Oprah Wants You to Have Your Own Featherbottom

On Oprah’s website  she offers offers some strange advice on how to help keep your marriage together:

“Invent an imaginary British houseguest. All of us have much more control over our behavior than we like to think. For instance, if you had a very proper, prestigious British guest at your home, sleeping in the bedroom adjacent to yours, you’d act differently during arguments. You’d behave more kindly and politely to your spouse when, say, he sold your mother’s hideous-but-beloved vase during a garage sale—if only because you didn’t want to feel deeply ashamed. So the next time you consider screaming, imagine poor Rupert lying in the guest room, overhearing your every word.”

Does Oprah want you to invent your own Mrs. Featherbottom from Arrested Development?

If you’re at the point where you have to imagine fake British people living in the house, maybe it wasn’t meant to be. Shouldn’t the kids in the next room be inspiration enough? But hey, it worked great for Tobias and Lindsay.