Listen to Abe: Don’t Marry a Weak Man

Let me just say that I love the television show, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”

The sets! The Costumes! The jokes! The characters! The Music!! The actors!! All Top Notch.

Even more, I love the premise of the show: What happens when the perfect life you’ve created from yourself comes crashing down. What then?

What if you had the chance to do something that you really loved but it meant starting over? To top it off, What if you’re a housewife in the 1950’s doing all of this?!

Right?

One of my favorite characters on the show is Abe Weismann who is the father of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

With insights such as, “To be truly effective you must be ugly!” Who wouldn’t love the guy that is brilliantly played by Tony Shalhoub.

In one of the first episodes, he gave relationship advice to Midge (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) that made me sit up and rewind so I could hear it again.

If you haven’t seen the show yet, then I won’t spoil it for you but here’s what he tells Midge after reality sets in about her marriage.

Abe Weissman: The other important thing I told you.

Midge Maisel: Don’t pick a weak man. This isn’t my fault.