My buddies wife said to him, You don’t have the balls to have an affair. He moved out and started laying pipe. She bitched to everyone about him. The kids bitched about him to everyone. There was no shortage. Some years later she begged him to return. Nope. She promised she had changed and would honor him. After two years, my advice was give her a chance. If she started the crap again, grab your clean underwear and leave. He went back. She has changed. She does not ridicule him. Neither do his daughters. When couples hear that type of bashing while visiting with others, the proper thing to do is go start the car, and let your wife know the evening has ended. For good with those kind of friends.
I thought this was s story abut “male enhancement”. Never mind.....
Comes down to one thing, submission to your husband which represents submission to God. I know I am a control freak, and would have not only told Adam to try the apple but also how to get it from the tree, how to hold it, peel it, bite it, chew it, and swallow it.
Knowing your weaknesses is not talked about, but in life, a good human has to know their limitations because when they are weak, then they are strong in the Lord, eh?
Are you a woman who wants to poach another woman’s husband? Try telling him this: If you were my husband I would never let you do the laundry.....
Married since 1973 and he has NEVER helped with ANY of the laundry, or dishes! or bathroom cleaning, etc. Even when I worked full time, then later we had three young kids, I did all the housework, cooking, cleaning...
But I am a happy retired homemaker!
...the feminist habit of assaulting men with derisive remarks must produce a hostile cultural environment.
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So very true for all of the reasons cited.
Also, this assault on men and maleness has really undermined the sense of self that boys have. Over the course of my teaching career, I saw an entirely different type of boy emerge, a boy greatly diminished by the constant “Girls can do anything” garbage.
Betty Friedan was well-known for her violent temper.
It’s become accepted behavior for women to hold up their husbands as objects of ridicule. I don’t do it, and I won’t listen to other women do it.
I don’t work outside the home any longer. In view of that, I’m not going to ask my husband to unload the dishwasher or vacuum the floor, just as he isn’t going to invite me to go help him do his job. We have our roles, and they’re complimentary.
Am I going to throw a fit if he leaves socks on the floor? Well, he actually tends to put his clothes in the hamper where they belong, but if he fails to do so, or if he leaves the toilet seat up, etc., so what? I’m not going to jump all over him. He works HARD to support us, and he treats me pretty much like a queen. I’m blessed to have him and I want him to know it.
As for men who allow women to belittle them, whether publicly or privately-—STOP DOING THAT. Grow a spine and show them you’re not going to tolerate it any longer, or it will never stop.
With a little experience, talking to friends and some research, I have found that women who have been raised in a female dominant family are the worst offenders of disrespect to their husbands. As an example, my sons mother-in-law was the oldest of three sisters, she then became the mother of three daughters, one being my DIL. The drama and insanity in this family is unbelievable.
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There’s a lot right about this article. There have been studies with vast numbers of people to document what men and women generally thought was most important in a relationship. For women it was “love;” for men, “respect” was at the top of the list. This should not be surprising, if we listen to the Creator’s message:
Eph 5:25 “Husbands, LOVE your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her...33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must RESPECT her husband.”
These are not “if he/she earns it first” commands. These are what each sex needs from each other at a basic level. It’s not enough for a man to “feel” love without showing it, just as it’s not enough for a woman to “love” a man they way she wants him to love her. Without respect in her tone and actions, publicly and privately, she is denying his manhood.
People who are oblivious to these fundamental imperatives have marriages that are already heading for the rocks, even if they don’t know it yet. I speak from experience. After 30+ years of marriage, we’ve just about figured this much out.
This reminds me of an old 45 year old cartoon.
A man and woman walking down the street get held up by a thug with a gun. The man’s hands go into the air.
The wife slugs the crook with her purse very hard, and he drops his gun, and the man says..
“My God Ethel, Can’t I take you anywhere without you embarrassing me in public?”
Take a look at how many TV shows make the husband/Dad out to be a blooming idiot or a lazy dummy.. we have stopped watching so many shows because they do this.
Take a look at how many TV shows make the husband/Dad out to be a blooming idiot or a lazy dummy.. we have stopped watching so many shows because they do this.
I can’t tell you how many friendships I let go of for this very reason. All they did was live to make their husbands lives miserable. They were the types that refer to their husbands as their second or fourth child. I’m not like that and I couldn’t put up with all they said.. I don’t know how the husbands put up with them.