Email of the Day

Dear Dr. Laura:

I'm disgusted with women who've made it a mission to destroy all manliness in men while simultaneously whining about what deadbeats they are. My husband is not one of those men.  Sure, he comes home stinky and dirty every day, expecting me to wash his clothes and clean the grimy shower.  He spends time playing with his old trucks (and he has too many of them), and while I'm making dinner and doing dishes, he's on Craigslist looking for more trucks.  Most of the time he doesn't even say thank you. I used to grumble about all these offenses and how hard it is to be married to such an insensitive man.  Poor me!

Then I began listening to your callers complaining about their men who cheat, abuse, neglect and disrespect them.  Now I gladly wash my husband's dirty clothes in the new washer and dryer he bought me, and clean the grimy shower in the nice home he works so hard to pay for.  If he wants an after-dinner snack because he's hungry again after a hectic day where he wasn't able to sit down and eat, I happily wipe the granite counters and load dishes into the fancy dishwasher he wore himself out to give me.  Then I rub his tired feet and I climb into bed with this man who comes home to me every night, and I thank the Lord for his rough yet gentle calloused hands.  I now understand he's exhausted and isn't likely to clean up after himself because he is a MAN - a real man who provides best for his family.  I've never had to worry if we'd have food to eat or a roof over our heads, because my man would die before he would let us go without.  Thank you for helping me see I picked a real MAN.

Karen