My neighbor never calls his wife \u201cmy wife\u201d he always refers to her as \u201cmy sweetheart.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s always struck me as funny and a little old-fashioned, as well as sweet and awfully endearing.\u00a0 \u201cMy Sweetheart.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
They were married almost 50 years ago when women were not equal to men, and wives were seen as necessary nags, or so he tells me.\u00a0 He returned from their honeymoon, flush with new love, to the derisive and smutty comments of his co-workers.\u00a0 This was his wife, his everything.\u00a0 To them she was the ball and chain, the old bag.\u00a0 The very word \u201cwife\u201d seemed to call up such negative connotations in the minds of the men around him.\u00a0 He stopped using it.<\/p>\n
To strangers, he refers to her only as Mrs. (their last name).\u00a0 He commands the respect for her that he knows she deserves but society so often denies her.\u00a0 His address of her speaks of his great admiration for the woman he married so long ago.\u00a0 Those who know them well are gifted with the right to call her by name, to the rest of the world, she is his sweetheart.\u00a0 With one word, he announces his love and affection and places her beyond the ever changing stereotypes.\u00a0 She is above it all, the woman of his dreams, the smile on his face, the hand he holds, the partner of his lifetime.\u00a0 She is his only love, his sweetheart.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My neighbor never calls his wife \u201cmy wife\u201d he always refers to her as \u201cmy sweetheart.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s always struck me as funny and a little old-fashioned, as well as sweet and awfully endearing.\u00a0 \u201cMy Sweetheart.\u201d\u00a0 They were married almost 50 years ago when women were not equal to men, and wives were seen as necessary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n