Actually, I don't like this commercial. I don't think it is helpful for relationships to even have a doghouse.
Sure, some men have been in the "doghouse" for something, meaning, sometimes, people who love each other upset each other. A helpful response would not to toss him in to the doghouse, because then, he's left feeling like, "huh?" not knowing why his partner is upset. A more helpful response would be to have a frank, open, honest conversation with your partner.
Frank conversations do a person good, man or woman. The concept of a doghouse just perpetuates a non-understanding and non-communication in relationships.
I don't think it's ok to toss your man in the doghouse like this. It's disrespectful to you, as a woman, and it's disrespectful to your man. It portrays the woman a petulant child who just gets mad and stomps off, and it reduces the man to a child who just should be punished when he does something that upsets you. Punishment, stomping off, and non communication does not generate the kind of relationship I would want.
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