So apparently there are ways to be a good wife and a good Christian.....and this lady has it down pat. She made a list for us, and I thought you would like to know exactly how it is done.
http://bloggingpoints.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-to-be-good-christian-wife.html :
For one thing, never use frozen orange juice, because only whores use frozen orange juice.
A fat husband is a faithful husband, but you should always leave the table a little hungry so that you maintain your girlish figure.
If he isn't happy with what food you made him, don't get upset, but get up quickly and make him something different until he is happy.
Your entire day needs to be spent on cooking and cleaning because you are not a filthy pig.
Don't sit with him at breakfast, do NOT do this because you scraping your chair and such will distract him from his paper. And don't try to talk to him in the morning either, because your trivial matters aren't as important as his.
Never try to ask him what is going on with his private life if he wants to spend the night out doing stuff, because he has a right to his own private life. While he is gone do his laundry for him and clean up for him.
So I paraphrased for her, but can you believe this lady??? And people actually responded to her and THANKED her for this ridiculous list!! I really hope she was totally kidding.......I cannot believe this....and she tries to say that this is how the Savior would want you to behave as a good wife. GAG me. I sure hope it was a joke. lol.
3 comments:
actually Shayna, I'm going to disagree with a little here. I think this blogger has gone to an extreme point - yes those "tips" are a little outrageous. But as a society we have sung so far to the opposite side that this is refreshing to see. We live an "all hail women" society. Women are mean, cruel, witchy, disrespectful, etc towards men. It's a woman eat man world out there. And it's sad that women feel so entitled they think they shouldn't have to do anything to get a man or keep their man. (on a case by case scenario this isn't accurate, but on a whole it is, even in Happy Valley). I love the book "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" seriously every woman, married or not should read it. It gives such great insight into what a man's basic needs are and also how their basic desire (even single men) is to win the love and appreciation of a woman.
Anyways, I'm not saying I'll make Craig a new meal if he hates what I cook - but I am saying we should be just as outraged about the idea that women shouldn't have to cook for their man. Or that they shouldn't have to keep a clean house. Or that the idea is the woman is the "smart, sassy" one and the husband is "funny, dumb" one. This is much more prevalent than the idea of cooking two meals to please a man. For the most part he's working his brains out to provide for his family, it's the least a wife can do to make some meals and show a little love.
Anyways, like I said I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'm not wholly agreeing with you either. You hit on a great topic for discussion :D Thanks for sharing!!
HAhahah I love the orange juice one..
yes, shara, i do agree with you on that. good point. i think what i was upset about was the spirit behind it, in that she claims that as good Christians, we, as daughters of God, should be in obeisance to our husbands, when in reality, we both should be equally yoked--working together to create a home of joy, and it really does take both people or else resentment builds. I wholeheartedly agree that our society has swung the pendulum far-way to far-the other way because of the whole women's movement (which was both positive and negative on various planes) whereas women and men are forgetting that they both have separate and important roles to fill, and that one gender is no better than the other, but that they are meant to complement each other. I don't think that Heavenly Father would want either party to feel walked on, because we are each so vitally important. :) We really do need men in our lives, and they offer so very much. And vice versa. I love the role guys play :)!
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