http://nogreaterjoy.org/articles/a-good-pair-of-glasses/ Over 500 articles from Michael and Debi Pearl on Child Training, Homeschooling, Family, Marriage, Christianity, the Bible, Missions, Simple Living, Gardening, and other topics! Wed, 16 May 2012 15:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nogreaterjoy.org/articles/a-good-pair-of-glasses/#comment-1967 bashir gemayel Sun, 31 Jul 2011 12:53:43 +0000 http://new.nogreaterjoy.org/?p=979#comment-1967 great we can talk about our feelings! great we can talk about our feelings!

]]> http://nogreaterjoy.org/articles/a-good-pair-of-glasses/#comment-1966 Jackie Leyba Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:21:02 +0000 http://new.nogreaterjoy.org/?p=979#comment-1966 I don't think this has anything to do with pitting gender against gender. There are men that are sensitive, and there are women that think the way men do sometimes. It's all in how they work together with their spouses. My husband is a sensitive person, but he has resolve of steel when he believes in something. He's also the rational thinker. I'm like most women, react with feelings. I NEED my husband to be the rational one, and make me realize that there is another solution. I don’t think this has anything to do with pitting gender against gender. There are men that are sensitive, and there are women that think the way men do sometimes. It’s all in how they work together with their spouses. My husband is a sensitive person, but he has resolve of steel when he believes in something. He’s also the rational thinker. I’m like most women, react with feelings. I NEED my husband to be the rational one, and make me realize that there is another solution.

]]> http://nogreaterjoy.org/articles/a-good-pair-of-glasses/#comment-1965 Megan Richmond Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:10:51 +0000 http://new.nogreaterjoy.org/?p=979#comment-1965 In response to Grey Haven: I do believe you are having an emotional response right now. Women, myself included, have a tendency to let our hurt feelings and "pure" convictions interfere with our duty as a help meet to our husbands. We use our "feelings" as a way to manipulate our men into doing what we want them to do. It is not a stereotype from one generation. Women are acting that way today because they saw momma act like that, who saw her momma act like that, and so forth and so on. The Pearls are not trying to degrade women. On the contrary, they are trying to save us from ourself. From your response, I would conclude that you try to hold your husband under your thumb. It must not be working well. You probably think he is self-centered and insensitive. Judging by your attitude, I would say you might very well be the cause of it. Maybe instead of babbling about women being stereotyped you should get on your knees and pray that God opens the eyes of those women so they will see the damage they are doing to their marriage and children. I am fighting this "hurt feeling" thing myself. The devil is really trying to do a number on me. Please pray for me that I don't become a weepy, unsatisfied wife. In response to Grey Haven:
I do believe you are having an emotional response right now. Women, myself included, have a tendency to let our hurt feelings and “pure” convictions interfere with our duty as a help meet to our husbands. We use our “feelings” as a way to manipulate our men into doing what we want them to do. It is not a stereotype from one generation. Women are acting that way today because they saw momma act like that, who saw her momma act like that, and so forth and so on. The Pearls are not trying to degrade women. On the contrary, they are trying to save us from ourself. From your response, I would conclude that you try to hold your husband under your thumb. It must not be working well. You probably think he is self-centered and insensitive. Judging by your attitude, I would say you might very well be the cause of it. Maybe instead of babbling about women being stereotyped you should get on your knees and pray that God opens the eyes of those women so they will see the damage they are doing to their marriage and children. I am fighting this “hurt feeling” thing myself. The devil is really trying to do a number on me. Please pray for me that I don’t become a weepy, unsatisfied wife.

]]> http://nogreaterjoy.org/articles/a-good-pair-of-glasses/#comment-1964 Grey Haven Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:05:50 +0000 http://new.nogreaterjoy.org/?p=979#comment-1964 I agree that a lot of men now days are coming out feminized, but I think you are making huge generalizations as far as the genders go. I know a great many men who aren't purely logical and a great many women that don't think with their emotions. To make all women out as weepy non-practical sops, and all men to be unfeeling, meat-eating drill sergeants is a stereotype from your generation. Both males and females have both logic and emotion, and to imply it is somehow unwomanly to think logically and unmanly to show emotion is an idea I think is most certainly false. We need more sensitive men in the world, and much fewer self-centered ones. I wholeheartedly agree that emotion can and does hinder justice at times, but I don't believe it is a gender issue, as you are making it out to be. I agree that a lot of men now days are coming out feminized, but I think you are making huge generalizations as far as the genders go. I know a great many men who aren’t purely logical and a great many women that don’t think with their emotions. To make all women out as weepy non-practical sops, and all men to be unfeeling, meat-eating drill sergeants is a stereotype from your generation. Both males and females have both logic and emotion, and to imply it is somehow unwomanly to think logically and unmanly to show emotion is an idea I think is most certainly false. We need more sensitive men in the world, and much fewer self-centered ones. I wholeheartedly agree that emotion can and does hinder justice at times, but I don’t believe it is a gender issue, as you are making it out to be.

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