Listen "Episode 13.3: Knights of the Not-Round Tables"
Episode Synopsis
Finally at the end of this terrible book, Christa and Sarah tackle COUPLE - Eggerichs’ theory of what all women need from men. Not surprising, Eggerichs’ men struggle with providing their spouses with basic human needs, like openness and loyalty, because. well, men, but Eggerichs is here to save their marriages one acronym and anecdote at a time.
Eggerichs reveals some disturbing insights about how ‘men’ tend to view women - controlling, contemptuous, vexatious - but that by overriding these ideas and occasionally giving wives a hug or a birthday card, they too can have successful marriages free of conflict (without turning ‘pink’). Christa and Sarah note that in the evangelical structure set out by Eggerichs, husbands freely receive all of the COUPLE benefits oozing ‘naturally’ from wives (closeness, openness, understanding, peacemaking, loyalty, esteem) in addition to their CHAIRS (conquest, hierarchy, authority, insight, relationship, sexuality) whilst wives struggle to get basic needs met…with no extra bells or whistles.
Eggerichs reveals some disturbing insights about how ‘men’ tend to view women - controlling, contemptuous, vexatious - but that by overriding these ideas and occasionally giving wives a hug or a birthday card, they too can have successful marriages free of conflict (without turning ‘pink’). Christa and Sarah note that in the evangelical structure set out by Eggerichs, husbands freely receive all of the COUPLE benefits oozing ‘naturally’ from wives (closeness, openness, understanding, peacemaking, loyalty, esteem) in addition to their CHAIRS (conquest, hierarchy, authority, insight, relationship, sexuality) whilst wives struggle to get basic needs met…with no extra bells or whistles.
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