Things had not been going well. For several months the loving couple had been fighting regularly, growing more distant and failing to communicate. Both Rob and Krista were still very in love and were willing to do anything to reverse this course and return to the way things were. As far as either of them knew, they could not fathom why the increase in fighting had begun, but knew neither could last much longer like this.
It was after one of these fights about who should be responsible for doing the dishes that night, when Rob received the email. It was vague in its overall description, but promised a solution for couples that were having difficulties. It listed out exactly what was going on with Rob and Krista. “Fighting over trivial things? Arguing about who should cook dinner? Take out the trash? Click below for more information!!!’ Checking that the link was not some spyware or malware that would get downloaded onto his machine, Rob clicked the link. The next screen was a website describing the perfect housewife. Cooking, cleaning, obeying her husband and loving every second of it. All the photos showed young women dressed in pretty dresses smiling at the camera. Staring at it a moment longer, Rob turned off his computer and headed to bed giving the website not a second thought.
A week went by, and the fighting continued, each day, a little worse. Always repetitive, spiraling ever onward. Rob found himself occasionally returning to that website… The perfect Housewife… It was after one extremely bad fight, where she had accused him of never lifting a finger around the house that he finally clicked on the “Get Started” button.
“Enter your spouse’s email:”
Rob hesitated only a moment before entering her email and pressing the submit button. ‘Thank you’, flashed across the screen and then a new screen appeared stating: ‘Ensure your spouse opens the email, and we will take care of the rest. Enjoy!’ Rob stared at the screen for a moment and could not believe how much of an idiot he was. This was some scam, it had to be. It was meant to get him to enter her email so that she would find out he was interested in her being a perfect housewife. Oh well… he had gotten good at fighting with her… what was one more thing to fight about. He turned off his computer and headed to bed.