{"id":1330,"date":"2011-02-17T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/spousal-irritation-checklists-for-marital-bliss-ca-1930\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T00:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T00:17:00","slug":"spousal-irritation-checklists-for-marital-bliss-ca-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/spousal-irritation-checklists-for-marital-bliss-ca-1930\/","title":{"rendered":"Spousal irritation checklists for marital bliss, ca. 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/s3Keui9b1qo\/spousal-irritation-c.html\">Spousal irritation checklists for marital bliss, ca. 1930<\/a>: &#8220;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/maritalratingscale_husband.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>These old data-collection checklists were used as part of a 1930s project to enable husbands and wives to give one another constructive feedback and end seething resentments by identifying and tabulating frequent  sources of irritation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/>In the 1930s, [Scientific Marriage Foundation founder George Crane] went around to a bunch of husbands and said, &#8216;Hey husband, what does your wife do that annoys you?&#8217; And then he added all those complaints up and created a handy chart that let you rate your spouse against the generic ideal\/anti-ideal. 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