Утро Полины

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Советы, которые пережили Страну Советов.
Эта долгая жизнь...

"Имеется в виду популярная колонка советов, которую на протяжении многих лет (1956–2000) вела Полина Фридман Филлипс (1918–2013) под псевдонимом Эбигейл Ван Бурен. Письма читателей начинались с обращения «Дорогая Эбби». Колонку Филлипс печатали тысячи газет в США и других странах."

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calling him "loveboat"

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Like her sister, Phillips was considered "the embodiment of female orthodoxy." They made their husbands and families a high priority in their lives, feeling that "marriage must be permanent, even when disturbed by masculine lunacy." Phillips typically spoke in glowing terms about her husband in public, calling him "loveboat" or smooching with him in restaurants. This attitude carried over into their columns in the late 1950s, with Phillips considering women who were unable to make their marriages work as "faintly ridiculous." Her "code of conduct" was "husband and children first."[5] In her later years, she did not avoid suggesting divorce when a relationship became "intolerable", and considered how a bad marriage might affect children: "When kids see parents fighting, or even sniping at each other, I think it is terribly damaging.