Dennis Prager Show - Do You Know This Secret To A Long & Good Marriage?
Aired: 2024-03-01
Duration: 03:40


=== Why "Yes, Dear" Is Harmful (03:40) ===

[00:00:00]  It's the male-female hour.
[00:00:01]  Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
[00:00:03]  Most honest talk I know of in the American media about men and women.
[00:00:09]  So I have an interesting topic.
[00:00:11]  If it weren't interesting, it wouldn't be a topic.
[00:00:14]  Therefore, to a certain extent, interesting topic is redundant.
[00:00:19]  I have a topic that will make you think.
[00:00:27]  Very often when Couples married for, let's say, two decades or more, are asked, so what's the secret to your long marriage?
[00:00:43]  By the way, it's sort of an incorrect question.
[00:00:51]  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.
[00:01:00]  Long and happy marriage.
[00:01:03]  A long marriage, the secret to a long marriage is not getting divorced.
[00:01:09]  So that doesn't answer anything.
[00:01:13]  The question is, if you have an essentially happy marriage, what is your secret?
[00:01:22]  So one of the most common, I would say the most common answer that I have heard from men...
[00:01:29]  I don't recall what answer women give.
[00:01:32]  It's an interesting one.
[00:01:34]  Interesting question unto itself.
[00:01:36]  But the most common answer that you hear from men is, well, I learned to say yes, dear.
[00:01:47]  So, allow me in my usual heretical way to argue that yes dear is not the route to a happy marriage.
[00:02:00]  It might be the route to a long marriage, but it is not the route necessarily to a happy marriage.
[00:02:10]  So here's what I want to bounce off you.
[00:02:12]  I don't think that most women want a husband who always says, yes, dear.
[00:02:21]  1-8 Prager 776 877-243-7776.
[00:02:29]  So do you agree or not with that thesis of mine?
[00:02:36]  That it sounds cute, it sounds nice, it sounds like women go, yeah, that's the man I want.
[00:02:46]  Man who always says, yes, dear.
[00:02:48]  But I don't believe that.
[00:02:52]  I don't believe that that's what most women want in a man.
[00:02:58]  I think they want one who will say yes dear when appropriate and no dear when it's appropriate.
[00:03:12]  What do you think?
[00:03:16]  877-243-7776 1-8 Prager 776. Maybe I'm wrong, by the way.
[00:03:26]  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.
[00:03:36]  We do not discriminate on the basis of sex.