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TITLE: 'Cause I'm a Woman | Previous Challenge Entry
By Tina Fisher
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And while it may be true that as a woman, I can bring it home and fry it up in a pan...I think sometimes we forget how to help men feel like a man.
Last week, my ex-husband came to visit. We don’t often see each other anymore because he lives far away in Wisconsin.
We are still good friends who can sometimes communicate well, and at other times, not so much.
For the most part, it was a good visit, but on the drive to Austin to drop him off, he said something that has really stayed with me this week.
"I always felt like such a loser."
Ouch.
The 750 word count limit prevents me from going into the history of this relationship, but I will sum it up by saying, we never really knew how to help each other.
I was ambitious. He was not.
When the going got tough, he just got going.
It did not end the way I had hoped or expected it to, and eventually we finally divorced.
Now, after being single again for nearly 15 years, I'd like to think that I've learned a little bit about relationships and being a woman.
And I have some regrets.
As far back as I can remember, I strongly adhered to the "I am woman hear me roar” philosophy.
I was independent, strong, sassy and capable of doing stuff myself.
These days, I am barely capable of a quiet whisper, let alone a roar.
I never intended to become the Proverbs 27 annoying woman who is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm.
And yet it is who I became.
My mother always told me, “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”
I have ‘rightly’ messed up many things.
If you look up the words ‘control freak’ in the dictionary, you will read my name.
Nothing ever seemed good enough.
The final night we spent together as a married couple, I acted and said things that were really, really nasty. It was one of those banner arguments that escalated into yelling, extreme hand gestures and supreme hissy fit throwing.
And it is a bad memory that I will have etched in my mind forever.
And so I offer this word of advice to married women everywhere, “Honor your husband.”
Tell him, “Thank you for taking out the trash.”
Tell him, “Thank you for providing for the family.”
And quietly whisper, “Thank you for choosing me to share your life with.”
Even when he doesn’t notice the new haircut or the house you have been cleaning all day long.
Do it all unto to the Lord. And show Him honor.
I absolutely intend to be a Proverbs 31 woman someday.
She too was very independent, strong and capable.
I believe she was also probably a little sassy.
A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
And boy! That girl can get things sizzling in the kitchen.
‘Things’ being bacon, of course!
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