It was suggested to me yesterday that I needed to read Wild at Heart and give some thought to sympathizing more with men. So I bought a copy, but I feel a tremendous aversion for this project. Because:
1. This might only make me think relationships are too difficult & I should keep my easy one.
2. Men would never read such a book about women and don't put much effort into understanding the soul of women. (okay, the fact that I just typed that suggests why I have this reading project to begin with).
3. It's not fiction.
4. The assumptions in the book made me feel like men are soooo broken and sad. I want them to be strong and good and brave.
Regardless of hesitations, I'm generally told I should work towards being captivating and not so much being wild. We'll see how it goes...
1. This might only make me think relationships are too difficult & I should keep my easy one.
2. Men would never read such a book about women and don't put much effort into understanding the soul of women. (okay, the fact that I just typed that suggests why I have this reading project to begin with).
3. It's not fiction.
4. The assumptions in the book made me feel like men are soooo broken and sad. I want them to be strong and good and brave.
Regardless of hesitations, I'm generally told I should work towards being captivating and not so much being wild. We'll see how it goes...
6 comments:
your posts are so elegant, friend. finely crafted utterances, reflecting thought and deep places. challenging words -- putting down the guns... :)
It is a seriously foreign concept to me that men have there hurts too. I live believing that they are impenetrable. I’ve learned that I’m wrong. Those are my issues. ; )
Men have about as much a clue as we do. Be yourself...and let them too. Like the jazz song says, "Love is....but it's beautiful."
it was suggested to me too that i read this book calling men to their rugged wildness, so i did and received the pursuit of a man who was inspired from that very book to walk forward into his strength. and ironically, even though i do not consider myself a dr.laura fan, reading the excerpts of conversations with men in her "proper care and feeding of husbands" has given me more insight into men and their feelings. good courage as you enter the pages unarmed.
It's such a good book. It teaches me that to be a man, I need to, uh, watch some real manly movies like Gladiator.
so, did you read it?
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