of his head.

She puts up a brave front when in the

midst of a TV party and makes an honest effort to like the TV's who are her husband's friends. She admits that most of them are nice people, but she feels that it is a shame that they should waste their time in some- thing so unproductive and rather senseless as sitting around in frocks, makeup and wigs. After every TV party she is secretly hoping that her husband has gorged himself with enough dressing-up to last him for quite a while. She is terribly disappointed when the very next day he decides to doll up again. She puts up with his dressing but does not encourage it. She feels rather silly buying feminine things in big sizes for her "man". She tries to please him, she understands (finally! after much discussion) that this is the way he is and will probably to continue to be for the rest of his life, but down deep she does not like it. She wishes it weren't so. She wants to really like TVism but something with- in her prevents her from emotionally accepting such weird behaviour.

When this type of wife first found out she was shocked. She immediately thought that her husband was one of "those perverts" one reads about in the news- papers. It was a long uphill battle to convince her that this was not the case. But at times, when he really lets go and projects intense flashes of femininity the old worm of doubt faintly squirms in the innermost re- cesses of her mind. But she knows that it is useless to fight against his "obsession" and silently bears what she feels to be a cross. She is nervous every time he dresses and lives in constant fear that his secret will be discovered and thereby bring scandal and shame over herself and her family. She cringes at the thought of discovery by one of her own girlfriends and would have a nervous breakdown if "they" were to find out. All of this she suffers in silence, but since she loves the lovable lug she will not nag him and he blithely believes that "my wife goes along with my dressing very nicely". She most certainly does not!!! If some- one should invent a pill to "cure" TVism, she'd be the first to trick him into taking it as part of a new treat- ment for colds that her doctor recommended. The C- wife is, I believe, the most common type of wife we

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