How to Survive Your Parents

the evil that she needs to see in a man in order to feel the "security" of being superior to it. A selfish ego that cannot win power through seduction must settle for the satisfaction of judgment-the sense of self-righteousness that the slave of a vicious master enjoys. For many, the only way to glory is through the role of a tortured, brutalized slave. If a woman's ego cannot use a man one way, it will use him in another. Believe me when I say, "weakness is the handmaiden of wickedness."
    Are you a frustrated, angry woman living with seductive Mr. Right? Then you know what it is like to live in a man's shoes, which hopefully will awaken in you a modicum of compassion for your poor victim. That through our sins we change roles may be God's way of helping us understand the sufferings of others. Judgment of and seething contempt for your parents can infect you with your parents' nature. Watch out for evidence of this in your conduct with your children.
     To have a man cater to her every whim makes a woman feel so good, that it can be convenient for her to believe she is in love with this Mr Nice. Perhaps you used an available Mr. Nice to escape from an intolerable home life. If so, you have plenty of company. Perhaps you lost yourself in a Mr. Nice to escape the guilt and inferiority you felt because of hatred for a "Mr. Violent" -your father. Oh, yes, deep down you may have really wanted a good man, but you were so fearful of being dominated (even by a good man) that you were overwhelmed and taken in by "Mr. Meek and Mild." While you were. cowering before your mean father and hating him, you were becoming like him inside. This is something that is hard to face, but you will see it revealed in a relationship with

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