The Fascinating Womanhood Marriage Rating Chart

By Mrs. Helen Andelin

© This chart and entire page is copyright protected and is copied here with the permission of current (2011) Fascinating Womanhood Executive Director Brian Andelin.

Extremely Happy: My marriage is all I ever dreamed it would be. My husband cherishes me and would do anything to make me happy. He treats me like a queen. He is protective and devoted to me. He tells me he loves me often.

Very Happy: My husband loves me and we have a good relationship. We do have certain problems but I understand this is normal. He treats me with kindness and respect and is thoughtful. He tells me he loves me often.

Happy: I have a good, solid marriage that I feel will endure. We have some problems between us and frequently friction but I feel he essentially loves me, although he doesn’t often express it. There is a strong bond between us.

Mediocre: Although we have no serious, threatening problems, our marriage is rather dull and uninteresting. My husband is critical of me, negligent, and takes me for granted. He doesn’t do things for me or take me places. He usually shows little or no interest in making our marriage better.

Unhappy: I am disappointed in my marriage. My husband doesn’t understand me and is harsh and critical. He spends most of his spare time away from home. He is usually cold and indifferent. (Not necessarily in sex.) He keeps his thoughts to himself, seldom tells me he loves me and doesn’t do anything for me he doesn’t have to.

Very Unhappy: My husband is cold and indifferent towards me and acts like he doesn’t like me or respect me. He is often harsh and critical. He never does thoughtful things for me, or appears to care about his home life or the children.

Desperately Unhappy: My husband has told me he doesn’t love me anymore and doesn’t enjoy being around me or the children. He doesn’t have an interest in our marriage or making improvements in it and acts like marriage is something to be endured rather than enjoyed.

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        If your marriage has reached the stage of “desperately unhappy,” you may not want it to work any longer. You may want out. In this case there is little Fascinating Womanhood can do for you. But, if you still love him and respect him, if you still want your marriage to work, it can, by following the principles taught in FW.

        Please remember, no matter where your marriage falls on this rating chart, you can reach the top by applying the principles of Fascinating Womanhood. This has been proven by the thousands of women who have applied them, experienced glorious success, and then written their personal testimonies such as those found in the FW book and this web site.

        Now, let’s go a step further: As the years go by, when you and your husband have gone through the difficulties and challenges of life, so common to us all, if you will hold fast to the principles of Fascinating Womanhood your marriage will become refined and purified until it becomes far greater than the top of this rating chart.

        When a marriage has withstood the tests of time and circumstance there is a divinity about it. The deep feelings between the man and the woman are difficult to describe. When I consider this I think of the bible scripture: Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor entered into the heart of man the things that God has prepared for them that serve him. And so it is with marriage. It is difficult to describe the holy, time earned feelings between them. Love in early marriage is precious but the tests of time ennoble it. I believe that the true love between a man and a woman is the closest thing to the love of God there is.

 *Note by Mrs. Wayne Hunter (authoress of this Fascinating Womanhood ~ Alaska blog/website): The latest edition (2007) of the best-selling book Fascinating Womanhood by Mrs. Helen Andelin is available at many local bookstores and online through amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.