August 30, 2005

THAT'LL GET HIM OFF MY BACK FOR AWHILE:

It's a Jerk!: Should men want to watch their wives give birth? (Meghan O'Rourke, Aug. 29, 2005, Slate)

A man who doesn't want to watch his wife give birth is a jerk. This was the overwhelming consensus reached by a host of respected blogs after the publication last Tuesday in the New York Times of a piece by a therapist noting an unhappy trend: A number of his male patients have reported that after witnessing their wives have babies they no longer feel attracted to them. "I mean, how are you supposed to go from seeing that to wanting to be with ...?" one husband asked, unable to finish his sentence.

Why do you think they make us stay?

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 30, 2005 12:00 AM
Comments

LOL

Posted by: ed at August 30, 2005 12:17 PM

No, men shouldn't witness the birth of their children. The notion that he should has been be fobbed off on unsuspecting "metrosexuals" only in recent history.

Posted by: wyck at August 30, 2005 10:03 PM

It was better in my faters day. When I was born he took my mother to the hospital and went home and played gin with his family while they waited.

I on the other hand had to sit through the whole miserable experience. I did however, refuse to go to the other side of the table and watch the messy part. I staid by my wife's head and held her hand.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 31, 2005 2:04 PM
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