First, the author has an interesting story of her own, well worth reading. So here I offer an oblique discussion: A book! I love this book. No, it’s the spirited woman who struggles with the whole concept. Lately I’ve been realizing that the very women who most want to scrutinize the ins and outs of relationships in a marriage, equality, leadership, and all that - are the spirited women! So by definition we agonize over how to express precisely what we mean, without letting go of what we see as the main feature of our character, and indeed probably the very thing our husbands admired in us in the first place.Īfter all, a person who is compliant by temperament probably needs a dose of get-up-and-go, not an endless parsing of what submission really means, mutual or otherwise. The problem with the abstract approach is that a person brings her own context to the discussion. I prefer to go about the whole question either abstractly or obliquely. As some other bloggy friends have noted, it does seem like as soon as you make a pronouncement, that’s when you get into a fight with your husband! Not worth it! Whereas I have no three-year olds around to disasterize when I airily state a disciplinary principle. Sometimes I venture into the treacherous waters of marriage advice, but not often. File Under: Historical Fiction, True Love, Spirited Woman
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