Your husband doesn’t have to earn your respect

themattwalshblog ^ | 22 FEB 2014 | Matt Walsh

[fulltlt]

Comments posted are interesting too.

[sr4402]

The Lord commands husbands to "love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her". This they need to do in daily prayer asking for their daily bread to do so.

Similarly "the wife must respect her husband" is the command to wives.

My advice to women like this is for them so show respect for the office of husband even if they can't find respect in her heart. And to go to the Lord in prayer and ask for the respect he needs, just as the husband needs to ask for the love she needs.

This is a great posting. Very seldom have I seen love and respect mentioned with regards to husbands and wives. It is badly needed and Thank You!

[jurroppi1]

Thanks for posting this, I enjoyed reading it!

[MulberryDraw]

Women want love. Men want respect. That old song, “All You Need is Love” is hogwash.

[sauropod]

I agree with most of this.

Men also need respect in the workplace. If bosses want productive employees, they need to respect them.

[B212]

well done.....I was at a large dinner party....maybe 6 couples....it was a talkative lot, the general tone of the conversation was energetic....when out of left-field, came a comment by a women, regarding their marriage...”the only reason XYZ, doesn't divorce me is because he can't afford to” No respect for her husband, or for the rest of us at the table...

[ScottinVA]

I agree.. popular culture carries the narrative that men — especially husbands — are bumbling, useless clods with no manners, skills or worth.

And many young women wonder why men in their age group aren’t interested in marriage...

[Vigilanteman]

These cultural messages aren’t harmful because they hurt my manly feelings; they’re harmful because of what they do to young girls. Society tells our daughters that men are boorish dolts who need to be herded like goats and lectured like school boys.

Ironic when you consider which gender is more likely to be herded and lectured by the sewer pipe of popular culture.

[melsec]

Proverbs 25:24 “It’s better to live in a corner on the roof than in a house with a contentious woman”. Funnily enough I was mentioning to my wife the other day how many comments women either make or put up on facebook that, if done by a man, would be considered sexist. Not that I care because what they have to say doesn’t bother me but dare bring it up and see what you get!

[McBuff]

Women will never respect a whiny man-baby. . .

[Lucky9teen]

Amen. As someone who just went through “a wall” with her own husband, I can attest that what you are saying couldn’t be more true.

[fulltlt]

"I agree with most of this.

Men also need respect in the workplace. If bosses want productive employees, they need to respect them."

You're right about that.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I know a couple like this. The wife is constantly telling everyone what is wrong with her husband. At dinner, she will start saying things like “what is wrong with you? why are you being so moody?” when to other people at the dinner, the husband isn't doing anything wrong. Its as if she has to believe that something is wrong with him so that she feels good about herself. They really should not be together. The irony is that for all her talk about all her husband's “problems,” everyone sees that she's the one with the problem. She wants people to think of her as some martyr for having to “put up with” her husband, but people really see what a total b__tch she is. Its a sick relationship when a wife is constantly picking at her husband in the same way its a sick relationship when a husband is constantly picking on and psychologically abusing his wife.

[Cato in PA]

There’s a lot of truth in that article. I enjoyed reading it.

It certainly doesn’t help that we’ve raised a generation of timid, emasculated men who wouldn’t even think of standing up to the clipped-haired, mean-faced feminists who walk all over them.

[Hoodat]

The man should have already earned your respect BEFORE you got married. Duh.

[VanDeKoik]

Women dont respect a non-whiny one either.

When you have the entire court and governmental structure set up to be a replacement husband, with all of the power to render a man destitute at her whim, and you have 200 years of stupid dudes, playing the roll of the “white knight” that have treated women as victims and “little darlings” so they can feel like some manly protector, then what do people expect from today’s culture?

And let’s not even get into how feminism, gay culture, and now the omnipresent danger of women lodging fake rape charges have made an environment where lots of men are rightfully afraid.

[Hoodat]

That old song, “All You Need is Love” is hogwash.

When it comes to songs from the '60s, I notice that for any song, you can take the word 'love' and replace it with the word 'drugs', and it will still make sense.

[ZOOKER]

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[b9]

When we married 38 years ago, we agreed not to “point and laugh.”

Respect, and a healthy sense of humor, work wonders.

He also promised to love me through all my “changes.” He had no idea what he was in for!

What a gift he is.