The Book Tag

Filed under: Entertainment — Eman at 1:01 pm on Saturday, December 16, 2006

I’ve been tagged by my husband, and now I should grab the closest book to me, open page 123, scroll down to the 5th sentence, post the next 3 sentences on my blog, name the book and author, then tag 3 people.

Here we go…
“Like many men, Bill made the mistake of trying to prevent his partner from “going down” or “bottoming out”. He tried to rescue her by pulling her up. He had not learned that when his wife was going down she needed to hit bottom before she could come up”.
- Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, by John Gray.

As for tagging others, I believe the tag has been around for a while now and so there’s no point in double-tagging.

3 Comments »

Comment by kinzi

December 18, 2006 @ 11:50 am

Eman, how on target do you feel John Grey’s concepts are for a Muslim marriage? I’ve always wondered if his views cross-cultures (or solar systems :).

Comment by Eman

December 19, 2006 @ 5:48 pm

Well, I guess we should differentiate between a Muslim marriage and a “traditional” one.
Of course both the Muslim and traditional are somehow off track when it comes to the sex-related concepts but when it comes to the base relationship and the way they should be understanding and caring and forgiving, both supporting each other and no one envying or standing in the way of the other, then I believe those concepts apply to the Muslim marriage, and do not completely apply to the traditional one where the man is portrayed as the decision maker and the powerful part, whom woman should serve and obey.

Comment by kinzi

December 21, 2006 @ 2:53 pm

Thanks for the insight!

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