Posted on 03/12/2008 4:55:51 AM PDT by ciocia
Dr. Laura Schlessinger has never been one to shrink from controversy, and she leaped headlong into one on Monday when she said that if a husband cheats, his wife may share some of the blame.
“When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible to the charm of some other woman making him feel what he needs,” the popular psychologist and radio personality said.
More commonly known as just “Dr. Laura,” Schlessinger made the remarks while participating in one of several panel discussions on TODAY dealing with the breaking news that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been connected to a high-priced prostitution ring.
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OR....if your husband says you don’t look good in something...CHANGE THE OUTFIT...you married him..you thought he had good taste when he chose you...I don’t understand women who get so upset when their men tell them the truth. I mean, LOOK IN THE GODDAMN MIRROR...You know what you look like. Sometimes I think I’m the only sane woman on this planet.... :)
Lord_Balter...Dr. Laura has done more to carry the conservative word to the mind-numbed liberal Oprah daytime viewers than any other person in the media. She constantly shows how liberalism is wrong, sticks up for the military when nobody else will...stands up for families AND the unborn. Her success is testimony that people are longing to hear that message. If that message has to come from a shrill voice, so be it...it’s working, and if you truly are a Conservative, you should be happy she’s doing what she’s doing.
I wouldn't go limiting it to just one planet ;-) Good comment. But I think my suggestion puts more fun in the relationship.
Here is the video from a link on Dr. Laura’s site
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23573159#23573159
Hildy the authority on families. What were you 40 when you finally got married Hildy?
I think you’re sane.
I also think I’m sane, just different :)
But are you truly happy?
“Men are simple creatures...if women got that, there would be alot more happy couples.”
Gee, you’re no so bad after all. I need to hook you up with my wife. : )
I am happier now that I was 10 years ago, for sure much happier than I was 15 years ago and far far happier than I was when I was a child.
And I’m free. Best happy maker in the world.
It may be a crock to the %.5 of males who have mental problems, but there are a helluva lot woman out there who do not think sex is necessary. For what ever their reason, if they don’t want to give up the lovin’, man will go get it else where....
Your reasoning is so sound, I dont think anyone could argue with "LOL" and "crock". Your argument skills are beyond belief. I'm stunned!
But here comes the personal attacks...I'm surprised it took this long. People always get angry when you hold a mirror up to them. BTW, I don't want to get into a personal fight with you. We all have our personal experiences to draw on. All I'm saying is that I know that what I do works...and I'm happy, I know alot of unhappy people and the common thread amongst them is that they don't realize the only thing they have control over is their own behavior and their own choices. And there's nothing wrong with doing something just because it will make someone else happy. You couldn't POSSIBLY disagree with that, right?
Hildy I have one of the best marriages I have ever known of. I do things for my husband because I want to, not because he expects anything from me. I don’t need you holding a mirror to me on anything - I wouldn’t trade my life with my wonderful husband and my children for anyone or anything.
well, that’s terrific! So I guess you just felt the need to chime in to insult me...ok then.
As I said before, marrying late in life and not having children does not exactly make your opinions worth much to those who have been married awhile and have raised children. We’ve experienced growing older together and hurdling the situations that raising children bring up.
You asked me if I was happy, as if where I am now isn’t good enough.....as if I’m not good enough as I am.
From my perspective this is the best point in my life..... there are no (OK, a few...a day here, a week there) points in time that I long for, no good ole days that I would want to relive or return to...
There are a few people who’ve passed on that I miss, first husband, grandparents....but....the person I was as recently as 5 years ago I never want to see again.
Not everyone is happy following the same path or doing the same things. Your heaven would be someone else’s hell. That is what we’ve been trying to say.
This comment is really quite insulting to men. Dr. Laura is saying that men are so unable to control themselves that if their wife isn’t meeting whatever sexual desire the man has, the man has no choice but to have an affair or hire a whore. According to Dr. Laura, men are incapable of 1) working through the problem in a loving and mature way with their wife, 2) accepting that you can’t always have everything you want in the world and/or 3) taking your marriage vows seriously come what may. Dr. Laura has cleverly wrapped her man-hating ideas in woman-bashing rhetoric and fooled a lot of people along the way.
Here’s the difference...I’m talking in generalizations about the differences between men and women...Of course everyone’s experiences are different. But there are some things that are pretty universal. I wish every woman could know true love...The topic of this thread was Dr. Laura trying to get women to take responsibility for their lousy relationships, somethng women don’t like to do. That’s all.
Maybe Spitzer’s taste for sexual activities that might not seem safe, had something to do with his lack of sexual satisfaction in his marriage.
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