p. 13 | Talk It Over With Your Wife

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 8, 1906

Talk It Over With Your Wife

THERE are thousands of families homeless, or living in poverty and wretchedness to-day, who could have been living in comfort, in good homes, if the husbands had confided their business affairs to their wives.

Women are very much better judges of human nature than men. They can detect rascality, deception, and insincerity more quickly.

I know business men who would never think of employing a manager or superintendent, or a man for any other important position, or of choosing a partner, without managing in some way to have their wives meet the man and get a chance to estimate him.

I have known of several instances where a wife had cautioned her husband against having anything to do with a man with whom he was thinking of going into business, but the husband ignored the wife’s opinion as silly, and disregarded her advice to his great sorrow later, as the man turned out exactly as the wife had predicted.

If you are in doubt as to whether you can quite afford a certain thing or not, talk it over with your wife. How many men who have made a failure of life wish they had talked their affairs over with their wives!

Many men think that because their wives have never had any experience in business it would be foolish for them to talk business matters over with them. But, no matter how much experience you may have had, no matter what a great brain you may have, you need the swiftness and the accuracy of woman’s instinct to keep you from making foolish investments, from making alliances with bad men, and from foolish things generally.—Success.