Christian women let go of control and start dating

I didn’t realize that the very thing I was asking him to do-to be a man- was the part of him I’d been chipping away, bit by bit, ever since our wedding day. Then I watched while his whole countenance changed from adversarial to brokenhearted.

His eyes got as big as saucers and shock covered his face. I wasn’t anticipating the power of my words, but they obviously dealt a heavy blow. We had been fighting about something stupid for days, neither one of us willing to stand down.

It was early in my marriage and I didn’t know then what I know now. I remember glaring at him across our kitchen table with a disdain in my eyes that was equally real in my heart: “When are you going to just man-up and take care of it?”