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Do we think affluent men expect something different from their wives?

Ted Bauer
5 min readAug 5, 2022

This is a tough one to figure out and I doubt there’s much good research on it — and any research that did exist would probably be funneled through many half-truths — but I think we can try to play with some themes here.

So, by way of introduction, for a while I was pretty involved with this group called F3 Nation. I probably will get back up with it in a bit. I was doing my local newsletter for a while, where it seemed like 8 guys in every 10 liked it, and two of 10 didn’t. I did some stuff wrong in the process of doing this newsletter, without question. I messed up a bunch. But whenever someone would come to me with negative “feedback,” I’d ask for specifics, and they couldn’t usually give me any. A lot of times I’d hear the vague/generic of “you mention our wives.” I actually never mentioned a wife by name minus two times, and would usually do stuff like this:

Ideally on a Parker-Tarrant Hero combo I’d put Mardi with Felix, not Bradshaw, but fate aligns in weird ways. I don’t even have a lot to say here. Just a good guy, can move distances, nice to speak with, I once name-dropped him in a meeting with Chancellor Boschini and we each simultaneously pretended we were friends with him, once offered me TCU basketball tickets that I couldn’t take, I see one of his good friends Pooh Bear at church all…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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