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Why "Yes, Dear" Is Harmful
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| It's the male-female hour. | |
| Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager. | |
| Most honest talk I know of in the American media about men and women. | |
| So I have an interesting topic. | |
| If it weren't interesting, it wouldn't be a topic. | |
| Therefore, to a certain extent, interesting topic is redundant. | |
| I have a topic that will make you think. | |
| Very often when Couples married for, let's say, two decades or more, are asked, so what's the secret to your long marriage? | |
| By the way, it's sort of an incorrect question. | |
| People should be asked, if they're going to be asked anything, they should be asked about the secrets to their long and good marriage. | |
| Long and happy marriage. | |
| A long marriage, the secret to a long marriage is not getting divorced. | |
| So that doesn't answer anything. | |
| The question is, if you have an essentially happy marriage, what is your secret? | |
| So one of the most common, I would say the most common answer that I have heard from men... | |
| I don't recall what answer women give. | |
| It's an interesting one. | |
| Interesting question unto itself. | |
| But the most common answer that you hear from men is, well, I learned to say yes, dear. | |
| So, allow me in my usual heretical way to argue that yes dear is not the route to a happy marriage. | |
| It might be the route to a long marriage, but it is not the route necessarily to a happy marriage. | |
| So here's what I want to bounce off you. | |
| I don't think that most women want a husband who always says, yes, dear. | |
| 1-8 Prager 776 877-243-7776. | |
| So do you agree or not with that thesis of mine? | |
| That it sounds cute, it sounds nice, it sounds like women go, yeah, that's the man I want. | |
| Man who always says, yes, dear. | |
| But I don't believe that. | |
| I don't believe that that's what most women want in a man. | |
| I think they want one who will say yes dear when appropriate and no dear when it's appropriate. | |
| What do you think? | |
| 877-243-7776 1-8 Prager 776. Maybe I'm wrong, by the way. | |
| I would be very obviously interested to hear from women in this matter, but if you're a man, we will not reject your phone call on that basis alone. | |
| We do not discriminate on the basis of sex. | |