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CTBHHM: David’s Sin Was All Bathsheba’s Fault
Created To Be His Help Meet, p. 207 I have written so often about the tendency of what I call “the purity culture” to blame women for men’s sexual actions. Even rape is too often blamed on the woman...
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Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 208—209 Debi is really good at scaring women into doing just as she says. Have you noticed that? If you don’t submit to your husband and have sex with him any time he...
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Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 210—211 Debi just finished telling her readers that God’s desire is for mothers to be keepers in the home, and that if they leave their children with others (even for...
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You’re probably wondering where today’s Created To Be His Help Meet post is. I have some sad news—there won’t be one, technically speaking. I cannot find my copy of the book, and believe me, I have...
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CTBHHM: Get off the Internet!
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 211—222 I am now armed with a fresh copy of Created To Be His Help Meet and ready to resume my reviews. For reasons completely unknown to me, my previous copy never...
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Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 214—215 This week we begin Debi’s chapter on being “Good,” which is the next character trait listed in Titus :4-5. The Crown “A virtuous woman is a crown to her...
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Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 216—217 In this section, we see the alternative to the “good woman” Debi outlined in her three examples last week. In that passage she spoke of men who are lazy, or bad...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Are You a Dumb Cluck?
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 217—219 Dear Mrs. Pearl, I am so tired and discouraged. I feel as though my husband just doesn’t love me or care for his family as he should. The house is falling...
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Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 219 A good woman has a lot to offer the marriage. A man is wiser and more successful in his endeavors because his wife has a great deal of informational resources and a...
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Created To Need His Help Meet, pp. 229—231 We now begin Debi’s chapter on being obedient to one’s husband. In this first section, Debi mainly just quotes Bible verses, and then interprets them for her...
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Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 236—237 I’ll tell you right off that this section is a doozy. There is a lot to unpack here, and there are a lot of things that help explain where Debi is coming from...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Men Are Powder Kegs (so Don’t Provoke Them)
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 237—238 Today we learn that Debi thinks all men are explosive powder kegs who lash out in sudden anger at a moment’s notice. I’m not surprised by this, but I sure am...
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CTNAHM: Michael Compliments Himself—by Complimenting Debi
By Aletha Originally posted on Yllom Mormon Created To Need A Help Meet, pp. 165—167 After what I’m calling the Great Internet Blackout ’14 (turns out backhoes and cables don’t mix…you’d think the...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Be Entrepreneurs . . . but only at Home!
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 220—227 In this passage we turn back to women and work, and Proverbs 31. Men value hardworking women who are eager to learn how to do new things. No man wants to be...
View ArticleCTBHHM: (Misplaced) Hope for an Abused Woman
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 232—236 Remember that we are in the chapter on wives being “obedient” to their husbands. This section is titled “How to Win Your Lost Husband,” and begins by quoting a...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Speak No Evil of Anyone, Ever
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 238—240 This section, titled “Another Kind of Anger,” is kind of all over the place. Remember that last week Debi told her readers that men are prone to sudden anger...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Don’t Sympathize with Your Husband
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 240—241 In this passage we learn that being sympathetic is a bad thing. But we’ll get to that in a moment. The Wife Does Make a Difference I once knew a young man who...
View ArticleCTBHHM: Sweet Little Teresa’s Story
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 241—242 Remember that we are still in the chapter on obedience to one’s husband. In this section, Debi uses the story of “sweet little Teresa” to discuss hopeless cases...
View ArticleCTBHHM: In Which Debi Further Confuses Poor Sue Ann
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 243—245 Now we come to a section titled “Three Key Issues: Remarriage, Birth Control, and Head Coverings). Remember that we are still in the chapter on being obedient...
View ArticleCTBHHM: The Question of Birth Control
Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 247—248 Debi starts this section with a letter: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pearl, Our family is in despair. I have stood on the promises of God against all counsel, and it...
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