Originally Posted by
MissFixit 
I think the world was a very different place back then. Before women's rights and equal opportunities. Marriage was a woman's job/financial means/identity/purpose/social acceptance. I was born after ERA stuff, so I do not know what it was like for those women, but it sounds horrible. Marriage as duty and all that. Yuck.
But do you all understand that is was Lois who actually had the real job and paid the real bills? The house they finally wound up with was a pity gift from someone else.
I think she wanted to maintain her marriage and he was very dominant over her. Not to mention the "charm" that many A's have.
Yeah.
That A "charm" thing I hear of from time-to-time.
My A must have been missing class that day or something.