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Re: A Checklist For A Godly Wife
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2018, 04:10:19 PM »
Avoid, ruining, Not -- too many negatives there. Getting confusing.
Are you saying that you're just kidding about this exercise?  Everyone wants to avoid ruining his life.
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You can avoid THIS: ruining your life by NOT doing this simple exercise: by doing this exercise.
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You can avoid ruining your life by doing this exercise, because if you do NOT do this exercise, you might not avoid problems later.
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Non-negative version:
If you avoid this exercise you might invite disaster in the future.
Think of it as an insurance policy -- the one-time premium is the exercise, which insures against future problems.
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Most insurance policies involve the annoying fact of numerous timely payments in the future.
This one only requires one simple payment in the present, one not too difficult to accomplish, with many future benefit times.

Re: A Checklist For A Godly Wife
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2018, 04:32:28 PM »
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I have known several very happy marriages where the husband does most of the cooking, while the wife steers clear of the kitchen.
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I have known of unhappy marriages where the wife interferes with her husband's presence in the kitchen.
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Sometimes the wife's cooking isn't much to be proud of, but she resents her husband's ability to cook -- COVETEOUS, ENVIOUS.
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Even if the wife is a good cook, if her husband wants to prepare a meal, she should not stand in his way, or complain about it.
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She ought to be happy that she can take some time off.
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But some women are prone to look for opportunities to be upset about something, etc., etc.
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It's quite possible that the husband finds enjoyment and fulfillment in preparing certain recipes, and faces having to pretend that he approves of the way his wife does the same thing. Why bother with that? Just let him have his fun! 
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The female tendency toward pride, jealousy, envy, contempt, is a great weakness, which can do a lot of damage.
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She should learn to put her pride on the shelf for a while and enjoy the reward of her husband's efforts. 
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It's not about competition. Life doesn't have to be an ongoing conflict or a race to see who's better at something.