![]() ![]() Sadly, the deepest yearning of husbands goes unmet because wives - and the card publishers - are locked into relaying sentiments of love. When women buy greeting cards for their husbands, they want to express love for them they don’t even think about respect. I’ll illustrate that from the greeting card industry (p. I still believe that women want love far more than respect and men want respect far more than love. Of course, husbands need respect, but aren’t wives also made in God’s image and thus deserving of respect, too? 319)Ī man needs to feel honored for who he is - the image and glory of God - because God made him that way. My theory says that the wife has a tendency to react in ways that feel disrespectful to the husband - thus the command to respect - and the husband has a tendency to react in ways that feel unloving to the wife - thus the command to love. ![]() So what exactly is backfiring on these people? The Main Focusįirst let’s look at the main focus of this book. Dr. ![]() I feel I deserve it - but his rage….makes me want to get away and hide. What I learned from you because he uses it against me each time. Then he quotes from a letter where a wife actually “regrets” telling her husband: Eggerichs admits that his advice isn’t working for many people that he receives tons of letters from frustrated people who have tried his advice in their marriage only to watch it backfire on them. ![]() Here is Avid Reader’s one-star review of Emerson Eggerichs’ book “Love and Respect.” You can click here to vote it as ‘helpful’ on Amazon. ![]()
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