling them out. Being a guy, I didn’t take the survey, but I thought they were asking good questions, by and large.

I filled it out. I feel a lot like Faruiza, I’m so happy in my relationship that I love sharing about it. I really do have to work at keeping my mouth shut around newlyweds because I want to spout all sorts of advice that most likely has no bearing on their relationship.

Anyone in a long-term relationship can participate. You don’t have to be formally married.

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We’ve had a few lesbians fill out the survey and more than a handful of wives who were in love with other women.

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I filled it out this morning and signed up for updates, and got an interesting email back asking for more detail about one of the questions, so I sent a bit of a ramble back in return. Hope some of it is useful!

Done! I always think these kinds of things are cool. I look forward to hearing the results.

I found myself torn with the “How do you feel about your husband” question. I love him, and can’t imagine my life without him (and don’t WANT to imagine my life without him), but I can’t say “I can’t live without him,” because…well, I would live, it would just suck. It would sound like I’m dependent on him for my survival. Still, I understood the typical meaning assigned the phrase…and you know, I’m not sure I remember what my exact response was to that one. One of those two.

Yeah, me too. I mean, I love my husband a lot, but I wouldn’t die without him, I’d just be very very sad. So I did the same thing. And I sent an email ramble too; the question they were asking about hadn’t made a lot of sense to me in the first place, so I was interested to see what they meant by it.

Submitted. Although I wish I hadn’t now. I don’t think my responses (I didn’t fill out any explanations either) are indicative of my true feelings about my marriage, but more a product of depression.

In the past, I have been very confident about my marriage and thought I had one of the best. I actually rated my husband much higher than myself, although I seem to be relatively indifferent about my marriage these days. That tells me that no matter how good you have it, depression just sours life experiences. :frowning:

In case anyone was wondering, Wife Research is my friend doing the study so feel free to ask questions. She is very happy with the wide variety of resposes so far.

I think it’s cool to see others who found themselves giving more thought to their relationship after taking the survey. I know I did.

I answered, but I thought many of the questions were phrased very strangely. “If you had the opportunity, do you think you would ever cheat on your spouse?” So…cheating is merely a matter of opportunity?

In the context of this survey, I think I would have asked, “Have you ever considered cheating on your spouse?” But it would be even less finger-wagging to ask, “Have you ever been, or thought about being, physically or emotionally involved with someone outside your marriage?”

“Do you have a secret in your closet that your husband can never find out about?” My interpretation was, “Do you have a secret you’ve hidden so well that your husband can never discover it?” The question that followed made it clear my interpretation was not correct. I think I would have phrased the question “Is there anything you’ve kept from your husband out of concern for what would happen if he found out?”

freckafree, you bring up a good point. I’ve always had issues with polls and profiles tat are either too yes/no or weighted to one end of the scale. I didn’t find that so much with this one but I’m sure your comments will be helpful and taken in to consideration.

I thought this was odd, too. I have every faith that I could certainly *make *opportunity if I wanted… but the fact is that I love my husband and I just wouldn’t betray him like that!

We have very little control over where our emotional attachments form, but I refuse to believe we don’t have any control over what we do about those attachments. Being attracted to another man isn’t cheating. Having the *opportunity *to flirt with that man isn’t cheating. Acting on it? That’s cheating.

YMMV, of course. I’m not naturally flirty (though I’m playful) so flirting automatically goes hand-in-hand with intent for me. I know plenty of girls who flirt quite innocently; their margin for where ‘cheating’ comes in is quite different to mine, as it should be.

ETA: I also had some trouble with the ‘how would you rate yourself as a wife’ bit. As far as traditional wives go, I suck. I’d admit that. If the question were phrased more like ‘How well do you think you meet your husband’s requirements as a life partner’, I’d do a *lot *better. He doesn’t want a stereotypical wife.

Ah, see, and I was very pleased with the way they worded it, because it takes individual marriage contracts into account. No, I would never and have never “cheated” on my husband - as he and I define cheating. I’ve been physically and emotionally involved with people outside of my marriage, but since we’ve agreed that’s okay and even desirable, I don’t (and he doesn’t) consider that “cheating”.

I’m not married… or even female, I just came here to say two things.

First, I clicked on that link and watched the pictures of those women scroll through out twice. Those women are beautiful. That one in the red top, hot! I needs to get me one of those, er what you call em, wives!

Also I just wanted to let Brown Eyed Girl know that I was hoping she was having a better day. Turn on your PM’s, I was gonna send you one.

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