Fascinating Womanhood

[gentle music] Hello everyone and welcome to the official Fascinating Womanhood podcast where we explore timeless principles for developing true femininity, inspiring authentic masculinity, and building strong, loving, and lasting relationships.

I'm Cherry Lynn and I'm here with my mom, Dixie Andelin-Forsyth.

Together we'll dive into the heart of what makes relationships thrive, offering practical wisdom and heartfelt conversations to help you live a more fulfilled and fascinating life.

I mean, this can even, this topic has even led to crimes.

Oh, I know.

And it's like we've said before in Fascinating Womanhood, for those of you who've been following us a while, that the, uh, strength of any country ... is no stronger than its homes.

Mm-hmm.

And than its families.

Absolutely.

You can kind of draw a connection between bestselling books written in the 1960s and 70s, like Mormon Helen Andelin's Fascinating Womanhood that promoted this view of femininity and particularly to Mormon women, but more broadly to conservative women, to Maribel Morgan's book, The Total Woman in the 1970s.

That book was the best-selling nonfiction book in the country in 1974, sold more than 10 million copies.

These are the books that helped shape this massive Christian publishing industry so that today, you know, you walk into a Christian bookstore, you pick up a book with pink flowers and Christian words on the cover.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the official Fascinating Womanhood podcast, where we explore timeless principles for developing true femininity, inspiring authentic masculinity, and building strong, loving, and lasting relationships.

I'm Cherry Lynn, and I'm here with my mom, Dixie Andelin Forsythe.

Together, we'll dive into the heart of what makes relationships thrive, offering practical wisdom and heartfelt conversations to help you live a more fulfilled and

And this was very much a counter-movement against feminism here, too.

Helen Andelin and Fascinating Womanhood published the same year as the Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's book.

What was her shtick?

So the Fascinating Womanhood is a book about how to be a good Christian woman, how to be a good wife generally.

And it is by being hyper feminine, by being silly, frilly and pleasing your man.

And gender difference was key here.

That's the source of a happy marriage.

Now, Helen Andelin was actually Mormon.

And this was very much a counter-movement against feminism here, too.

Helen Andelin and Fascinating Womanhood published the same year as the Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's book.

What was her shtick?

So the Fascinating Womanhood is a book about how to be a good Christian woman, how to be a good wife generally.

And it is by being hyper feminine, by being silly, frilly and pleasing your man.

And gender difference was key here.

That's the source of a happy marriage.

Now, Helen Andelin was actually Mormon.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the official Fascinating Womanhood podcast, where we explore timeless principles for developing true femininity, inspiring authentic masculinity, and building strong, loving, and lasting relationships.

I'm Cherry Lin, and I'm here with my mom, Dixie Andelin Forsythe.

Together, we'll dive into the heart of what makes relationships thrive, offering practical wisdom and heartfelt conversations to help you live a more fulfilled and fascinating life.

I think this episode is primarily talking to the ladies about the men cheating.

Maybe we could do a one where women cheat later, but this one is primarily for the ladies that are listening to us and they want advice about their men.

Before we get into the eight different situations, I know Fascinating Womanhood started because grandma was feeling like her marriage was maybe less than ideal.

It wasn't that her husband was cheating or anything like that.

It was more about kind of taking a mediocre marriage and making it really wonderful.