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with their wives, found them not a better half of themselves but often a separate and demanding individual. After talking to a number of European wives I realized that a man wants to be the center of his wife’s universe. He wants her emotional interest focused on him, and in so far as a career diverts it, he feels forlorn and cheated. If a wife’s mind is totally absorbed in her career she is no longer a wife first. “All the same, as an American I believe a career is a wonderful thing. Only, as has been said before, you can’t take it in your arms on lonely nights. I know. I tried. No marriage can be successful unless a wife devotes herself to her husband. You come first, darling. By pleasing you, I please myself. Of course, I won’t throw away my career. I know you wouldn’t want me to. I’ve worked too hard for it. But instead of taking every role offered me, I’m going to pick and choose. This will leave me with free time between films.” . Recently Arlene was offered two film roles. She asked me if she should accept them and I told her to decide herself. She made her decision: “I’ve turned them both down because it meant being away on location. I don’t want to leave you.” Arlene has also streamlined her outside business activities to a regular routine that’s hardly noticeable. Four times a year she designs and sketches new ideas for her lingerie business, ships them to the manufacturer in New York who takes it from there, selling them in over 100 shops. On her syndicated beauty column which, I’m proud to say, is now carried in over fifty newspapers, she works at home with an assistant. Besides being so lovely to look at, Arlene has a very practical and wellorganized way of working — which makes it easy for her to deftly juggle several careers successfully. On some points we need more work, naturally. As I said, I’m a creature of moods and not the easiest person to live with, but I hope I’m making steady improvement. Arlene is the least frustrated person I know. She hasn’t even a tiny neurosis. She is quiet, hardly ever lets her temper show. But she has one! Annoyances must pile up and pile up, but when she gets angry, then she lets fly. Like a business matter this morning. She discovered that a business contact had been procrastinating as well as telling untruths. Finally — boom, she let him have it. My bride likes the contrast of our temperaments— one cool, quiet, collected, thoughtful, practical, weighing each decision carefully — the other high-tempered, volatile, loquacious. Before we married if I were feeling moody and difficult, Arlene immediately would blame herself and try to find out what she had done to upset me. This only made me more vexed, because generally I didn’t know what had brought on my moody spell. But now, in the emotional security of marriage, Arlene is beginning to understand that she’s not to blame. 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