You won't be needing THESE I see...
Posted on 02/07/2005 6:36:10 PM PST by mason-dixon
After reading the posting http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338106/posts, I am motivated to provide my first post – a vanity which asks “Are there Freepers who are man enough for a strong, independent, self-supporting woman?
The 150-plus responses I read appear to be mostly from Troglodytes or not-yet-grown party-boys, or momma’s spoiled brats who want a wife to continue to take care of their needs and enable their current, adolescent lifestyle. Too many posts are extolling the benefits of wives who are suitably subservient – from third-world nations. What about President Regan’s assertion that marriage is a process by which men are civilized though the virtues of women?
Where are the men (not adolescents) who aspired to be gentlemen, suitable to bear the burden of democracy? President Washington had a set of precepts of gentlemanly behavior. And when he resigned his commission as head of the Continental Army, a position of potentially absolute power, King George III exclaimed that Washington was a stronger, more honorable man than he could have been. Read the letters between President Regan and Mrs. Regan. Are there Freepers who can love and respect and treasure their wives as he did – rather than expect marriage to cater to their own needs?
Marriage is to be a partnership of equals – each respecting the strengths, weaknesses, and needs of the other. Men, keep in mind Edith Gault Wilson! When you are immobilized, as President Wilson was with a stroke, will your wife respect you or is that the time that you can no longer control and dominate her?
Marriage is one relationship which must meet the needs of two people. This results in compromises when some needs aren’t met. [And I speak from more than 25 years experience.] The compromises are made as an investment in the future, the children raised within the marriage to be strong, independent, and self-supporting. Marriage is an investment in America’s Future – always have that as your guidepost!
I have two 20-something daughters – strong, independent, and self-supporting. I need to know if there are men who are man enough to be their husbands – and my sons-in-law.
Let me cite one more president, Harry Truman. He lived in the White House with his wife, daughter, his mother, and his mother-in-law. And he was man enough to end World War II by honorably choosing to use the Atomic Bomb. And he faced down all the generals of the War Department and all the admirals of the Navy Department to form the Department of Defense. What a man! Do we have that quality of man in our day?
(Disappointed comic book superhero Smiley.)
Very well said. Seriously, though, the passive-aggressive crowd has been out in full force today.
It is, isn't it?
You should put it on your profile page.
:)
-good times, G.J.P.(Jr.)
I take it you didn't like what he/she/it said? LOL
Wow, now there is a woman who can take out the trash and make some beautiful green babies.
WAAAH! FReepers are mocking my puerile vanity thread, WAAH!
Where do these idiotic newbies come from? Sheeeeeeeeesh!
ok, but you have got to get me some better shoes then those that she is wearing.
Ugly does not even begin to cover it.
You're right, she's not the most fashionable green super-heroine around, is she?
:)
You won't be needing THESE I see...
Hi sweetums...where did you get the picture of all of us RBKA gals? :-)
It is a failing that I find puzzling.
My happily married,strong,intelligent,beautiful daughter found someone special,who doesn't brow beat her.
With a mother like you,maybe the problem your daughters are having,finding suitable mates,is not that there aren't good single men out there. Just a thought,newbie.
Next time,use the lady in the suit and better shoes, :-)
The Incredible Hulk:
GRRRRR!!!! Hulk mad at color commentary of Hulk's accoutrements.
Yeah. It says "I put on my sisters jeans by mistake!"
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