Bear with me. My comments are long-winded. (Long enough to be an article.)
I once heard a story about a woman who suffered years of physical and mental abuse from her husband and it started on their wedding night. On their honeymoon? Can you imagine? Yet she stayed with that man and after several years he agreed to go to marriage counseling with his wife. They worked things out and stayed together.
Then there’s the story of the burning bed. It’s an old story. The wife gets tired of being beaten up. She drugs her husband to put him asleep and while he’s knocked out laying in the bed, she sets the bed on fire and leaves! Guess you could say she worked things out.
What’s my point? My point is that when it comes to a marriage, that’s the couple’s business. What they teach their children by their words or their deeds or both, that’s their business. If they want to share their business with the public by telling their story, that’s they’re business too!
Perhaps the people who shared the story thought that sharing a real-life event could serve as an example for others to follow if they want to.
The story is not about feminism or chauvinism or anything political.
It’s personal and it’s about keeping a marriage and a family together.
There is a statistic that about 45% of marriages in the USA, end in divorce.
https://www.mckinleyirvin.com/family-law-blog/2012/october/32-shocking-divorce-statistics/
The top 3 reasons for divorce are lack of commitment, infidelity, and conflict or arguing.
https://www.mckinleyirvin.com/family-law-blog/2012/october/32-shocking-divorce-statistics/
Let’s explore.
~ Clearly the husband is committed to the relationship. He ate burned biscuits.
~ Infidelity? He was at home eating dinner when he could have been laying up in someone else’s bed eating honey.
~ Conflict and arguing? Burned biscuits ain’t nothing to fight about it. (Sigh.) Don’t start nothing. Won’t be nothing.
As for not helping a woman after a hard day? Believe or not. In the 21st century, with working wives and mothers, there are still some women who don’t like anybody else messing around in their kitchen! But that fact, no doubt along with loads of other facts, was not disclosed in the storytelling because they were probably considered irrelevant to the point that was being made.
The point of the story was: “Son. I love your mother and she loves me. I’m going to do everything I can to keep it that way!”
