Several days ago, I posted a story on Facebook highlighting the inflated expectations many women have of men and marriage. The purpose was to show how simple most mens needs are when compared to womens. To drive the point home, I suggested women lower their standards. Until recently, this message would not have been met with so much as a raised eyebrow. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, this story, officially entitled The Husband store. has been told for some time as a joke of sorts. Ive known people to laugh about it but never to get mad. So I was somewhat surprised when a group of woke women (not my usual readers) discovered my post. It went semi-viral, garnering almost 1,000 (mostly angry) comments. Reading their responses, youd think I had suggested women marry any ole man off the street. Some made the leap that I said men shouldnt have to do housework (not sure of the connection there). Others said I told women not to have any standards at all. And still others were convinced Id said its okay for women to accept abuse from a man!
This is what the far-left culture has produced: a generation of women whose anger and resentment toward men and marriage precludes them from not only having a sense of humor but from acquiring any critical thinking skills. Theres no middle ground anymore, no place for cogent conversation. Its just hate.
With so many women conditioned to believe that women are irreproachable and men are toxic, the future of marriage and family is bleak. Some women will learn, down the road, that theyve been fed a mountain of lies. Those are the women I coach. They are in desperate need of a new relationship roadmap, one that works and that welcomes understanding the very real and very deep biological differences between the sexes. Others leave perfectly good husbands and glorify their decision, convinced men are nothing but Neanderthals. In truth, these women simply never learned how to love and to bring out the best in a man.
"Its true that modern men are doing more than they once did, but their efforts do not come close to evening the scales, writes Liz Lenz in It Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal. When they do chip in, they expect not just credit but lavish praise.