# Wanted: Good Wife **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2004, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132 "2004-05-20T06:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/21 "2004-05-21T02:16:04Z")
> [@trublmakr](#): > > You will make a good husband if you keep that attitude, **if6was9**. > I still wouldn’t trust you or any man to do my laundry or grocery shop, though… women are much better at those things. > > \_I’m doing um… good_ \ \ I don’t know about laundry… but I could do just fine doing the grocery shopping… I watch Food Network all the time. 🙂 Us men only have so many skills… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/22 "2004-05-21T02:44:58Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > And yet… somehow… gay male households struggle on. 😃 **SNARF!** 😃 While I understand the spirit in which the OP was written, I can’t believe that opinions such as “women are better at grocery shopping/laundry” still persist… ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/23 "2004-05-21T02:55:00Z")
Bah. i’ve considered getting a husband w/o sex for the same reasons, I like men better than women for interpersonal interactions. There is so much less bullshit when dealing with men and I can feel alot more comfortable with one. Too bad i’m not gay. All i want is a husband w/o there being any sexual attraction between us. Somewhere between a best friend and a husband is what i’d like. We’d talk and go to movies and share personal stories, but still have lives and maybe even date other people but we’d always come before the women. Bros before hos. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/24 "2004-05-21T03:06:24Z")
Sorry, not original, been done before. Judy…Seyfert? ::digs out resources from shelf:: Syfers, not Seyfert. [http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/wife.html](http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/rainbow/wife.html) Apparently ran in the very first issue of _Ms._ Magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/25 "2004-05-21T03:19:39Z")
**scout1222** : How about four out of five? Okay, three out of five. 😃😉 (Boy, now I look like a stalker; having called you "the lovely **scout1222** in the Nanaimo Bar thread in Café Society! :o ) ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/26 "2004-05-21T03:31:11Z")
> [@trublmakr](#): > > I’ve long wished for a wife [to do] yard care, vehicle maintenance I think you mean husband. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/27 "2004-05-21T03:55:30Z")
Man I am so onboard with your idea trublmakr! Per the General 's suggestion I think a gay man-wife would be just the thing! The house would be spotless, the clothes all neatly arranged, and the clothes he would pick out have real verve and style, not the awful, ham handed “wifey” style so many women think looks good in men’s clothes. The house would be decorated in a comfortable, yet elegant _manly_ style, not randomly festooned with cutsey crap and country kitsch. The toilet set lid would be up most of the time. He would scan the weekend papers for interesting things to go to, and being a decisive _man_ he would book reservations ahead! Everything would be on track schedule wise because gay men are usually well organized. They’re like like human Palm Pilots! And if he wanted to say something he’d say it, no beating around the bush and playing that favorite female game of “Telepathic Avenger” AKA “Guess what I’m thinking, cause I sure as hell not going to come right out and tell you, and god forbid if you guess wrong”. And best of all I’d come home and he’d have dinner ready. and we’d sit down and talk about _nothing at all_ unless we wanted to!!! A hearty grunt, an appreciative nod would be all the communication necessary. Ahh… bliss. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/28 "2004-05-21T04:21:01Z")
WANTED: GOOD WOMAN Must be able to clean, cook, sew, dig worms and clean fish. Must have boat and motor. PLEASE SEND PICTURE OF BOAT. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/29 "2004-05-21T14:50:43Z")
Which 3, **Johnny**? Because if it’s the lesser ones that aren’t met, well… (Now I have to cruise over to CS to find the other thread!) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/30 "2004-05-22T00:08:28Z")
**scout1222** : Well, I’m not big on housecleaning. I do do laundry, but I’m not very enthusiastic about it. But I like to cook, and that’s not on your list. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132/31 "2004-05-22T15:39:03Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Everything would be on track schedule wise because gay men are usually well organized. They’re like like human Palm Pilots! > > And if he wanted to say something he’d say it, no beating around the bush and playing that favorite female game of “Telepathic Avenger” AKA “Guess what I’m thinking, cause I sure as hell not going to come right out and tell you, and god forbid if you guess wrong” _giggles madly on both counts_ Oh, honey, you are _so_ in for a surprise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanted-good-wife/246132.md?page=1)