While this was highly amusing at times, some parts rubbed me the wrong way. Sort of like the fake-racist comedy of Sarah Silverman. Smart people will "get it" - that under the crass facade is a more deeply internalized ability to emphathize with one's spouse. (Of course nagging doesn't work - how would you like to be nagged!?)
But less perceptive people will laugh at the crass parts and think the author is actually suggesting that spouses should be thought of as an animal to be trained. One of the reasons the tricks worked so well on Scott is because he'd be a equivalent to an animal that already starts off really good. In workshops of how to deal with serious problem children in the classroom, one of the very last last resorts was a cruel type of conditioning that the speaker said was used for poorly behaved animals.
Parts of the article rubbed me the wrong way, too, but the overall thing I took away from it was that the wife was looking at her own behavior to see what she was doing that was escalating the situation (nagging, getting overly involved in the search for keys, getting upset when hubby was in the way,etc.). She modified her own behaviors, which had an overall beneficial effect on the entire situation.
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But less perceptive people will laugh at the crass parts and think the author is actually suggesting that spouses should be thought of as an animal to be trained. One of the reasons the tricks worked so well on Scott is because he'd be a equivalent to an animal that already starts off really good. In workshops of how to deal with serious problem children in the classroom, one of the very last last resorts was a cruel type of conditioning that the speaker said was used for poorly behaved animals.
Anyway, thanks for sharing.
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