Chapter Five
Why This Man?
I tried submitting to my first husband. I was doing so based on the Christian view that the man is head of the household and what he says goes. I am even seminary-trained, and studied the New Testament in the original Koine Greek. I attended a conservative seminary which did not allow women to run the show. Any show. I was even told by my seminary mentor that when I was in a study group with men, I should pretend I had no ideas of my own and let them make the decisions. I tried to follow. I tried to understand. I tried to agree. I tried to submit to my first husband. All he did was take advantage of me. Who wants to submit to a person who only thinks of their own well-being? So I got pissed, really pissed. The simple truth is that I didn’t respect him. How are
