Why hello there gorgeous. I hope you're having a wonderful day so far. Welcome to the Dr. Daph show. I'm your host Dr. Michelle Duff and I'm so grateful that you're here

with me today as we're talking about femininity in terms of you being a feminine wife and we're reading out of the book Fascinating Womanhood how the ideal woman

awakens a man's deepest love and tenderness by Helen Andolin.

We're talking today about the man being the provider in a marriage

and how his role as a provider lends itself to you being in your feminine. Now obviously in this world we have you

know a lot of changes since this book has been written and many women cannot afford to allow their

man to be the sole provider. It's nothing for you to beat yourself up about or

to feel less than I don't want you to feel like you are somehow

missing out on something because you also bring income in for the home. Things are

different now and unfortunately most households do require two people to work, but you know there can be changes and accommodations and things can be done in a way where either things shift and maybe you have to move or spend differently or downsize in order to have that dynamic or you take the time as a woman to

understand your role to understand his roles understand how the dynamics of a man being a provider

affects the relationship and find ways to ensure that that balance still stays that way

in other aspects of your marriage. It does

take you taking time to think, to reflect, to pray, to ask questions, to watch him to intentionally say I understand that I can't control this part

right now so I'm going to do what I can. It's all about just having the knowledge and using that knowledge to implement it

into your life and that is what we call wisdom. You taking whatever you've learned,

whatever you know to be true, whatever God's word says, and talking to God

and getting wisdom from Him on how you can make this relevant for your situation, how you can see fruit in your situation

even though your situation may not be God's original design in this case as the

man being the full provider.

There is a reason why God gave the man that role

and there is something tied into men

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