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  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Have the rules of courtship changed over the years?

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But what I was objecting to originally was the claim that "women need to feel captivating." The PP didn't make any distinction there between married or single women, but simply posited that this was a basic psychological need of women.

Not only do I disagree that "women need to feel captivating," but I'm suggesting that that's a pretty damaging belief to hold.

But as a married woman, I'll put it out there: I don't need to feel captivating, I don't want a husband who's all starry-eyed and captivated, and I resent the kind of stereotypes that suggest that all women do, because they relegate us to somewhere near the level of maturity of a Disney princess (and not the better ones).
 
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I will throw out this proverb for discussion regarding within marriage:

Proverbs 5
15 Drink water from your own cistern,
And running water from your own well.
16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only your own,
And not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe,
Let her breasts satisfy you at all times;
And always be enraptured with her love
 
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