The Surrendered Wife
A Practical Guide To Finding Intimacy, Passion and Peace
Introduction
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult;
our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest
worth making to find a comrade through whose steady
presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-- ANNA LOUISE STRONG
WHY WOULD A WOMAN SURRENDER?
When I was newly married at twenty-two, I had no idea I would ever call myself a surrendered wife. At that time, the very phrase would have repulsed me.
I did know that marriage was risky because I had watched my parents go through a brutal divorce. Still, I was hopeful that I could do better. I was amazed that my husband, John, could love me as much as he did, and part of me believed we could make our marriage work simply because it was born of so much goodness.
At first our marriage was blissful. Then, I started to see John's imperfections more glaringly, and I began correcting him. It was my way of helping him to improve. From my point of view, if he would just be more ambitious at work, more ... read full excerpt from: Surrendered Wife: Lessons for True Intimacy with a Man ebook
