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Using pseudonym A. Guy Maligned, I expose mysteries of why men and women have so much trouble living together as couples.

I dedicate this blog to females that groom and dress to be pretty instead of erotic, attractive instead of comfortable, and modest instead of convenient. Each one reminds how much more beautiful the world can be.

My generation has something that younger generations have lost. We consider the opposite sex separate, equal, and more highly respected than our own gender. Separate because sex differences do matter. Equal because equality is impossible, but we all deserve it according to the Christian God. And, more respected because we admire rather than envy the other gender’s uniqueness.

Married to Grace in our first and only marriage for each, we raised three boys but lost one to leukemia when he was 30.

It took awhile, but we learned new ways to make the days blissful for each other. Consequently, after 54 years we have a great, fun-filled life. She graciously and encouragingly smoothes out wrinkles in all that you read. Without her wonderful support, unwavering confidence, and extreme patience, this blog would be just a dream. 

My experience accumulated across more than a dozen professional sectors that included senior naval officer, major university professor, graduate college dean, and congressional chief of staff.

My email is planohelm@verizon.net.

 
 

75 Comments

  • Tina Martlage

    I love it!!!! I’m so glad that you and Grace have chosen to be my friends! You all are the best

  • I couldn’t find a single idea out of place, out of date, or out of touch with the male/female dynamic of today’s world: and I read 50+ entries.

    I can’t imagine the flack you must catch, now and again, from some women, for such clinical and largely undeniable observations. But then, I most definitely respect such a well-meaning effort directed at a largely oblivious and self-deceptive demographic.

    I applaud your work, enjoyed the read, and sincerely hope that your writing brings about a better world for all of us.

    ~ Driz

  • Fabulous! And I’ve only begun my read. Your lives together has obviously taught you how to love and cherish the opposite sex.

    I’m sorry for the loss of one of your sons, and as a woman, I thank you for raising them to be manly men in the right way!

  • I find many of the ideas in these entries rather stereotypical. They seem to reinforce artificial gender roles and strengthen the “gender binary” gap. I feel this can be harmful in many ways. I appreciate the fact that you are so passionate though, and I know your heart is in the right place.

    AGM responds: You’re near the top of my favorite viewers. Thanks.

    Feminists politicize history studies to advance the feminist agenda. Especially women studies.
    Watch for forthcoming posts entitled: From feminine mystique to feminist mistakes.
    Guy

  • The most recent post on Infatuation is absolutely prophetic!!..It is so undeniably accurate…and you have been given a true gift in your ability to articulate these truths…….. once you post them they become so blatantly obvious to your female readers…….please keep up this amazing work……your insights have become priceless to me………

  • Thanks for your writings. Very interesting.

    A great read for men too !!

    Signed: A Man

  • Fantastic blog! I applaud you for presenting your thoughts in such a professional manner. My ex-wife would tear you to pieces just for your honesty. Although presented in a more random fashion, my blog is similar to yours and she (my-ex) was the primary catalyst for writing it.

  • meenadirtqueena

    I only wish I’d found you prior to a disastrous string of “relationships.” Where have you been all my life??

    Your Highness,
    Where have I been? Trying to figure out how some women can think, act, and talk as they do in direct conflict with the natural self-interest of females. The next comment below exemplifies it.
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  • LOL, “what women never hear.” More like, “What women hear every fucking day from the patriarchy we live in, in various forms or another.”

    Yet another whiny-ass titty baby blaming women for his problems.

    When Girlhood provides sex easily, boys turned down take it personal. He must be lacking, since she yields to other boys. He’s indirectly told that he’s insignificant or worse. His self-esteem takes a temporary hit, but self-image takes a permanent hit: He can’t compete with other guys. Forced to face his shortcomings so dramatically causes bitterness and self-hatred that too easily leads to violence later if not sooner.

    IOW, women are public utilities who are somehow obliged to share their favors “equitably” with any douchebag who asks. Also with the Nice Guys(tm) who don’t ask, but hang around us pretending to be our “friends” simply because they want to get into our pants. And if we have the temerity to, you know, fuck whom we want to — that is, pretend we’re real human beings with agency, just like men — we’re asking to be bitch-slapped or raped!

    Charming. You ever consider why you can’t compete with other guys? I guess it’s easier to put up a blog pissing and moaning about how all women are conniving slutty bitches than to, you know, change your fucking personality.

    Loser.

    Your Highness,
    You say: “…we’re real human beings with agency, just like men…” Precisely correct! However….
    The more women duplicate men regarding sexual mores and practices, the more men see and treat them as guys—just guys-with-a-difference. Men win and women lose.
    Guy

  • Guy ,

    Could you please put the before and after links above the posts? I can’t find my commnts- and the contests page is too confusing- I prefer to read them in chronoligoical order

    thanks!

    Miss Dawn,
    I understand how you want to access, but I don’t understand what you want me to do. My technical guru will visit me in a few days, and I will refer it to him.
    Guy

  • Hi Guy,

    Before you changed the format of your posts- for example:

    On post # 261

    there would be a two links right above the posts title which could put you at either post #260 or #262

    A person could begin at post #1 and read consecutively to the last one!

    But now those links are gone and the make it around on your post is from the contents page- which has no dates- or the “Top POst or Recent Post” links, which only list about 6 or 7 at a time.

    I hope this explains it better- since I come here a lot and like to make refernces this would make it a lot easier!

    MD

    Miss Dawn,
    Got it. My guru will explore solutions soon.
    Guy

  • The links are back!!! Yayy! Thanks so much to you and your guru!!!

    MD

  • First, thank you so much for taking the time to put your thoughts and wisdom on this blog.

    It is embarassing to admit how ignorant I am re: men. I can’t believe I’ve gone my entire life knowing very little of this. So much makes sense now. As another commented, you explain the why behind the ‘rules’ making it much easier to both understand, implement and follow through. I’ve been reading and rereading every post to pound it into my head!

    The man who fell the deepest in love with me started out as a ‘casual’ affair. I don’t know what I did differently? What makes for the exceptions to the rules? Is it possible to turn a man from feeling casual and unattached toward you to a deeply committed relationship after you’ve already had sex or is what happened with me more of a fluke?

    Your Highness,

    Rules usually improve odds, but they’re not customized to always work. Just like yourself, when you don’t always win.

    Marriage is not finding the right person; it’s being the right person. If your relationship continues successfully, you may already be there. Or, you may not, and only your man knows for sure. His devotion says YES! His commitment says MAYBE!

    Women can learn how to, why to, and with whom to be Ms. Right and later Mrs. Right. Mr. Right doesn’t want a Mrs. Wrong. (Incidentally, Mrs. Wrong emerges first when she becomes someone other than the bride he married.)

    My blog presents truths about the male and female natures, ideas about modern customs and practices, and concepts about social and domestic pressures. Women in a learnable mode can craft their own solutions by exploiting their natural strengths and advantages to become the right person for the potential Mr. Right.

    Guy

  • Wishing you and Grace many more blissful years of married life – what a team! You are also both offering such a wonderful service to women with this blog.

    Bless!

    Your Highness Melina,
    And blessings on you and yours. Speaking of blissful, I don’t count the years. Grace does and her numbers are insignificant, as you shall see.
    In contrast, my numbers are significant. I count the blissful days and know how to make each blissful. We’ve been married 19,689 as of today. Significant, right?
    Guy

  • In regards to ‘b.g.’ and other feminists that I happen to encounter through my blog as well…. why do so many of them seem to have such foul mouths?? Have you noticed this? They all seem to love the ‘f word’ as well. And, why do they have to express themselves in such a nasty and embittered manner?

    Hmmm….

    Your Highness Melina,
    Right you are. They can’t do enough to imitate the gender they hate and mock the gender they are. Isn’t it ironic? Pitiful? Self-hatred?
    Guy

  • This blog is awesome and I am telling my girlfriends about it.

    I have been putting these principles into action for some time now (years) and I have more men chasing me than probably ever in my life – chastity and femininity really does pay. Yes I have been dumped for not putting out and it did hurt temporarily – I like how you put it though that I have actually won in that case. But God is good and for every man that did that God brought several to replace him. And funnily enough – sometimes those men that dumped me because I would not sleep with them re-appear – sometimes repeatedly.

    This blog really is ‘Salt’ and ‘Light’ – and dare I say it – I belive there is an annointing on it – God bless you and your family.

    Anita

    Your Highness Anita,
    Thank you. I love it when pretty girls tell me such things.
    Guy

  • Mrs. Pilgrim

    Guy, this is a fantastic site, and I’m enjoying reading it from post #1 forward. While your words reflect wisdom, they also have a youthful energy that made it a shock to discover how long you and Grace have walked together!

    I also feel very sorry for feminists such as “b.g.”, who are so wound up in their own preconceived notions about men that they take something out of context, see it in the worst imaginable light, and then attack. They have been taught no better; our society encourages the form of immature post-childhood tantrum-throwing that they call “emotional honesty”.

    Anger interferes with learning and listening, prevents problem-solving, basically makes us slaves. Modern feminism–I would argue ANY feminism, but that’s a whole ‘nother subject–is built on envy and its resultant anger; it prevents us from hearing the “other side” and resolving the “war between the sexes”, as “b.g.” very neatly demonstrated. Feminism, instead of liberating women, enslaves us!

    I know you’re a man and therefore don’t respond with discouragement to carping from angry people, but I still want to encourage you to keep writing and don’t let the Angro-Americans make you think you’re wasting your time! Thank you and your lady wife for this blog, and thank God for folks like you!

    Your Highness Mrs. Pilgrim,

    Thank you. I love it when pretty women say such things, especially cite new terms such as Angro-Americans. Wife Grace loved the part about ‘youthful energy’.

    Guy

  • Hello Guy!

    Hey where did the “Who owns who?” Post go???

    :(

    Miss Dawn

  • Hi Guy!

    Have you heard about the girl who is auctioning her virginity off on Ebay? Please please please.. Do a thread on this. I would love to hear your opinion on this issue. Also, there are so many hostile female responses to the issue that it proves that most women are clueless about what virginity means to men. What do you think? If yoiu haven theard of this just google it and check it out for yourself. I hear that the bid is up to 3.8 Million!

    I wish I has known my virginity was that valuablewhen I was 13~!

    Princess Dawn,

    Yes, I heard about it. The principles by which I live intuitively guide me to ignore it.
    1) God gave her free will. If she sins, she can answer to him. None of my business.
    2) It’s her life. She provides no redeeming social graces, so I have no interest in adding to her notoriety. For example. She wants the money for a college education. Just hers, or will she then give the excess away for education of others?
    3) Don’t know how the law reads about prostitution. Let the cops worry about it.
    4) Once she hit the news, notoriety set it. Any future husband will have to deal with her as pseudo celebrity and know that everyone knows who screwed his wife. He can brag about how much she brought home, but no one I know would want to fill his shoes. (She’ll probably run through several husbands, each one trying to get her money.)
    5) She displays a lack of self-respect that most females find undignified if not disgusting. Methinks the greatest value to womanhood would be to ignore her. Men won’t, so women should.
    6) Paying for sex, much less so outrageously, adds nothing to the male ego as true conquest does. So, bidders are after notoriety more than conquest or her.

    Guy

  • Thansk for your perspetive Guy. Always enlightening to hear from you. Also, I am going to be startign a group for women and will be referencingyour site a lot. God Bless u!

    MD

  • I love your site. Keep it up !

    Your Highness,
    I love it when pretty women tell me such things.
    Guy

  • Hi,

    I’ve been a reader for awhile, and I just want your perspective on something. I always seem to attract the wrong type of man whenever I go out. I dress in jeans and a t-shirt, so my clothes are plain but I don’t feel like they’re frumpy either. After talking to a guy who’s interested in me for five minutes, I either get one of three types: he’s either been to jail, we aren’t similar on an educational level (I’m looking for someone who has a degree or in the process of getting one. Not saying that not having one makes you less of a human, but for me, I think it’s a requirement) or, he’s old enough to be my father and would like a ” female friend”. (Not that I find anything wrong with older men dating younger women, but that’s another subject all together different.) Any idea as to what I’m doing wrong here, or is it just plain luck. (or in my case, unluck.)

    Princess Michelle,

    Forget luck and unluck. Just learn more about men and women. You are in charge, so charge!!!!!!!!!!

    This puts you at tremendous disadvantage: “I dress in jeans and a t-shirt, so my clothes are plain….”

    Classy clothes make unattractive women desirable for more than sex. You may find interest in Boob language, Her Exceptionalness, and Virtue—Magnet for Males. In the meantime, consider this:

     Dress like guys and be treated like a guy. Better candidates are elsewhere than where you go in t-shirt.

     Women, not men, are chosen by appearance. Men worth capturing adopt fashion and style that keeps up with the more desirable women—not always the more attractive either. Men want class more than ass in a woman they hope to keep.

     Plain clothes mean plain woman, good for sex and little else. Plain women don’t attract plain men, aka Mr. Good Enough. They attract worse, the undependable and desperate. Such men lack ambition to invest their selves, so they default to plain Jane.

    Finally, raise your sights. Try this: Appear so drop-dead gorgeous (stylish, modest, and lit up non-sexually but never radical) to that level of men that they would not dare to even speak. Then, you’ll attract the men that better match your expectations. Except when sex is cheap and easy, men compete for women. If you don’t exploit their game, you’ll continue disappointed.

    Guy

  • Guy, what would you say are the “courtesan” qualities a wife should have, I think I know but am curios to hear what you say

    Your princessness Theresa,

    Courtesan means high-class prostitute. Let’s separate terms.
    Men don’t respect prostitutes enough to marry. Why not? Lack of respect.

    Also, why would they want the proverbial whore in the bedroom except for sex disconnected from her wifeliness? Most husbands don’t want that, and wives shouldn’t.

    Women confuse and inter mix two distinctly different male sex drives: one for sexual release, the other for conquering—aka spreading seed.

    By believing that men want whorish behavior in the bedroom, women weaken their own desire for intimacy to accompany sex. Men marry for frequent and convenient sexual release. Orgasm restarts his frequency, but minimum foreplay and no afterplay determine convenience. Another unintended consequence: Disparage men and deny women.

    Moreover, husbands appreciate a high-class wife in the bedroom It confirms their conviction of her classiness outside the bedroom. Whorish behavior does not convey that.

    Wife’s ‘entertainment’ shifts bedroom intimacy over to sex, which ignites his adventurous imagination about more and elsewhere. It also generates some measure of disrespect for her that undermines his devotion.

    What qualities for a wife in the bedroom? High-class respectability that makes him appreciate her self-respect. Men appreciate self-respect as shown in post 515. Modesty and avoiding embarrassment should follow her behind closed doors. This means she may refuse certain practices without refusing coitus. How she acts in the bedroom should match her values, standards, and expectations outside. He’s not two-faced in and out of the bedroom, so she shouldn’t be.

    Guy

  • Michelle,

    I think another piece is dressing appropriately for where you are. So, if you were at a ball game, clearly t-shirt and jeans is fine. But if you’re out at the local watering hole (and always there at around the same time, which means you’re going to get the SAME crowd of men), t-shirt and jeans announces “casual”–and there’s nothing wrong with casual–but casual + local watering hole = the type of men you described are going to be the ones who approach you. Never to say that you should abandon one of your favorite spots, but just do a little experiment. Go at your usual time(s) wearing more snazzy clothing and see what kind of men approach you. Go at times different from when you normally go out, but wearing your t-shirt and jeans, and see what kind of men approach you.

    In the town I’m in, afternoons in a pub/eateries tend to have more of the professional men there because they’re on lunch or having business meetings there. The “happy hour” times at those same places, tend to attract more scallywags, namely because happy hour means “cheaper booze and free food.”

    Doesn’t take much to figure out what kind of guys would most likely be showing up for cheap booze and free food AND trying to use that time to hit on ladies* ;>

    Other thing, and this is REALLY subtle…if you drink bottled beer when out, ALWAYS ask for a glass. My female friends–and sometimes the bartender at a place we might go to–will mock me when we go out and I request a glass with the rare beer that I order (I’m usually a wine-o). I try to explain to them that sucking down a beer straight from the bottle {looks a little too much like} something else. A man’s mind doesn’t have to work hard to jump from watching them drink their beer to imagining them doing “something else.”

    Ironically, the men that approach us treat them much more informally than they do me. And usually, so does the bartender that originally mocked me for asking for a glass!!

    Men DO notice those subtle cues…

    **Happy hour is TOTALLY fine for “guys night out,” however, or a guy just having a drink after work before heading home…to his wife/family. ;>

    Your Highness Stacy,
    You sure know how to mine gold out of patriarchy.
    Guy

  • Guy, I got my terms mixed up. I was’nt thinking in sexual terms. I was thinking more in terms what traits inspire a more passionate feelings for one’s wife. The one’s I was thinking were dependency on your husband so he feels masculine, I guess in general the more masculine you make him feel, the more passionate he will feel about you. I have seem places where people refer to these traits as courtesan, because that’s why many men have affairs because the mistress makes him feel like a man and wives ignore this. There, I think I clarified things

    Your Highness Theresa,

    You described it pretty well. I would add this:

    Men can’t stand to fail. Making mistakes or being wrong means failure. Rather than escape, he compensates. Memories of disappointing wife and self can be eased by another woman to whom he can still boast a ‘perfect record’. (Men have much harder time than women living with their emotions.)

    Also, fewer and simpler responsibilities with mistress mean less likelihood of mistakes. It makes the grass appear greener, except that dumping wife for mistress turns the grass back to wifely and critical brown. Hence, he compensates at home rather than escapes.

    Guy

  • Guy,

    Gold mining’s in my blood…I AM from California afterall. ;)

  • Ah yes, it ruins the dreamlike facade(sp?)

    Princess Theresa,
    As Dennis Prager pointed out just today on his radio show: To the extent that your mind rules over emotions, you will find happiness.
    Guy

  • Guy, a man will keep a mistress a mistress because if he marries her, the fantasy is ovah! I’m a big listeners of Dennis as well

    Your Ladyship,
    Right on, Theresa. I’m gonna use it.
    Guy

  • “Moreover, husbands appreciate a high-class wife in the bedroom It confirms their conviction of her classiness outside the bedroom. Whorish behavior does not convey that.”

    Guy!!?? You mean that a man never wants a BJ from his wife?? This must be a white guy thing- I can’t tell you how many married men visit prostitutes because of soemthing kinky that his wife wont do. I thought that men want a “lady in the streets and a ho in the sheets.”

    This is strange. So if a man respects his wife he only has a desire to have delicate missionary sex with her for the rest of thier days? Really?

    The classic Madonna Whore Complex Lives!

    I hate that. Why cant a woman be both as long as the whore is subservient to the madonna?

    Your Highness Miss Dawn,

    Princess Stacy nails it giftedly in the next two comments. Wish I could say it that way, but I can’t.

    In quoting me above, the key words are ‘appreciate a high-class wife’. It’s not about his sexual urges but his consequent opinions about her.

    Of course, men may want BJ. What else signifies and confirms her subservience and his dominance? Her ultimate indignity requires no foreplay investment by him. So, what’s not to like, want, expect, demand?

    They can have hetero BJs, but when she goes down her self-respect goes down—IN HIS EYES. This weakens or prevents his respect and consequent love for her.

    You say, “I can’t tell you how many married men visit prostitutes because of something kinky that his wife won’t do.” Don’t read what follows as justification for anything, it’s just the way things are.

    This will make you scream, but taking on the kinky with prostitutes leaves respect intact for wife. Morally vacuous it may be, disrespectful and unfaithful it is, but domestic aftershocks are absent when the wife doesn’t know.

    Visiting prostitutes is far superior to viewing porn. Prostitutes release sexual energy and leave little behind except perhaps a man’s guilt. Such visits don’t disturb a man’s allegiances.

    Porn releases no sexual energy, even though sated temporarily by masturbation. Views and scenes linger in a man’s imagination, energize his curiosity for more and better, and divide his allegiance between what he has (wife) and wants to have (dreams fulfilled).

    After visiting a prostitute, the male’s mind may lose self-respect, and guilt may set in. But he can learn to live with it and the family can survive more easily than if husband’s respect for wife declines. Marriage is not about perfection; it’s all about surviving the imperfections. (Women can’t do it as men do and still keep a relationship together. They bond with sexual partners in ways that disrupt relationships.)

    Missionary sex takes its name from people that live up to someone bigger than their selves. Varying with each couple, at some point beyond the simplest expressions of intimate love, sexual gratification will override character, life’s goals, personal responsibility, and living up to something bigger than Self. When sex takes the high road, other things become insignificant—some vital to domestic tranquility.

    Guy
    P.S. Congratulations on your women’s group. Blessings on your efforts.
    G.

  • Miss Dawn,

    This has nothing to do with race at all! Come on now!

    If you are “acting,” then you are having a particular *type* of sexual encounter for the enjoyment of your husband…but not for your OWN enjoyment. The more you do that, the less he values you because 1) it feels artificial to begin with and 2) when a woman starts *giving* to a man, in this case “ho sex”–whatever that definition may mean for the individual–BECAUSE she’s heard/believes that that’s what men want, then she is no longer in the cherished role (to use Pat Allen’s language) BECAUSE she’s now trying to operate as the “giver.”

    Obviously no one is discounting passionate, wild sex in a marriage, trying something new TOGETHER, or giving your spouse a surprise or two. BUT when your sexual experience as a wife becomes one of “acting,” rather than RE-acting to the cherishing behaviors of your husband (and, as such, your passion and sexual excitement are *naturally* coming from that)…then your sexual relationship is not one based on intimacy, it’s based on just sex and it’s “just sex” based on pleasing HIS desires…not yours. That’s a turn-off for most husbands who truly value/cherish their wives.

    Read Argov’s “Why Men Marry B*itches.” She has sections on this with excerpts from men talking about how they’d view a girlfriend/wife if she started “acting” in the bedroom.

  • When men talk about “a ho/freak in the bed,” what they mean is that they want a wife who is passionate about having sex with them. Who is excited about having sex with them and enjoys it.

    They’re not saying that they need their wife to install a stripper pole in the bedroom and bust out the “103 Super Sex Tips” featured in the latest issue of Cosmo magazine, every time they have sex.

    For G-d’s sakes….most men hope that, at the very least, their wife would/will CONTINUE to have sex with them period, since many are aware of husbands who AREN’T having sex anymore with their spouses!

  • Hi Stacy,

    I do belive that there are cultural differences- I just find it interesting that most of the married men who see sex workers are married and white- I ‘m not sure men of color who marry hold the same Madonna/Whore beliefs about thier wives. I intend to reserch this further. Anyway, you didn’t adress what Guy said: “This will make you scream, but taking on the kinky with prostitutes leaves respect intact for wife.” I didn’t infer anything about acting. Quite the OPPOSITE! I’m talking about a kinky woman! I ‘m not talking abotu the sweet virgin who experiments with anal just to please her man. I’m talking about the virtual virgin who now that she has her husband wants to get nasty. Basically Guy has confirmed my greatest fear (perhaps mopre of a blow to my female ego than anything..lol) that once I land the husband of my dreams, I dare not ever go along with any of his kinky request lest as in Guys own words: “They can have hetero BJs, but when she goes down her self-respect goes down—IN HIS EYES. This weakens or prevents his respect and consequent love for her. ” I’m not sure why this makes my blood boil, perhaps bercause I have unusually high libido for a woman. Also, because i have done sex work myself, I just hate the idea of thinking that even though my husband may cherish and love me – he would go and see a hooker. But, if there is no other way which I think there is- I can ultimatly accept it- but my oh my- just as many of these realizatiosn are- it a hard pill to swallow. (pun intended)

    So what will someone say now? That I am a great example of how too much too soon can ruin a woman? That too much knowledge of sex, kills a certain level of innocence? I’m too smart to try and pretend that I have the same mindset/purity/innocence as say, my freind “Jane” who is 32 and a virgin. But at the same time, if I just throw up my hands as I have done in the past and say “WELL I’M RUINED, I’M DIRTY AND UNPURE AND NO ONE WILL EVER WANT ME SO I MIGHT AS WELL JUST….”

    The thing is is that I’m determined not to let my past determine my future and it’s a message that I am preaching to all young unvirgin women. There is a dangerous message that tell girls that they are less valuable than virgins and when they internalize this belief they use it as a licnese to be a “girl gone wild” even worse than before. I mean, it’s nto like you can go buy a new virginity on Ebay right? So there is a fine line between the acceptance of the loss of innocence but it must be balanced with sober, positive, life-affriming attitudes to prevent further self-destruction.

    But my dream of pole dancing for my hubby isnt completly dead yet..lol/ :)

  • And before anyone wants to wild crazy on Guy in terms of “kink,” let me remind you….kink is relative. Without a doubt there is someone out there who can easily, comfortably and within their *natural nature*, “out kink you,” so please…don’t assume you’re somehow living on the outer edges, sexually.

    KINK IS RELATIVE. What matters is what works for the two people in a marriage, having sex. It’s about what works for you two. Because lest we ALL forget, “kink” is NATURALLY restricted as a function of age.

    If you’re a marriage-minded woman, you need to keep that in mind. Pardon the frank talk, but note that there are no stripper poles, threesomes, or acrobat swings in the soy oil/moon ease tea/wild yam ointment/viagra-cialis commericals and catalogue ads! Why? Because the FOCUS of your marital sex life should be YOU TWO….NOT what everyone else may or may not be doing or what some magazine is saying that you *should* be doing!!!

    Ladies…you want a man who’s willing to be in it with you for the LONG HAUL…not one embarrassing himself–drunk or high–later in life at the local watering-hole where the 20-somethings are because he AND you both bought into the hype when you *were* married. Trust me, it’s sad to see.

    …and you don’t want to be there–as a mature woman–either!!

  • This may be waaay out of line- But Guy has been married a long time. And if he means to say that after 40 years of marriage that if he didi something kinky with Grace that his respect for her would lower?

    That’s just crazy to me. The discrepancy between the average modern womans belifs and the truth are astontishing.

    Your Ladyship Miss Dawn,
    You have it backward. If she let me do or get by with something that disrespected her, I’d lose respect for both of us. It ain’t the doing, it’s the results we live with.
    Guy

  • “I just find it interesting that most of the married men who see sex workers are married and white- I ‘m not sure men of color who marry hold the same Madonna/Whore beliefs about thier wives.”

    !!!!NOT TRUE. WAKE UP MISS DAWN!!!!

    The P. Diddy, Foxy, and Lil Kim era introduced a new millin into the brown-ethnic and white blue collar communities where “socially sanctioned prostitution” became accepted. Why do you need to go to a “sex worker” when you can go to your girlfriend’s/wife’s sister, your neighbor, your baby mama, woman on the side, ex-girlfriend, etc.? You are *semantically* correct, perhaps, in terms of maybe white men going to “sex workers” but don’t even believe FOR A MINUTE that men of color are not having their “needs” met by other women…even if YOU think YOU’RE giving them the “ho sex of their lives!”

    There. is. ALWAYS. a. woman. who. looks. better. than. you. Is. freakier. than. you. Is. more. interesting. to. bed. than. you. Who. looks. better. naked. than. you.

    What puts YOU on a pedestal is NOT your sex skills, it’s you’re WHO YOU ARE skills. Who you are is what gets a man’s cherishing energy…not your BJs.

    I’ll post more about this tomorrow morning. I’ve gotta get to a drum rehearsal. :>

  • Hmmm… Not quite sure I understand where this is all going.

    Guy,

    Can you specifically clarify 2 issues for me….

    Are you saying in order for the wife to keep respect she should not give BJs and also that it is OK and acceptable for husbands to go to prostitutes?

    Princess Reina,
    Re prostitutes: You missed this sentence preceding the subject: “Don’t read what follows as justification for anything, it’s just the way things are.”
    I address your other question in your comment below.
    Guy

  • Miss Dawn,

    I guess, at the end of the day, if the sex thing is this important to you, you could use a yes/no/maybe sheet.

  • Reina,

    I think what Guy is saying is that any thing a woman is doing to simply *service* a man is going to cause him to lose respect for her. For each woman (and man, I suppose), whatever that “thing” is may vary, but “the thing” or “things” still exists. It exists even in BDSM & Poly marriages, where most people might think that “anything goes.”

    In terms of prostitutes, Guy is just detailing the thought process. Nothing he wrote says that he thinks it’s “okay” for men to see prostitutes. He IS, however, comparing the potential relationship damage of a man visiting a prostitute versus a man having a porn addiction. Essentially, talking about picking between two evils.

    Describing a reality doesn’t mean that you’re condoning it.

    Your Ladyship Stacy,
    Thank you for another perfect interpretation and translation.
    Guy

  • Stacy,

    I do not see how your explanation washes with what Guy said and really want to hear directly from him.

    Also, all this business of “servicing” a man sexually is only wrong in a premarital relationship.

    If you want to get biblical about it-and that is the only absolute authority I seek- both spouses are SUPPOSED to be “servicing” each other.

    1st Corin. 7:3-4
    “A wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but his wife does. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.”

    There are many times (sexually or non-sexually) that you will be doing something of service totally for your partner. For a woman to do this before marriage is what is wrong. A husband is called upon more and mostly for the self-sacrificing and so the man must demonstrate his devotion and commit, but the wife should also be giving, to the extent that she is not feeling she is doing something that is wrong or disrespectful to her. See below-

    If you are keeping the marriage undefiled and there are no other moral issues to contend with (ie, NO partner swapping, porn, bestiality, pedophilia), there is very little if any thing left that needs to be refrained from.

    • A.GuyMaligned

      Princess Reina,

      Princess Stacy clarifies it well. Also, you nailed it with “…she is not feeling she is doing something that is wrong or disrespectful to her.”

      First Corinthians can be used to justify anything in the marital chamber, and I don’t find fault with it. But I hold that a higher duty, the Christian’s duty to honor one’s mate, excludes sex if the prospects threaten her self-respect.

      For example, a female’s modesty may oppose his authority over her body. Then what? Possible consequences: He honors her modesty as imperative, or she acquiesces, or he claims his rights and imposes his will. Anyway in which they proceed beyond the act being considered or contested, she loses self-respect. Her reduced self-respect will drive down his respect for her. If he honors her modesty, her self-respect goes up.
      Guy

  • Reina,

    “but the wife should also be giving, to the extent that she is not feeling she is doing something that is wrong or disrespectful to her.”

    Exactly. This IS what I said…so I’m not quite sure what you’re getting at.

    {???}

  • WHY DID NO ONE REALLY HEAR WHAT I WAS SAYING?????

    Stacy, I have No idea what the “YES/NO/MAYBE Sheet” is.

    I just think it’s interesting how no one had adressed the simple questi0n/comment I was making.

    So let me ask it another way..

    What are the specific sex acts that destroy a HUSBANDS respect and consequent love for HIS WIFE?

    Please read this carefully for all who keep misinterpreting my point, this is a quote from what Guy said above (explanations in parenthesis added by me so as to remove possibility of misinterpretation):

    “…but when she (The WIFE) goes down (Performs oral sex on her husband because she ENJOYS it- the taste of him, the feeling of ultimate submission, etc.) her self-respect goes down—IN HIS EYES ( Even thought he enjoyed the act somehow he now respects/cherishes/ adores her less for some unknown and mysterious reason). This weakens or prevents his respect and consequent love for her. ”

    THEREFORE, since I am serious about having the highest level of respect from my future husband, I seek to eliminate as many unecesarry mistakes as possible through knowledge that I am gaining from many sources, one being this Blog.

    Now that what I am saying is more clear, is there anyone who can shed light on why this is, and if there is any way around it?

    I know of girls who think that putting thier mouth “down there” is disgusting, so if a man married a girl like this, he would adore her even more because he knows her lips have never touched another cock before? Even if that means he forfeits it from his own wife. Or… Oh My God. This just popped into my head… No tell me it can’t be… He doesn’t WANT it from his pure wife!!

    Since it’s the MAN not the WOMAN who regards a BJ(By the way, I just chose BJ to examine my point, please fell free to insert any act what falls outside of the lines of what men deem okay to do with thier pure wives) as dirty, nasty because HE knows what he’s done with his dick before he met her and HE is the one who feels like such a thing should not be in her mouth or ass or whatever.

    Is this right? This is how man are right? So really, if a kinky woman get a man who loves her, she should NEVER reveal to him the fact that she would WANT to to these things, lest his consequent love and respect for her is weakened.

    The Madonna/Whore Complex lives!

    Your Highness Miss Dawn,
    Please see my next comment below.
    Guy

  • Thank you, Guy. Love your blog, just don’t always agree, but hey, that’s life and I get a lot of value out of it anyway.

    Miss Dawn,

    People will put a lot of information out there and you have to sort it out ultimately, for yourself.

    On the whole issue of prostitutes vs porn being the lesser of two evils- I vehemently disagree. In fact, while both violate the marriage bed, the physical act of adultery itself is the highest level of disrespect a man could show his wife (or either spouse for the other) and is absolute grounds for divorce as the sanctity of the marriage covenant has totally been violated. Period.

    Based on what the bible says about sex, as long as there is no moral issue, there is nothing wrong with one spouse performing any specific act to please the other (even if they don’t like it so much) as long as the other is not selfishly trying to impose their will on the other. Both spouses are supposed to be considerate of the other person.

    In fact, if anything, it should then raise respect in the mind of the other, unless that person is warped. In that case, nothing you do will ever really be “right” in the mind of that person as they are on some sort of neurotic power trip- and those are the people we are trying to stay away from anyway.

    If you did courtship the right way, and married “Mr. Right,” or at least “Mr. Good Enough, the sex games stop when you get married. Convenient and frequent access to sex, right? That means for both people, hello! Feel free to hang from the chandeliers if that does it for you.

    I henceforth declare the Madonna/Whore complex DEAD! :)

    • A.GuyMaligned

      Ladies,

      You and I now operate on different wavelengths. Your youthfulness seeks specifics. I try to focus on subtle nuances not generally recognized. Please allow me to smother this stirred-up beehive with smoke and thus calm the bees.

      I shot myself in the foot. I accept responsibility for opening subjects and sustaining comments far too complex and personal for public discourse. Never intended but I added unnecessary heat and stirred confusion into a pot devoted to clarity.

      Please forgive me, ladies, and allow me to retreat with dignity. Not from What Women Never Hear, but from sex acts other than the generalized ‘having sex’.

      Take this in a grandfather’s sense as if whispered in your ear: I love you.

      Guy

  • *sigh*

    Okay Guy, your off the hook this time. My conclusion on this subject is this: Stripper pole installation in our bedroom after the honeymoon. :)

  • Oh Guy, no worries. Yes, the world has turned so topsy-turvy that we thirst for clarity at every turn.

    You know we love you too. :)

    Your Ladyship Reina,
    You added clarity with nice phrasing. Thanks.
    Guy

  • okay, I’m late to the conversation, but I want to add this:

    I’m Catholic, and it seems to me that Catholics have three fundamental rules for sex, rules which aren’t bad for anyone, especially anyone of Christian faith:
    1. Sexual intimacy is to be reserved for husband and wife – it is unitive in nature;
    2. Sexual intimacy is to be “open to live” – sex is by nature procreative; and finally,
    3. Sexual intimacy should be approached with great respect and reverence – not only for one’s spouse, but also for the incredible Mystery we share in – (two becoming one, marriage being analagous to the union of Christ with His Church)

    Within those parameters…???? Have fun! Oo la, la!

    How’d I do, Guy? :)

    Your Exceptionalness Laura,
    You did wonderfully well. Thanks.
    Guy

  • Guy,

    Be sure to keep blogging your voice of sanity in a world where insanity parades as “normal.” Thank God there are some of us “oldies” who remember a time when men and women really loved and respected each other and dressed to show it; a time when no man of dignity would have interpreted the word “helpmeet” to mean the wife getting outside employment to support him.I feel sorry for the younger generation that never experienced chivalry or true femininity. Keep blogging. Tell us everything you know.

    LadyLydia from http://www.homeliving.blogspot.com and http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com

  • Hi Guy,

    This is a general question, but important.

    Is it ever possible for a man not to want to stray? To be thoroughly attracted to one woman? To not WANT anyone else?

    Or do all men merely keep from straying out of duty, fear of consequences, or Christian morals?

    At the risk of sounding hopelessly naive, I want someone to desire only me always. If a man is loyal out of duty or because he is a good man, that is a commendable- but leaves you as a woman feeling completely empty. You want to be forever beautiful to the man you love. I would give anything – truly, anything- to inspire that in a man. Therefore, the idea of spending a lifetime being a mere vessel for someone whose mind will always wander elsewhere is unbearable.

    Could anyone be captivated for life? Is passionate, devoted, lasting attraction even possible? Do any men so desire their wives that the idea of being with another woman repulses them?

    Please give me your thoughts.

    Thank you,

    K

    Your Loveliness K,
    I summarize your questions this way: You want romantic love to last forever. Sorry, it fades in a year or two, but it lays critical groundwork for enduring love. So, I’ll add a few thoughts that may help:

    “Is it ever possible for a man not to want to stray? To be thoroughly attracted to one woman? To not WANT anyone else?” Of course it’s possible. A beautiful woman can attract his eyeballs without stirring his loins or heart. So don’t judge his character or intentions by his glances. (More on glances at post 570.)

    “Or do all men merely keep from straying out of duty, fear of consequences, or Christian morals?” You should at least choose that well. What overrides emotion keeps people faithful. Love and affection have emotional interruptions that invite emotional revenge that invites emotional infidelity. Living up to something bigger than Self provides continual guidance to do the right things.

    “At the risk of sounding hopelessly naive, I want someone to desire only me always.” Naïve yes, but not hopeless. You can’t just want it, you have to earn it with other than beauty, because so much beauty is available elsewhere.

    “You want to be forever beautiful to the man you love. I would give anything – truly, anything- to inspire that in a man.” Your beauty attracts him, it doesn’t hold him. Think of the beautiful picture you hang, and three days later you don’t notice it.

    “Could anyone be captivated for life? Is passionate, devoted, lasting attraction even possible?” Of course, but not within the romantic model you envision. Enduring love is much different.

    “Do any men so desire their wives that the idea of being with another woman repulses them?” Repulse? No, that’s expecting too much. It calls for abandonment of their genetic and hormonal makeup. Parenthetically, ‘desire’ as you use it fades with romantic love. Devotion and cherishment better fit the enduring love model.

    Guy

  • i have 3 questions. things have been going really great in a relationship i’m in. he has a tendency to shut me out when he’s stressed. we have spoken about it before and he said, it should not have happened. last Wed, he was studying for exams (engineering) and i called coz we had not spoken for a week and i expected him to at least sound happy to hear from me and he picked up and told me he was in the library. i said you sound offish and he replied, “i’m in the library i’m writing tomorrow.” (have been told i should be grateful?! he picked up. most people ignore calls when they are in the library)

    nothing wrong with why he couldn’t talk. it was the TONE of his voice. i texted him and said, “can’t remember feeling so small. i’ll be quite honest, it was hurtful. again, sorry for disturbing you.” he texted back, “didn’t mean to be rude. sori.” we have not spoken since. he finished writing his exams on Mon.

    my 3 questions — (1) am i being unreasonable in expecting him to pick up the phone and apologise knowing that i was clearly hurt? (i am determined not to call him until he does just that) (2) the texted apology — for a man, does he feel he has apologised and therefore we should move on? (3)should i call him?

    i always remember what you wrote in one of your postings , “the one that can’t stand to lose the other will lose. if you treat him as expendable, he reads it as if he’s about to lose you. if you’re worth it, he’ll stay. if you’re not, he’ll depart. either way, you win.” am i misapplying this principle in this case? please help. i am going out of my head!

    Your Exceptionalness Thoko,
    I can’t advise, but I’ll offer some thoughts about your three questions:

    “(1) am i being unreasonable in expecting him to pick up the phone and apologise knowing that i was clearly hurt? (i am determined not to call him until he does just that)” Determination trumps unreasonableness. Actions trump apologies. Stick with your game plan, or else you’ll attract other hurts.

    “(2) the texted apology — for a man, does he feel he has apologised and therefore we should move on?” You’re into wishful thinking. Past actions make up his record, which shows that his work leaves room for you only when convenient.

    “(3)should i call him?” Why? For more hurts? If you all have had sex, he’s probably a goner or you’re booty. If no sex, waiting him out will teach him something that perhaps will inure to your advantage.

    Guy

    • Thank you Guy!!!

      I really needed affirmation on my course of action and NO!!!!!!! we are not having sex. I have NO intention of having sex with anyone UNLESS they marry me.

      We’re both very committed Christians but at very different spiritual levels. I’ve been a Christian longer than him.

      Again, thank you.

    • Sir Guy,

      just a note to say thank you for your advice here and in post 309. i would not have have the courage to “wait him out” (4 months!!! can you believe it?) had i not applied most of the advice in your blog. he said he kept hoping i would call coz he was scared to. i completely disappeared from his radar and would leave the church grounds immediately after our meetings to avoid bumping into him. it wasn’t until all the congrs went to an assembly elsewhere. he waited for me on the foyer and when i approached he smiled and well…
      it has brought us to this stage.

      waiting him out has definitely “inured to my advantage.” he now knows exactly what kind of behaviour i won’t tolerate. and also knows that since i won’t tolerate what he thought was a minor offence, i will walk out of the relationship if he EVER committed a major one! he has apologised over and over for his behaviour that night. he is more tender and loving in his dealings with me. he even told me last night that, “i know that if i ever left this church, i would lose you.”

      in one of your posts you wrote, “he should be second to God, because she’s better off teaming with a man that lives up to something bigger and better than himself.” soon after him and i resolved our differences (talk about perfect timing), at church we studied James 1:26 which says, “if any man seems to himself to be a formal worshiper and yet does not bridle his tongue, but goes on decieving his own heart, this man’s form of worship is futile.” he has learned that the way in which we use our tongues affects our relationship with God and that our speech cannot be seperated from our worship.

      so thank you Sir Guy. i could thank you a million times over, but that wouldn’t measure up to all the good you have done for me and others. i will continue to peer into your blog all the way to HOPEFULLY the altar with THIS guy and beyond.

      be blessed,

      • Princess Rita

        I’m glad to see the principles Guy is talking about at work Thoko.

        What does “i know that if i ever left this church, i would lose you.” mean though? Sometimes it becomes necessary to change churches…I hope you aren’t in a cult????

        I would still keep my eyes open with this gentleman. What’s to prevent him from behaving in a callous manner once you are married to him?(after he has conquered you). I wouldn’t want to live with a man who is brusque. Just my two cents. Guy is it possible that this person will change completely and permanently in order to keep Thoko happy???

        Sorry Thoko, I don’t really know how this all works so I ask a lot of questions.

        Your Exceptionalness Princess Rita,

        Is it possible? I favor the affirmative.

        He didn’t overdo it trying to recover from his mistake (apology by texting) after she invaded his professional domain at a critical time (library) Instead, he took time, and it would seem analyzed what he’d done vs. what he wanted, and then waited for her after church. It guarantees nothing, but it makes me think he’s a man of sufficient probity to warrant her patience to see where he intends to take them.

        Guy

  • timberwraith

    It’s really sad that you divvy up your world into such tiny, restrictive boxes. You have a black and white perspective on a Technicolor world.

    Your Highness Timberwraith,

    I’ll let other readers comment on your term ‘sad’. They’re ladies of good will, good cheer, and good ‘smarts’.

    Not feminist but natural female self-interest flows out of black and white, right and wrong, good and bad standards, values, and expectations. The kind that suppress masculine aggressiveness and violence and breed manly respect and family responsibility.

    With mindless feminist endorsement, men generate the Technicolor world you perceive: relative morality; unpunished abuse, aggression and violence; frequent and convenient sex at little or no cost; family abandonment; lack of respect for the opposite gender; self-centeredness and narcissism; feelings encouraged over reason, low self-esteem in children; children’s lack of respect for adults; and unrelenting and expanding abuse of females and children.

    You’ll find those and other female-vital themes in What Women Never Hear. So, you may wish to visit other blogs more in tune with your feelings.

    Guy

  • timberwraith

    Right. I get it. You equate social change and acceptance of a diversity of ways of being with chaos, violation of the “proper” moral order, and the downfall of society. You live in fear of change and difference. Again, that is so sad, for it narrows your experience of the world.

    If those wonderful gender roles from days past were so beneficial and produced such bliss and well being, they would not have produced the social stress that has acted as an engine of change over the past forty to fifty years. If you could cast a magic spell and push gender rolls back fifty years, those roles would still undo themselves.

    Of course, I know you aren’t wiling to see that, because for you, traditional gender roles are the proverbial shining beacon on a hill.

    That’s OK. Change has come and has left fearful folk such as yourself behind. Time’s forward march is clear. It started with the women’s liberation movement of the 60s and 70s. Now it continues with the push for civil rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The roles are unraveling even further. There’s nothing you can do to stop it.

    Life is change. That which does not change is dead.

    Your Highness Timberwraith,

    I accept that you’ve heard what women hear endlesssly. This blog opposes your claims with over 150,000 words in 571 articles. That’s one a day for over 18 months.

    Since our interests are so vastly different, let’s part company amiably.

    BTW I lived, witnessed, and studied as an adult before, during, and after the 60s and 70s. Your causes don’t match the roots I witnessed regarding social change.

    Guy

  • An intepretation of a political slant on the dynamic of the Male /female relationship would be an additional dimension for your comments, but please a gentle reminder that what really attracted me and I am sure other women to your daily posts are the insights into the male mind and how those insights can assist women in improving their relationships with men, please delve deeper in to the way men think and feel in terms of females and what really motivates them to become devoted to one female above all others.

  • Greetings, Mr. “Maligned”!

    I very recently found your blog and have been making my way through the archives. Like many others here, I wish I had had the benefit of your wisdom long ago.

    Would you consider doing a series on Recovery for Wives? That is, for those of us who have been married awhile and have made a lot of the mistakes that you have shed light on (like nagging, parenting our spouses, being too aggressive in arguments, etc).

    Is there a way out of the potholes we’ve helped to create in our marriages?

    You are a remarkable man. Thank you for your generosity in helping us remake our corners of the garden (thank you, too, Mrs. Grace!)

    Your Princessness Honeybee,

    Thanks. I love it when pretty women tell me such things.

    I’ve just started a new series, but I’ll examine the possiblity of one named Recovery for Wives. (Love the title and hope to do it justice.)

    Guy

    • Princess Rita

      Doctor Laura’s “The Care and Feeding of Husbands” might tide you over for a bit. Much very wise advice that I wish I’d followed when I was married. I hope it’s ok for me to recommend. It isn’t a religion-base book but can’t remember anything objectionable about it.

      Your Preciousness Princess Rita,
      Yes, I studied it when it came out in 2004. She nails it in simple terms.
      Guy

  • GUY!!!! I HAVE JEWLS FOR YOU!! LOOK AND ADD THESE TO YOUR BLOGROLL! ESPECIALLY NUMBER 1.

    http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/mcm/mcm_08girls_be_wary.html

    http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/dating-diaries-what-makes-someone-promiscuous-242134/

    Your Preciousness Miss Dawn,
    Thank you. You’re right. I added the first to blogroll.
    Guy

  • Princess Rita

    Great finds!

    • Stealth Femme

      I’m obsesses with the subject and am crafting ideas for a book……

      Its amazing how much sense this all makes and how little of it is lived out… sheesh…..

  • Guy,
    Very informative site! My fiance and I just read through a bunch of your articles, and I must say….I’m glad I got your computer fixed! Keep up the good work!

  • Guy,
    Im like a big sponge with the information being the liquid obsorbed. This is intuitive and dead on! I have been married 2 times, last one 18 years together, 5 kids. I lost respect for her before we married. I didnt know that for 18 years. Your blog has ignited new enrollment for me to my x’s and my children. You have given me ways to tap that core, to be shown respect I must show respect. What a concept. You sir Guy are wise and Grace is a princess in all respects. The loss of a child at 30 would be a huge hurdle. God has blessed you and me with you.

    • Keith hi,

      welcome. please, if you don’t mind, could you explain, “I lost respect for her before we married.”?

      you don’t have to go into too much detail. i’m really interested into practical application and a guy’s perspective of this matter as Sir Guy is always alluding to it.

      thanks in advance,

      • Hello Thoko. I found some sense of non interest after sex. We actually slept together for several months before sex and it was so awesome. I wondered why I didnt feel the same a couple days later. Partly the conquer, and that she was not respectful after. Partly she didnt seem who she said she was. She said one thing but her actions were totally different. Same after we married, as soon as we said I do I was different and I knew it. The rice had barely begun. Sir Guy eludes to respect and you? I dont give advice and you should go with your gut..Thanks Keith

  • Keith,

    thanks for your reply. i believe totally in Sir Guy and everything he says in this blog. you have no idea how much difference it has made to my love life. i think i have a typical male on my hands and the more i implement Sir Guy’s advice (“feel the fear and do it anyway” (smile)), the more things just seem to work out exactly as Sir Guy says.

    it still doesn’t make sense to me that a man actually feels less respect for a woman for having slept with her before marriage. just shows you that what God said a long time ago about sexual relations being allowed only between a married couple is true.

    thanks again,

    • Princess Rita

      Thoko,

      I think I read it on this blog that men figure if you give in to them, you’ll give in to anyone. Now, why they excuse this behavior in themselves and not in women is something I don’t understand. I guess we could put it under the umbrella of, “that’s the way God made them” with one of the reasons God made them that way being (I think) that men know instinctively that if a woman is “wild” she won’t be a nurturing mother or wife-so he will have sex with her (like two impersonal animals might-no offense to animals) but would not consider her wife or long term relationship material. I don’t know if this is an original thought on my part or if Guy said it at some point but it seems pretty logical to me.

      Also that old phrase “the kind you can bring home to mother” comes to mind. In days of old, a man wouldn’t dream of bringing home a girl with a bad reputation because it probably meant he was considering her for marriage and his parents would not want a wild, non-nurturing woman joining their family (and rightly so).

      My cousin broke the rule in a sense by marrying a wild girl and now her kids have no mother in their life. I wish young men today looked past all the “hot bods” and looked for good women more often. They are doing their future children a grave disservice with this foolish way of choosing a life partner. When will people in this country feel enough pain about this to change???

      • hey Riiiiita,

        still very, very unfair. but i love myself too much now anyway to give myself to any man without a shiny little something on my finger. get my drift? he, he.

        be well,

  • Princess Rita

    I know. Life DOES seem very unfair sometimes. I have a feeling though that the suffering we go through and the sacrifices we make will be well worth it, if not in this life, then certainly in the next most glorious life!

  • Stealth Femme

    Hi Guy!

    Have you seen the movie “Precious”? If not please google it and watch the trailer. I’d like your opinion on something……

    Can the lead character have what is describedin your blogs?

    Thanks

    MD

    Your Princesstial Highness Stealth Femme,
    I had no luck finding trailer on google, but I’ve had it in my Netflix queue for some time if it’s ever released.
    Guy

  • I think she can. She will have to completely reprogram her brain which will help her modify her behavior and move forward. I think anything is possible if we pray and keep pushing forward.

    I love Tyler Perry movies-can’t wait to see this one.

  • Check out the kudos the actress that played “Precious” got at the movie premiere. Forward to 1:44-

    I think she’s one of us with her beautiful orange dress (in a sea of black clothing) and her curtsy!

  • Here’s a link to the trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5FYahzVU44

    Here is a link to the premiere I mentioned above. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJpiljQt7I4

  • he, he Rita. no we are not a cult. we just don’t date or marry outside our religion. so if he was to change religions, that would be a dealbreaker for me.

    yr 2nd question – he revealed to me that this is his first ever relationship. he saw someone for all of 3 months when he was in matric and his dad put an immediate stop to it. so he concentrated on his books at university (graduates as a mining engineer this month) until he met me at church last year.

    so, you could say he is a bit “raw” when he comes to relationships and i have a lot of indirect teaching to do. as Sir Guy wrote in his answer in post 309, “He doesn’t understand your standards and expectations, so he needs teaching. That’s where indirectness comes in. It means take time, use patience, and have a forgiving spirit.” and i am willing to do just that because he really is an amazing guy. and yes he has a lot going for him and has every reason to be proud of himself… but then so do i.

    smoochies,

    Your Princessness Thoko,

    I commented about your situation to Princess Rita in her comment immediately below.

    Also, I’ll add this for you: His relationship ‘rawness’ you should translate as fear of venturing into the unknown with you. So, patience and indirectness should aid your efforts.

    Guy


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