CTBHHM: Having a Nervous Breakdown? Selfish Woman!
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 156—159 “I’m About to Have a Nervous Breakdown.” That is how Debi titles this bit, which closes out her section teaching young women “to be sober.” This should be...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Tell My Wife To Have Sex With Me!
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 161—164 In this post we begin on Debi’s chapter “To Love Their Husbands.” Remember that Debi is working her way through the things older women are commanded to teach...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Divine Lovers and Desperate Castration
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 164—167 We’re still in the chapter on loving your husband, which means this week is going to be all about sex once again. No woman loves her husband if she does not...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Don’t Talk to Me about Pain!
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 168—170 We’re still in Debi’s chapter on love sex, remember. In case you’re wondering, there will be two more weeks of devoted to this chapter. Next week will cover a...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Sexual Intercourse = Our Relationship with Jesus
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 171—173 This week’s section brought up a lot of fairly random thoughts for me. For instance, is possible that the Pearls’ discussion of sex as “holy” has helped some...
View ArticleCTBHHM: 75 Unhappy Homeschool Kids
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 177—178 Debi is walking us through each of the things Titus 2 says older women are to teach younger women, and this week we begin the section titled “To Love Their...
View ArticleCTBHHM: The Bitter, Critical Woman
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 178—180 This section is weird for me. Why? Because, well, I found myself agreeing with it, for the most part. And not just that, but I found it speaking to my own...
View ArticleCTBHHM: “Sexual Perversions”
Created To Be His Help Meet, p. 174 This brief section—only one page—is titled “Exceptions: Sexual Perversions.” This is the very end of Debi’s chapter on loving your husband (which is, of course, all...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Praying Women and “Spiritual Masturbation”
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 180—182 So, Debi gets mail. Or rather, Michael does, but whatever, it made into Debi’s book. Dear Mr. Pearl, I am a busy mother whose children go to a Christian school....
View ArticleCTBHHM: Esther and Her Mother
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 182—183 We’re still in the chapter on loving your children. Remember, Debi has told women to love their children by loving their husbands, and to love their children by...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Daycare Is Adopting Your Kid Out
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 184—185 We are still in Debi’s chapter on loving one’s children. Last week we got to the first part of the chapter that actually contained some actually good advice....
View ArticleCTBHHM: Sexually Abused Children as Broken, Diseased
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 185—186 This week we get to read the end of Debi’s chapter on loving one’s children. The Hall There is no permanent cure for genital herpes and many other forms of...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Discretion and the Jewel in the Pig’s Nose
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 188—189 Here we begin the chapter titled “To Be Discreet.” Debi of course starts by quoting Titus 2 once again, given that she is going through it’s pieces one by one...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Debi Speaks on Ruth’s Sex Life (and a Stove)
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 192—194 In this section we get a letter from a woman named Ruth, and Debi’s response to it. Remember that we are in the section on being “discreet,” so presumably this...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Sex, Charles, and Lesbians
Created To Be A Help Meet, pp. This week we continue with Debi’s questions not to ask your husband. 7. Do you ever think of just loving me in the spiritual way instead of always the carnal? I am so...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Men Can’t Take Criticism (Ever)
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 194—195 This intro matter confuses me a bit. The Skinny Swine Lack of Judgement “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands”...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Finding a “Decent” Woman
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 199—201 This week we start Debi’s chapter on being “chaste.” Remember, she’s going through the proscriptions in Titus 2: 4—5. Last week we finished her chapter on being...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Wear a Sack
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 201—202 We’re in Debi’s chapter on being “chaste,” and not surprisingly, we’re discussing modesty. I actually found this passage really interesting myself, because...
View ArticleCTBHHM: The Catch 22
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 202—204 We’re still in the section on modesty, and here we get to the question of pants, which is a heated topic in so many fundamentalist circles. Once we’re through...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Bad Bob
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 204—207 Alright, story time! I’ve been waiting for this section for ages because . . . well. If you’re new here, you’ve stumbled upon my page by page review of Debi...
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