I am not saying that women shouldn't make the same amount of money as men in the work force, I'm not saying that we shouldn't have a say in how our children are raised and how our house is run, and I'm not saying that every woman should stay at home and give up their careers. I am not saying that women are less and don't deserve respect, what I am saying is we can't expect to get it by belittling our men. We can't expect to have our men treating us with loving admiration, while we are tearing them down to every person we know. We can't expect our children to respect their fathers and his authority as head of house, when we don't. What I am saying is what are we teaching our children with this current trend?
How can we honestly expect our children to respect authority when the person God established to be the authority over the household is constantly disrespected on TV, in music, in movies, in books, and at home? How can we expect our children to respect us or their father when we talk down on him, yell at him, and call him names? How can we expect our sons to want to be married or have a true relationship with a woman when what they are seeing is a life full of ridicule from the one person who is supposed to support them! It's no wonder so many men are walking around looking like hurt dogs, and are too afraid to have a real relationship because they don't want to deal with the disrespect, and I know men who say this, men who have or are avoiding relationships because of this very thing.
And don't fool yourselves ladies, there is a huge difference between standing up for yourself and your feelings and disrespecting our husbands. It is of course necessary to tell our husbands when we are hurt or disagree with them, and there are always going to be those situations, but there is a time and place for it, and its not in front your children if you can't control yourself to speak respectfully about the situation. By speaking respectful, I mean a conversation without sarcasm, yelling, or name calling, because every time you behave like that towards your partner in front of the child you reinforce what the world is teaching about men, that they aren't worthy of respect.
Respect your husbands, respect your partner, and stop talking crap on him with your girlfriends. Our husbands aren't jokes, and news flash, you're not the boss, don't believe me check the last part of Genesis 3:16, 'he shall rule over you'! Want a happier husband? A happier household? And better behaved kids? Then maybe you need to check how your house is being run, against how God says it should be run, instead of making fun of your spouse and blaming him for everything that isn't working out.
1 Corinthians 11:3
3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:8-12
8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; 9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10 It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. 12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
Ephesians 5:21-33
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Proverbs 11:29 Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
Proverbs 15:27 A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.
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