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Show Family Weekly/ February 4, i968 Should Your Wife Go to Work? If handled in the right way, two breadwinners can provide personal as well By DR. JOYCE BROTHERS as material benefits, says this noted psychologist When a wife goes out and gets a fob, a husband may have many reasons for objecting. All too often, though, his real fears are hidden from both of them. FTER 15 YEARS of marriage, Marian thought she knew her husband. And the last word she would ever have used to describe him is “old-fashioned.” But she was in for a surprise. With the children away at school most of the day, Marian had begun to feel restless and at loose ends, Before Family Weekly, February 4, 1968 her i she'd had a ful fling at a career as an interior designer. Now she thought she'd like to go back to it. One evening after supper, she told her husband George what she was thinking. “No,” he answered flatly. “Your place is here at home.” Of course, George wasn't saying exactly what he meant. Neither was Harry, when his wife she get an office job to heln with the mortgage payments on a bigger house. “I don’t want you running around all day with those other men,”he told her. And neither was Mike, whose wife wanted to go to work until the family could climb out from under the debts incurred by their little girl’s recent leg operation. “The children will be ne- |