Comments on: L-ewwel il-mami, it-tieni jien, it-tielet it-tfal (ghax jigu mil-mami) u l-ahhar il-mara

By: David Buttigieg

David Buttigieg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:49:19 +0000

“Nigella Lawson is MUCH better looking than Jessica Alba. She’s beautiful in the classic sense of the word, whereas Alba is merely pretty and won’t age well at all.”

Check out these sites – rather eye opening

http://style.uk.msn.com/fashionandbeauty/celebritychic/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=9259216

http://www.anvari.org/cols/Stars_without_Make_Up.html

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:17:17 +0000

Well we should not be surprised. This is the country where unmarried men (and women too for that matter)continue to live with the parents well past their 30s because they are too attached to mummy to leave the nest!

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:38:24 +0000

“This would constitute an invalid marriage” spot on Anthony !

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:35:16 +0000

The Oedipus Complex manifests itself in little children. A married man who still shows signs of this complex, which is not impossible, should never have married in the first place. This would constitute an invalid marriage. I feel that in the vast majority of cases the problem lies with the husband’s mother.

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:30:01 +0000

@ Daphne : Most probably you are right , but I found also Aedipus .

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:18:17 +0000

Why isn’t Aedipus Complex being mentioned in this case?
Ha nghida bil-Malti “ghadu ma’ nfatamx minn m’ommu …….. mid-dehra”

[Daphne – It’s Oedipus.]

By: Stanley J A Clews

Stanley J A Clews — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:34:30 +0000

In my time have know it to be the other way round where the wife decides that Mummy comes first. Mummy looks after the children whilst the wife goes to play tennis, goes back to mummy to collect the kids and forgets to leave any food in the fridge when daddy comes home from work.Perhaps those were the old days when the wife didnt work. I hope so.
As for divorce, as a widower for the past 25 years (now aged 85) I think it should be introduced. However I think couples should take into consideration if they have young children. The process should be made difficult for it to be obtained so that couples will have time to think and think again.
There were times in my 39=year marriage when I felt like walking out – and my late wife probably wanted to do the same when I was being a real sh..! But in the end it worked out

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:35:47 +0000

@ Corinne Vella.

You are perfectly right. In fact I emphasised that I tried to help usually in vain. There is no harm in trying. With all due respect to all mothers my personal opinion is that the root of the evil is simply that many mothers resent anyone who competes with them for their children’s attention. It is pure egoism. An exaggerated maternal instinct possibly. Thankfully the vast majority of mothers I know are faultless in this respect.

By: Darren Azzopardi

Darren Azzopardi — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:14:59 +0000

Not to condone the violence of the husband, but not helping to take your mother in-law to hospital is somewhat base. It goes beyond the petty power struggles between the wife and the mother and, let’s be fair, everybody would be irked in such a situation. Obviously, few people would actually resort to violence in such an instance.However, just because a person is married doesn’t mean that something as basic as taking your own mother to hospital makes you a mammone.

This doesn’t mean that there aren’t mothers who do suffocate marriages, and yes do take pleasure in seeing their daughter in-law as not being “good enough for their son”, even if she’s a nobel-prize winning doctor who cooks like Nigella Lawson and has the looks of Jessica Alba.

[Daphne – Nigella Lawson is MUCH better looking than Jessica Alba. She’s beautiful in the classic sense of the word, whereas Alba is merely pretty and won’t age well at all. But apart from that, if this woman refused to take her mother-in-law to hospital, then you can rest assured that there was a very good reason for it. Women don’t dislike their mothers-in-law on a whim; there’s usually ample justification. And quite frankly, he should have taken his own damned mother to hospital, or does he see this kind of thing as women’s work?]

By: worker

worker — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:46:26 +0000

@ Corinne Vella “Anthony: How would you sort it all out?” I’ll tell you how I would sort it out – I’d suggest to the wives that since the husband prefers mummy to them, he can bloody well go back to mummy. Maybe since there is no divorce they can file for an annulment. The reason being that the husband is still mummy’s boy and not man enough.