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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996 03:34:15 -0700, Dauven Family <jamesed@spnt.com>
wrote:

>Glenna Rose wrote:
>> 
>> In article <54f5fg$3bm@argentina.earthlink.net>, dtl@erd.ix.com wrote:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> >:women had a shorter life expectancy than men.  Serious
>> >:research into history will reveal
>> >
>> >Notice the tense; will. Apparently, Glenna hasn't even done the research yet,
>> Glenna
>   Having two advantages that the rest of you do not, (I think)  I lived
>the rural americanna life, we didn't get indoor plumbing untill we go
>electricty )to run the pump untill the mid 50's and I didn't see a
>television set untill 1959.  Also my S.O. (whatever that means) is a
>genolgist (studies familie trees) and two things stick out in my mind.
>   Yes men out lived two or three wives but the last one out lived him
>by many years usually 30.  Most of the marriages produced a child every
>2nd year.  If you miss a two year there is an odds on bet that there is
>a dead child there some where.  Yes women died in child birth but they
>also
>buried every third child before the age of 15.
>   What is most amazing about life then is how happy most of the women
>were most of the time.  I have read countless exerpts from letters that
>they sent to one another.  Yes life was hard for them, but they truly 
>loved their husbands (well most of the time any way) and most of the
>husbands loved their wives.
>   Infact where I grew up in rural Idaho I will say that most of the
>farm wives were happier than most of the women I see posting on the
>boards. 

Life was so much simpler then...


>The just didn't seem to have the chip on their sholders that modern
>women have.  I guess they didn't have time to know how bad off they
>were.  All I know as a little boy of 7, my fondest memories are of my
>grandmother 
>feeding me real hones to gosh home made bread fresh from a wood burning
>oven, with real butter (was in a cow 2 days earlier) and reading to me
>the complete works of W.SHAKESPEAR.   She went to a private girsl school
>in Tenn. and was educated when most men weren't.  Hell she even cussed 
>in Latin.  My grandmother and grandfather were married for over 60
>years.

Simpler also means that options were limited, as compared to today,
but one the other hand because of this there was tendency to try
harder?
>
>Maybe the reason why women and men to are so unhappy these days is that
>they spend so much time getting into these endless fights that really
>don't mean anything that they fail in the larger goal of good human
>relationships.
>jim
>
unhappy men and women stats. shoud be separated between the married
(or simular circumstances, commitment that is) and the unhappy who at
our age (say 28-38) still have yet to finalize this part of our lives.
> 
>> BTW, if you are really interested in pursuing this, just e-mail me or at least
>>  cut all the groups except your own off the header and forward the post to me.
>>  Most of the groups care nothing about this whole thread.
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