{"id":425197,"date":"2010-03-13T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a931f6d9970b"},"modified":"2010-03-13T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T16:44:23","slug":"are-happy-wives-a-silent-majority-share-your-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/425197","title":{"rendered":"Are happy wives a silent majority? Share your joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sandy\"<\/img><\/a><\/p>\n

I had lunch this week with Fawn Weaver, an Agoura Hills woman who aims to counteract negative images of marriage in popular culture by enlisting 1 million women in her Happy Wives Club<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

She’s convinced there’s a silent majority of wives like her "who love being married, adore their husbands and consider their union one of the greatest joys in life."\n<\/p>\n

In my column today<\/a>, I tell her story and share her tips for a happy marriage.\n<\/p>\n

But our conversation got me wondering: What actually makes for a happy wife?\n<\/p>\n

A study of 5,000 couples<\/a> by two University of Virginia researchers concluded that the single most important factor in women’s marital happiness is the level of their husbands’ emotional engagement.\n<\/p>\n

And the happiest wives were those who didn’t work outside the home or whose husbands brought in at least two-thirds of the family’s income, and those who share a strong commitment to lifelong marriage with their husbands.\n<\/p>\n

That sounds like Weaver and her husband. And it jibes with suggestions offered by wives on her website.\n<\/p>\n

The predominant view online was this: Make your husband feel respected and appreciated and he’ll respond with the "emotional engagement" you need.\n<\/p>\n

But how does that mesh with your reality? What makes a wife happy and a marriage satisfying? Is happiness a state of mind, or a day-to-day feeling?\n<\/p>\n

All you happy \u2013 and unhappy \u2013 husbands and wives out there, tell me what you think.\n<\/p>\n

— Sandy Banks\n<\/p>\n

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I had lunch this week with Fawn Weaver, an Agoura Hills woman who aims to counteract negative images of marriage in popular culture by enlisting 1 million women in her Happy Wives Club. She’s convinced there’s a silent majority of wives like her "who love being married, adore their husbands and consider their union one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}