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Nov. 26, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
04:30
He Will Love Me For Who I Am... Will He?
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On earth, the way God or nature has made us, that is not insignificant.
And all he cares about is who I am.
Well, then my parallel is a man saying, she doesn't care if I'm ambitious or work hard, if I play video games much of the day, but...
She'll love me for who I am.
But nobody says that.
As I said, no man would say something that stupid.
Do you work hard?
Are you responsible?
So, it doesn't have a parallel in the male world.
Men know, by and large, they have to earn a woman's love.
Which is a wonderful thing, by the way.
It is one of the things that has propelled men all through history to achievement, wanting to earn a woman's love.
And keep her love, I might add.
I believe that people have to earn love continuously.
Obviously, if one of the partners falls ill, then clearly...
The love should stay there and the person cannot continue to earn it the way they did prior to the disease.
That's why I believe in moral bank accounts.
If before you got ill, you were a wonderful spouse, then that certainly will help.
You got that moral bank account with your spouse.
But putting that aside, this notion of he will love me for who I am is very naive and is not helpful to young women in finding somebody.
How do you react to what I just said?
Is it offensive?
Is it just common sense?
I think it's just common sense.
But how many young women are told this?
1-8 Prager 776-877-243-7776 The same holds true once married.
since I believe that you continue to earn the love of your spouse, why would you let yourself go now that you have him?
These are tough questions, almost never addressed in our society, because it's a society that wants to deny, number one, any differences between male and number one, any differences between male and female, Wants to deny any significance to women's looks.
It's called sexist.
To emphasize that that has importance.
And anything that emphasizes it is...
Just bigoted and misogynistic and sexist.
So you can't have honest conversations.
Because when honesty is actually engaged in, you are smeared for doing so.
I wrote a two-part column many years ago about The issue of when a wife is not in the mood for physical intimacy, mood should not alone be the determinant.
If you love your husband and he's a good man, mood alone should not be determinant.
On many occasions it might be, but it shouldn't always.
And in Huffington Post, somebody wrote that I was advocating marital rape.
So what they do is they inhibit honest discussion of male-female relations.
Subject today, he will love me for who I am.
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