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Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

#24: The Strong-Willed Woman (Re-Air)

Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex

Authentic Intimacy®

Relationships, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

How many times has a confident, opinionated woman who speaks her mind been labeled something that was far less than flattering? Strength and conviction are always thought of as noble traits for a man, but why not for a woman? Author and former police officer, Cynthia Tobias explains the differences of a strong-willed women with God, and one without Him.

Guest: Cynthia Tobias

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In a marriage, I think a strong-willed woman is great, mainly because my husband is married to one.

0:07.0

He is secure enough to handle it, too.

0:09.0

I think it takes security in a man to handle a strong-willed woman, and I think a strong-willed woman needs to know when she's being witchy,

0:17.0

and when she's being confident and intelligent, and being a helpmate at the same time.

0:23.0

I think it depends on the man. My husband, I don't think, thinks twice about it because I think

0:28.2

he's pretty confident. So I think that's their problem. And I think we need to stop caring

0:33.4

like what they think about it. I mean, my husband and I have our own business.

0:38.1

Nobody would say to him, oh, you're so strong willed to have your own business,

0:42.6

but yet they would say it to me.

0:44.2

Like, why?

0:45.7

I mean, this is an interesting conversation, but why?

0:49.4

I just do what I need to do to get through life to be successful in life.

0:53.2

I took a test one time at this place I worked in one of those personality type tests.

1:00.0

And but what they said, well, now we noticed that, you know, we asked you questions like if you're not,

1:05.9

if things aren't going according to your plan, the label they had for me there was dictatorial

1:12.1

steamroller which I thought well now that I think about it that's exactly

1:18.1

true I do turn into a dictatorial steamroller when I think my way is the

1:24.7

right way why can't the rest you people see it like this? I'm just going to go

1:28.5

smash on through whatever needs doing and I'm going to get it done. And you know what? Sometimes

1:34.7

my plan was not the right way to do it and then I have to live with the consequences of that.

1:42.3

Well, those are some strong-willed women. I'm wondering if we have any of those sitting around the table here. Linda, are you strong-willed? Absolutely not. You liar. I'll ask Jody what he thinks. Yeah. And I know we have another woman who's strong-willed because you've written a book about it. Cynthia Tobias. That's right yourself as strong will? Absolutely, proudly so. But strong will in the right way, which we'll talk about, I'm sure in a minute. All right, and you're so strong-willed that I just have to tell people, because I think this is so cool that you're a police officer. You were, you're not anymore. And you have to be strong willed to be a police officer, right?

2:18.4

Right. And I think you know this, especially Julie, but there's a big difference between a

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