Walter Isaacson’s new bio of Einstein indicates Albert put this statement into a document to his wife, along with the statement: “You will stop talking to me if I request it.”
Any other brilliant advice for a happy marriage, Einstein?
Yeah I read about this, instead of getting a divorce they set up this agreement, and it was basically him telling his wife what she could and couldn’t do. There was a bunch of other stuff too but I don’t remember my source.
What’s the whole story? Did he want a divorce but she didn’t? So he spelled out his terms. Take it or leave it. Is this what happened?
I’m not going to try to look it up. Billy can post the second half of the story if he chooses (but it might make the thread less sensational).
Bottom line: if Einstein is deep in thought: SHUT UP! I don’t care who you are. This makes sense to me.
I thought Einstein was deep under ground.
So I tracked down my source and came up with this:
After Einstein and Mileva married, they had two sons: Hans Albert and Eduard. Einstein’s academic successes and world travel, however, came at a price - he became estranged from his wife. For a while, the couple tried to work out their problems - Einstein even proposed a strange “contract” for living together with Mileva:
The relationship progressed. Einstein became estranged from his wife. The biography reprints a chilling letter from Einstein to his wife, a proposed "contract" in which they could continue to live together under certain conditions. Indeed that was the heading: "Conditions."
A. You will make sure
1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.
B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons…
There’s more, including "you will stop talking to me if I request it." She accepted the conditions. He later wrote to her again to make sure she grasped that this was going to be all-business in the future, and that the "personal aspects must be reduced to a tiny remnant." And he vowed, "In return, I assure you of proper comportment on my part, such as I would exercise to any woman as a stranger." (Source)
Rest of the story here: http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/10-strange-facts-about-einstein/
thats keepin your woman in check.
did it have " make me a sandwich in it too?
Einstein = S&M.
LOL nicely done jerrick
I read a biography about einstein, his wife was only there to provide meals and clothing so that he could spend more time ‘working’ and less time on housework.
Smart guy
Einstein also was known for walking about campus at Princeton with mis-matched socks and trousers that did not fit. He had a bad odor about him, too.
I guess his wife wasn’t that stupid afterall. I hope she was off playing bridge and having fun at the ladies rotary.
He did need to keep his affairs in order after all.
He also agreed to give her the money from his Nobel prize, and lived up to the agreement.
Golly, nothing like that could ever happen today, seeing how much more enlightened we are than those morally bankrupt folks of a century ago.
It’s so much fun (and oh so smugly self-satisifying) to project our contemporary values on people who had the “misfortune” to live in earlier generations. And when they fail to measure up to our enlightened moral code, well, then we can shake our heads sadly but wisely and wonder that such people ever even existed.
“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” L.P. Hartlley
I read that on their honeymoon, Einstein took his wife to watch metal rust. It was in a newspaper commemorating his birth/death/something, so I guess that’s fairly reliable.
Tho it doesn’t need to be said, when it came to women, he was no Einstein. 
Wow who knew he was a pimp… Ballin’!
If you think the past is a foreign country, you should see the FUTURE!