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One of the verses that I am struck with concerning this issue is Gen. 3:16. When speaking to Adam and Eve after they ate of the forbidden fruit, God says to the woman, "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; AND THY DESIRE SHALL BE TO THY HUSBAND, AND HE SHALL RULE OVER THEE." One very important thing I was taught concerning how to read the Bible is that whenever you see the word SHALL, that it is a command.......not a suggestion, not an idea, but a command, a directive, so to speak. I was also taught that SHALL always means just that....SHALL, not maybe , not might, not if, but SHALL.   

One of these commands and promises that comes to mind containing the word shall is in Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein, for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." What this means to me is that if we read God’s word and do what it says, we WILL have good success, of course, this would not be the same success the world affords to people, but GOD’S success and blessings. It is not a suggestion, it does not say, "If you read the Bible and follow it’s suggestions, you MIGHT have success, it says, "THOU SHALT HAVE GOOD SUCCESS".

Am I , as a Christian woman, living in an age that is so far removed from the cross, that I forget that these commands in the Bible are STILL for me today? Am I so rebellious, that I will pick and choose WHICH of the commandments of God I will obey? Can I ignore direct commands of God? Can I arbitrarily decide which of these commandments to follow in my daily life? Should I only choose to follow the great commission in Matt. 1:28, "GO, ye into all the world....", and leave out Gen.3:16b "Thy desire SHALL be to thy husband"? or respect what the Bible says in Ex 20:3, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me?" yet disrespect Eph.5:22, "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord"?

There ARE men that are emotional. I am using emotional here in the sense of tender-hearted, spontaneous, excitable, even exciting, and although I hesitate to use this terminology, men that seem to have "female type" qualities.   

I, however, need a woman to bond with.    Some of us do not have that one woman we can confide in or share things with. My premise for this entire theory is that we as women do not gather in groups or with other women in today’s society This void leaves us longing, yearning and looking for someone with the same type of emotions we have to share things with. Enter another man with these tendencies and you have trouble. Especially if you husband at home is just being a man...someone with different emotions than we have, and since they are different emotions, we think he does not care when he does not respond to us in an emotional way. His response is generally logical and annoying to us emotional females.

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