happy wife, happy life

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happy wife, happy life

  1. if you keep your wife happy, you will avoid trouble. [1900s]
    • 2014 September 22, Rebecca Adams, “Study Finds That 'Happy Wife, Happy Life' Is Pretty Dead On”, in Huffington Post‎[1]:
      There's all sorts of antiquated marriage advice out there, but it turns out that there's one relationship trope that actually holds true: "Happy wife, happy life."
    • 2018 February 10, Rick Fortier, “Exposing the Myth of ‘Happy Wife Happy Life’”, in The Good Men Project‎[2]:
      In a “Happy Wife Happy Life” relationship, men suffer in silence and women believe everything is okay as long as they’re getting what they want.

References[edit]

  • Doyle, Charles Clay (2012) The dictionary of modern proverbs, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 275
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