Can [this] marriage be saved?

[lolaraincoat]

I forget which women's magazine of my childhood, back in the early 1970s, used to run a monthly column titled "Can This Marriage be Saved?" but I remember reading it while my mother did the grocery shopping, and I remember that the answer was always yes! it can be saved! with just a little more feminine self-abnegation! etc. Even as a cranky

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[elgoose]

I know I was thinking the same thing.

It was Ladies' Home Journal. Alas that I know this. The other thing that I remember about that magazine is that the ads in the back always included one for breast enhancing products of one sort or another (maybe a cream?) and some type of weight-loss-encouraging candy called Ayds.

My mind, the steel trap.

[lolaraincoat]

Oh, what a fabulous brain you have! Yes it was Ladies Hoe Journal! and I remember those ads!

Your memory wins!

[tiferet]

That's a great typo, Ladies' Hoe Journal.

I remember it too.

Oh yes. I know I was thinking what you were thinking, and while I have been married (3 times) I have never been married long. I bail when it starts to seriously suck.

[ellid]

Mark Eden Bust Developing Cream.

[mincot]

Arch, I remember those! And the teen magazines always had prominent Ayds ads, too--and then people wondered why women had body-image issues. *rolls eyes* I think I skimmed over the bust-developing cream.

Thank heavens that my mother went back to graduate school to get her doctorate and we didn't have any money for Products when I was a teenager. Saved me a world of "Do I conform?" grief--Ic ouldn't afford to, so the hell with it, I was going to the library.

[amelia_eve]

Those teen magazines always advertised the Fashion Institute of Technology, too. I was astonished when I moved to New York and discovered that it is quite a legitimate college and part of the SUNY system.

[elgoose]

oh my god oh my god, Mark Eden Bust Developing Cream! That's it! Your memory wins!