Not much to say about Mrs Robinson Today

I am looking over chapter 5 and I almost skipped it because 1) the whole chapter is about Fritz and Father going back to the boat so there is hardly any more mention of life on the shore and 2) because this blog is meant for me (and women) to break down what it means to be a Godly wife and although her lines were rather short in this Chapter, her role was just as important as the men going back to the wreck.

Just as I was about to flip the page to the next chapter, I realized, wow this man is so in love with his bride! It is really quite special. But this is not all on his doing. Yes he could love her unconditionally, but would he be so completely in love if she wasn't the way she was? She is nervous to be left on the island all day and night but doesn't show it. She supports him by her joyful attitude. I know I used to be like many other woman who did not support my husband with a joyful attitude. There would be negative comments and argument to have things done "right" but now I know, it it so much more important to give my husband the opportunity to lead my family whether I think he's doing it the fast way or not. Either way, it's either going to get done, or he'll realize he had not such a great idea...That doesn't take away from the respect men want in any way.

Did you know, a survey was done for men and then for women and the question was "what do you want most from your spouse?" This was a secular study. (I'm sorry I don't have the reference, I looked for it but couldn't find it. So take this as a grain a grain of salt if you wish.) Guess what the women wanted most from their husband. Love. Guess what husbands wanted. Respect. So if this is the thing that men need to strive as husbands (whether they know it or not, I think as soon as they get it or see they don't have it, they realize it.) And this is just me as a wife talking but I know my husband well, not to say I know all men well, but this is something we talk about as a couple often. It was a different story when I didn't show my husband any respect. If we were the Swiss family Robinson in that state of marriage, it would have been Hell on earth. What if Mrs Robinson had said to her husband "You can go back to that wreck if you want but I'm not happy about it. It's foolish, you are putting your family in danger and it's not fair". It could very well have gone that way, but it didn't. Instead she said to him "Yes you must go. I will take care of things here, don't even worry about it. I love you husband so much." Picture the attitude both of them would have had after each one of those sceanario. I prefur the second. If you prefer the first, you probably like living in the comfort of your flesh. Christ tells us, mostly through Paul, to get rid of that fleshly desire. How can we go on living in sin if we have died to it? There is no way! Romans 6:2ish I strive everyday, every moment actually to know when I am giving into fleshly desires. It's transforming!