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Article: How I became a surrendered wife `People react in different ways when I tell them. A number of male friends are intrigued, while women laugh or despair'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2001
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IT STARTED with a smile, this experiment. In April an irritating
new book by another American who presumed to tell us how to lead
perfectly perfect lives was published in the UK. The Surrendered
Wife, by Laura Doyle, blazed a trail of controversy like a firework,
frizzling and frazzling and then dying away.
The book claims to be a step-by-step guide to finding peace with a
man, essentially by giving him more control. You do this by making
yourself pleasing in every way you can, never reading his mind or
baiting or provoking him, letting him solve your problems, never
showing him you are better than he is at doing things - essentially a
sweet wee wifie like those stereotyped images from the ...