Can you find anywhere where he says this and show me? I don't believe I've heard him say this anywhere, although I haven't read or heard everything he has said by a long shot.
I haven't forgotten your question. I posted on this thread the following ideas from Dieda:
1. The man’s primary purpose is pursuit of his main objective, be that career, a hobby, the arts, whatever. 2. The woman is the inspiration for the man’s primary purpose. 3. The man’s responsibility is to share gifts with his woman that he achieves through pursuit of his primary purpose. 4. The woman’s primary purpose is the relationship.
These are my summaries from his book, though he goes over a lot more than this. He does not explicitly state these things. You have to pull the meaning out of his sometimes flowery writing.
I did look through the book last night, trying to find specific pages to support those items 1-4. For item 1) I found Chapter 7, p 27: "Your mission is your priority. Unless you know your mission and have aligned your life to it, your core will feel empty. Your presence in the world will be weakened, as will your presence with your intimate partner."
I will try to look some more to cite where I get items 2-4.
