Is it true that women in those days were unhappier?

Question

that they stay in marriage out of no choice, not coz they're actually happy with what they're doing?

did they view hard times in marriage as challenges to get over, or moments of biting their own tongue carrying all the pains till they die as how many woman todays have been thinking that's what has happened?

were they really oppressed, or protected?

is "marriage & family" must be something that's temporary, before the couple has to split up as to make way for the women, or something that supposedly makes people happy that both husband and wife want to keep it till death?

is family about separation?

Answer 1

I think that the idea that marriage was not usually for love until feminism came and "saved us all" is a crock. People have been marrying for love since the dawn of time. People have been having happy and successful marriages forever. Since feminism took over, marriage as an institution is failing. The divorce rate is skyrocketing, people aren't very committed, people don't take it seriously or come into it willing to compromise and sacrifice. I'd say the "old-fashioned people" who lived back in the day were doing something right.

If a couple both come into a marriage with the idea that this is a lifelong commitment, and are prepared to work on their relationship and put their spouse first, marriage will make them happy and it will last until death. But if the couple are both selfish and looking out for themselves first, it will fail because they're doing it wrong.

Answer 2

Family is c**p humans, need to be like jaguars I don't hear them killing their own sons like lions do. Marriage is even more c**p, women need to get brains and start thinking. YES women in those times were very unhappy, they were more oppressed, where do you think civil rights activists got their ideas from.

Answer 3

mad

Answer 4

Back then I think women were happier.. I was born in 65 my grandfather worked and my mother and grandmother took care of the house. It is now a days that women have become unhappy

Most of us who are older are looking for a man that works and brings home the bacon( Like our grandfathers) while we look after the house and children. Now a days there are no longer men out there like that..They have become lazy and complaisant...We are over stressed we cook, clean, taxi, work, pay the bills so yes we are unhappy more so than ever...

Answer 5

Women are less happy today than the mid 1970s when feminism began to grip Western culture:

“By most objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to male happiness”

http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/betseys/pap...

Answer 6

Well this is all dependent on your own view.  I personally view marriage as a lifetime commitment (with exception to abuse and infidelity)  rather than disposable like some high school relationship.

I don't think we can truly know of they were unhappier or not, but I have noticed that my husband and I (both from homes where our parents have 30+ years of marriage) appear happier and tend to have more optimistic views on life in general than close friends who's parents have separated...particularly if there were messy divorces.  Even my husband who's parents had several struggles has kept a wonderful attitude about life, especially marriage and family.

While women were using things such as alcohol and select drugs to remain "happy", I have to wonder if there were really more women doing those sorts of things than hoped up on Prozac, Zolofy, Paxil, Wellbutrin....just to name a few.

Answer 7

I believe they were happier. My reason to say this is because families were not broken; by that everyone lived in the same town, that's how I grew up, my grandparents, aunts and uncles cousins and all grew in the same town.  Now with all of these changes the nucleus of the family is now a thing of the past.  Couples no longer understand the idea of you want your marriage to work you have to work at it; no, they'd rather throw in the towel and get divorced right quick, of course, considering abuse that's another story. Besides; in those days when a couple was unhappy they did the natural thing when things didn't work out; parted.

Answer 8

If you ever get out of the USA, you'll find that almost universally, american women are viewed by men as the worst possible choice to marry.

Guys, take my advise--wanna be happy?? Marry a asian or latina lady.

AVOID AMERICAN WOMEN LIKE THE PLAGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cuz when they, their feminist lawyers & feminist judges get through with you, everything you ever were, are now or ever would have been will be gone. Your entire income will go to her for life.

You've been warned.

Answer 9

There is rather profound evidence that demonstrates that women are paradoxically more unhappy in the era of post-modern feminism.

Please see citation/hyperlink below for clarification.

Answer 10

Im not sure it matters any more, the family is more or less a dead duck, the majority are going to be single wage slaves.

You can bet that happiness levels are and will continue decreasing.

Most people are oblivious to what feminism is doing to our society.

Answer 11

The work was harder than women today who go to a job, then they are "off" and stop working. They had to make dinner from scratch because there were no fast food or Kentucky Chicken. The lights were off at night and they could see the moon real bright.  

Answer 12

I think there were some unhappy women back in the day, but a lot of women were happy.

Today it seems like no women are happy.  Stay at home moms are bored, working women are stressed and miss their kids, and single women are pissed at the lack of quality men.  

It's gotten worse.