• Relinquishes inappropriate control of her husband
• Respects her husband's thinking
• Receives his gifts graciously and expresses gratitude for him
• Expresses what she wants without trying to control him
• Relies on him to handle household finances
• Focuses on her own self-care and fulfillment
A surrendered wife is:
• Vulnerable where she used to be a nag
• Trusting where she used to be controlling
• Respectful where she used to be demeaning
• Grateful where she used to be dissatisfied
• Has faith where she once had doubt." --Laura Doyle
A surrendered wife gets on her knees, picks up her husband's slippers with her teeth, and drops them at his feet. This makes her feel loved and fulfilled. They shoot lame horses ... what do they do for lame brains???
Jonathan Carroll's web site (see the right side of the page or just use this one). Some of his stories are printed there under "Exclusives", so you can get a taste of how fabulously surreal and wonderful his work is. It's like nothing you have ever read ... unless you have read some Jonathan Carroll.
Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along dubious friends: doubt, jealousy, greed. Together they take over; rearrange the furniture in every one of your rooms for their own comfort. They speak odd languages but make no attempt to translate for you. They cook strange meals in your heart that leave odd tastes and smells. When they finally go are you happy or miserable? Patience is always left holding the broom.
This is a Game of Thrones CCG post. Now then, last night we were all at Greg's doing our demo. I played two three-player games. I won the first game. In the second game, a guy named John had run out my entire deck with Heads On Pikes, and both he and J were gunning for me. I won. The evil Lannister deck has won 16 times in a row. The probability freak inside my husband (does every engineer have a little probability freak inside him, waiting to get out?) is going haywire. How can one deck win *sixteen times* in a row??? And, for those who have not been following ... HE made the deck!
So I sez to him, I sez, "You want to beat your wife, but you can't. Which is all for the best, because wife-beating is really white trash, don't you think?" He was, to his credit, amused. He is now trying to hire someone to beat his wife.
"His most successful books and tales defy genre categorisation. They've more life, more balls, are more true than pretty much anything else you'll encounter out there. They call some fantasies 'Magical Realism' to try and lend them respectability, like a whore who wishes to be known as a lady of the evening. Jonathan Carroll's work, however, has every right to parade under the banner of magical realism, if you have to call it something." -- from Gaiman's introduction to Carroll's web site.
