Balto: I imagine her writing the words "wifely responsibilities" with a derisive sneer on her face. This is a big issue for her. This is where I think she refuses to see me as anything more than an icon of male domination over females, and that it's her responsibility to resist resist resist. This is the line where, to her, she can finally prove to herself that the feminist dogma she's been reading and regurgitating all these years, finally comes into practice. She is a sister, and all her sisters are watching her, nodding their heads approvingly. She may already see that success will come either in my total submission, or a divorce decree that she can show to her sisters as proof that males only see females as life support systems for vaginas.
That's harsh, but I think this is a large contribution to the current impasse. Oh sure, there's also the safety she feels in not opening herself up, both physically and emotionally, to another person. But it's all tied together in the gordian knot of feminism (and, to those who consider themselves feminists, you know that the kind of feminism I'm talking about here bears no more resemblance to real feminism, then your shoe collection bears to that of Imelda Marcos).
I'm seeing my Counselor this afternoon, and he has been earning his keep lately, during this time of crisis.
