[gore_sux_2000]

Your post was 100% right on! I think sometimes we women expect a boyfriend or husband to fulfill all our needs and they can't do that, they aren't perfect. There is only One who can. And isn't it wonderful that the Scriptures give us the instructions we need......women are to respect and have reverence for their husband and men are to love their wives.

[Quix]

There's another issue that I think is also very potent in all this.

Women are foolish to depend on HUBBY to meet ALL their emotional needs.

Women need each other. Historically, women met in groups routinely; quilting groups etc. . . . an extensive network of support for one another.

Now they are too busy competing with men in the work place and have little energy left for themselves, much less for a lover, much less for in bed with a lover.

They certainly have nothing left to cultivate a support group of women.

But even a perfect husband is INCAPABLE of meeting all the emotional needs of a woman. Men have to work hard at learning to communicate feelings and vulnerabilities well--as well as love, affection, attentiveness, thoughtfulness etc. At their best, they will still only be one person and always from the perspective of a man. Women in their makeup need more than that for feeling understood, affirmed as a woman by other women etc.

The only solution I see is that they need to cultivate 3-4 friendships within which they can feel understood and supported from a female reference group standpoint.