The Discreet Charm of the plumber
This morning my wife showed me a promotional blurb on the magazine of the supermarket, where he was promoting a service of "husbands for rent." Quote the ad said: " a service that offers help to all the families and wives who can not count on her husband for committees and house chores. You have to renew the letters of the car? Mow the garden? Accompany children to the game? Do not worry if your partner is overwhelmed by work or prefer to play soccer with friends: her husband rent solve all your problems ... a good opportunity for the wives and even husbands! "
not discuss the merits of the service, which is certainly a worthy legittimissima and commercial initiative, but the value of "symbolic", the "unspoken" which seems to me to express.
The short article is aimed at women in fact tired of the fact that " can not count on your husband for house chores " why " prefer to play soccer with friends ! The items are stones and do not think of adding me if I say that seems to feel (though not written) that "even" for odd jobs. And the proof is that the proposed solution is " rent a husband." Not a "pet rent", a "factotum", but "a husband."
According to the blurb, in essence, these women are not only tired of having to do everything themselves, but are tired of not having a husband by side, one that devolved to this company's services is not only the provision of additional time and skills to the need for home, but also and perhaps especially the compensation of a void, a loneliness. It is not the time of her husband's missing is the his presence, his support, his reliability. He played football!
Sure there are men of this kind. I remember that even in the seminaries of Arkeon you mentioned the football team as a tool type used by some men to escape the intimacy and the responsibility of the couple relationship and at the same time to defend themselves from intimacy with the men through a relationship that most adult goliardic . Two birds with one stone. But in
seminars Arkeon the finger was put on the wound to show and why people would take responsibility to heal, to make a leap forward in intimacy, starting from the shared sense of absence and distance to reach everyone to choose to "return to self": that man not only his wife was missing, but also to himself. And the same was true in other cases from the inverse for his wife.
But here the wife has resigned and choose - bea (or) treatment happy - to solve all the rent with her husband. And the opportunity, the paragraph makes clear, it is also good for their husbands, so they can continue to play soccer or be overwhelmed by work. Basically you pay to go on living happy and (s) happy.
It makes me think hard about that article a couple of years ago that appeared in the Republic, according to which the statistics of a classic American university showed that couples who live far last longer!
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