On November 12, the "Madam College" that is the first in China to teach women how to manage marriage and emotional courses opened. Guarding against the "other woman" became a teaching item in madam courses, including free open courses and offline paid course tutoring. The paid course was priced at RMB 100,000 yuan. Currently, most participants in the free courses were unmarried white-collar women, while most of the paid teaching were women with family assets worth more than RMB 10 million.
Under the social trend of "men will go bad once they have money," the class that can be called "madam" generally encountered an emotional crisis, which was more like psychological spiritual self-doubt. Thus, "fire prevention, theft prevention, and other woman prevention" almost became the entirety of family life. Under such circumstances, the birth of the "Madam College" could be said to be taking advantage of the situation, but it might as well be seen as the madams' lack of self-confidence under their self-doubt. First manifested was the lack of self-confidence. The Madam College teaches madams to guard against the other woman.
According to reports, the training of the Madam College was different from the overseas madam colleges that taught life skills such as cooking and flower arrangement. It started with teaching personal emotional cognitive patterns. Within two weeks, the madam students would respectively play various roles of family members in daily family life, to learn how to better take care of the feelings of each family member and how to deal with various problems encountered in family life, including the hotly discussed topic in society - guarding against the "other woman."
Apparently, the focus of the "Madam College" training was not on how to improve the personal charm and quality of the madams to enhance individual attractiveness in marriage, but on how to handle relationships among family members, summarized as how to be a good wife, mother, and daughter-in-law, perhaps following the "pleasing" route. Could such training help those people regain their confidence as madams?
In fact, the crisis for madams was more about the impact of social issues on family marriage. When public social management could not effectively regulate these issues, interventions such as training could at most be symptomatic treatment with limited effects, akin to "medicine."
For madams to deal with potential marital emotional crises, the fundamental solution should still be to enhance individual independence in marriage and family, reduce dependence on their husbands and their wealth, increase personal emotional charm and self-confidence, know how to give care while maintaining self-love, and use self-respect to win the trust of all family members.