Aino Sutinen: Marriage counselling, part one (All cases are direct quotes from 1950’s marriage counselling training documents.) 1 Do you feel nervousness… relax… (medicine advert from the 1959 Kotiliesi housewives’ magazine) / ca. 45 to 50 year old Mrs. E. / 2 The wife explained that she can only think of living if her husband agrees to separate, otherwise she will / become mad. 3 She carried a document signed by neighbours in the corridor, proving that the spouses had argued with physical violence. 4. The wife also said that the husband had never showed affection. 4 The husband told that he is an ex-policeman and had only married because / that is customary after a long period of courting. 5 He proclaimed that the wife / would regulary lose her nerve. 6 The man was also nervous, shattering and crying.
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