The retro housewife

What does the Retro housewife day look like? Well, we get up, get our kids off to school, pack our hubbies a sandwich and wish them a safe drive. Then our day is OPEN? Some of us watch Oprah or the Soaps, some have a regular routine, for housewives with children our lives revolve around them and their activities, some paint do charity work...or maybe we run a home based business.

Some Retros have money, and for them running the house is comparable to running a small company, managing the staff, scheduling the projects, projecting an image of perfection to the outside world.

The best Retros understand that their purpose is to make life worth living for themselves and their families. That, no matter their income level or social status, they are the center of their families universe and the one who has the difficult task of making the most out of whatever resources are available to them.

In keeping a house, the job is to make it a home. In raising children, it is to turn out well balanced emotionally stable human beings that have the confidence and personal convictions they will need to make their way productively and happily in life. In being a wife, our job is one of support, confidante, companion, lover and best friend.

No small order, but in the end, we are the ones that make the difference in the lives of the other members of our families. Whoever coined the term "little woman" had not the slightest idea of what he spoke, for it is truly "the hand that rocks the cradle" that is an accurate depiction of our role.

We get many emails from housewives who identify with our general opinions on things, and stories about their lives and daily activities. In this section, we are highlighting the things we found in common amongst the hundreds of letters we get.

Are you a perfectionist?

We live in an imperfect world, yet we are constantly given the message that everything should be perfect: our homes, our garden, our children and ourselves.

According to scientists, this obsession with perfection is one of the main causes of stress and depression nowadays – nobody ever thinks they are good enough.

But is doings things perfectly a positive thing? Some experts are not so sure.

I would like to write in my post about one example of “perfection”.
It would be about a perfect housewife.

So, she keeps her house in perfect order, thinks about everything her partner might want and makes an enormous effort to keep herself fit and fashionable.

She is always busy and is admired by everyone who knows her.

But, according to specialists in stress, the reality is that her partner is probably wishing he lived with somebody who was more relaxed and would let him put their feet up on the sofa in the evening.