Lies Wives Believe

Better half.  Beauty with the Beast.  The Stronger of the Two.  The Prettier of the Two.

There are many things that the culture expects you to be as his wife.  Perhaps you even feel that you should be his competition!  The Bible has a lot to say about husbands and wives, especially about the type of wife God wants you to be.

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Why is it that we deny the obvious?  Men and women are physically built differently, and women still get defensive because they feel that they have to be the same as a man.

What we should be doing is using the strengths that each of us has to build a stronger whole:

While I can intellectually understand that men are physically stronger, what has been missing from the discussion about the Biblical roles of men and women is this: women have a strength that men typically do not…

Communication. Relationships.

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Neither are “better than” the other.

We’re just different.

And together, male and female, we make the image of God.

[I need and Want a Strong Loving Man… You? – The Respect Dare]

So let’s stop trying to figure out who’s better, men or women, and instead, let’s focus on making our marriages something that’s all that God wants them to be!

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