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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bringing personality type into the mix, she is supposed to be an ISTJ. She's trying to make logical choices.  she had love affairs along the way but i think she knew better than to try to make that into something serious. It was suppose to make sense that she held out and married a doctor. She didn't bank on him being abusive and nuts. Then from that position she did what she could to make something for herself. [/quote]

I’m surprised Joan didn’t figure out that the doctor was a loser…she is good at reading people generally. But then again she does make questionable romantic decisions: Roger and having his baby! [/quote]

Trudy also seems savvy and clever but is married to the turd that is Pete.  It does seem to imply the 60s ideal of domesticity was a false bill of goods.  Most of the married women end up miserable [/quote]

Indeed! It’s painful to see these beautiful and smart women married to lackluster men and trapped into the limited roles of wife and home maker.  There isn’t one positive romantic relationship portrayed on the show. Well I suppose Henry is a good husband to Betty. [/quote]

Oh, idk if this is true. The two other lower level marriages seem okay. Cos grove and Harry? Plus don’t forget Peggy and whatshisname! I don’t know if they get married of course. [/quote]

Peggy and Stan have barely started dating when the show ends. I would not assume they wind up together in the long run -- Peggy marries her work and they live happily ever after.

Ken's and Harry's wives are barely people on the show. Ken and Harry are also portrayed as initially decent guys who get chewed up by the industry they are in and become jerks. Ken spends several seasons as like the one standup guy on the show, only to get shipped off to Detroit to lose an eye and get hazed by the auto industry bros, give up his literary dreams, and become a vindictive ahole. Harry devolves into a Hollywood cliche who clearly cheats extensively on his wife while on the West coast. Does he wind up divorced? I don't even remember and they might not even say, he's a caricature by the time the show ends.[/quote]

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