![]() If that’s where Helen went with her ideas, she’d have no argument from me. We trust our partners with a vulnerable heart, and being attacked by him or her would be painful. I understand that when your spouse ridicules you it’s a lot harder to swallow than when a colleague does it. But that is, in fact, what Helen spends her entire chapter arguing– that all man are, in fact, this immature, and are incapable of growing beyond it. Granted, I’m a woman, but I’d have to be a real “man-hater” to believe that all men were incapable of tolerating any sort of ridicule whatsoever. The most painful experience of my life? Completely unendurable? Uhm. It was infuriating at times, and there were days when I drove home from work literally screaming in frustration (yes, I’m that dramatic). I’m going to be honest and say that, in grad school, I had to deal with a woman who belittled me in front of our peers pretty consistently– and it was worse than just distasteful. ![]() ![]() As members of the human race, I’m sure most of us can attest to the unpleasantness of being belittled and ridiculed. ![]()
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