The bottom line with Debi Pearl’s book is that all problems are the wife’s fault. That message is loud and clear throughout the book. Go read some of the 100+ negative reviews on the Amazon page. Debi misuses Bible scriptures to try and back up her beliefs. Some of her advice was okay, but I remember feeling so depressed while reading it and my common sense told me that something was wrong.
The Bible view of women and their role is never going to be popular and I can’t imagine that the majority of readers who populate the Amazon message boards would find very much to like about the book.
The Pearls do teach things that would make them very unpopular in modern times, like that the women should be the keeper at home, that the women should render due benevolence to her husband, that the man is the head of the home.
I didn’t agree with everything the book said, but I can’t find fault with it where it agreed with the Bible.
why not just skip the kid and whip the wife, good grief. you get a Christian lady who has a psychotic Moose hubby, the lady is supposed to just welcome the angry nut back home with joy? at the least she should welcome him to leave her life. i think she should move to a state where she can pack a gun.
Oh don’t even get me started on Created to be his Helpmeet. The Pearls are sick, messed up people. But I think she’s the more messed up one.
The bottom line with Debi Pearl’s book is that all problems are the wife’s fault.
It only comes acrossed that way because it’s written to women. The Pearls definately put the bulk of responsibility on the husband. They just don’t let the women completely off the hook like some others do.
“The bottom line with Debi Pearl’s book is that all problems are the wife’s fault. That message is loud and clear throughout the book.”
To be fair there is a new book out, “Created to Need a Help Meet,” and the excerpts I have read are tough on the men, too.
I may be sounding like a Pearl apologist, I am not, although I have sympathy with some of their conclusions. I do believe they are vilified way beyond reason.