We recently had a “Love and Respect” weekend at church. While I don’t feel I heard anything new, it was like a chef eating a meal that was prepared for him. He is familiar with all the ingredients and spices but is thrilled to have it all prepared in that way. Peter said, “Women RESPECT your husband, husband LOVE your wife.” Why the asymmetry? These are COMMANDS. One need not be commanded to do what is in one’s nature. We are both flawed but our flaws are our partner’s strength. Women love naturally, men respect naturally. Together we ARE perfect (or nearly so) and that is the lesson God wants us to learn.
Thank you for posting that. Never heard it put that way...just beautiful.
This is really, really good. Thank you.
I love to see the long lists of attributes women will come up with for what they want in a man. Because it gives me the opportunity of asking to see the long list of attributes of themselves that they offer TO the man, and ask what they want to GIVE him. The blank looks I get in response are almost as fun as the slow anger that replaces it in a moment or two.
What they don't realize is that if a perfect man existed, he would want a perfect woman - because he would want someone who has put in the effort to perfect themselves just as he has. Most women's utter lack of humility (these days) blocks them from realizing that the LAST person they would want to be with is a perfect man, because they could never keep up.
In fact, many relationships die because the women strike out at men who are more of what they know they should be, but fail at. They PICK the man for his superior attributes, and then ATTACK him because they can't live up to his standard - which they required of him in the first place. Then, because his excellence shames them, they blame him for "making" them feel "unloved" or "unsatisfied" in some way, rather than respecting his model and changing themselves.
That's why so many men are staying away from women - their following of feminist ideology has blocked them from the humility feedback mechanism human beings need to learn and improve themselves. Feminism declares that women can learn NOTHING about character from men, and so attacks any woman who tries to. But without that, they have to blame men for their own failings, and thereby destroy the relationships they actually want, in order to appease the tyranny of their Leftist Feminist Mistresses who run their "Groups" (secret or otherwise).
Throw in the added insanity of antidepressents millions of women take to deal with this self-sabotaging group network and American women are basket cases. And that's exactly what they must be, in order to NEED the women's groups they belong to, and obey their orders (especially who to vote for).
And THIS is how Hillary has destroyed more American women's lives than cancer, heart disease and car accidents - and she's still destroying them (what, you think she's not running? LOL!).