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I agree. Just being silent and robotic is not helpful. You don't want to sacrifice your contribution to just act like a limp ragdoll, even as you try to be respectful.

I'm not sure you need feminism for this. In the past, women did work heavy labor jobs if their husbands needed it to survive. They worked these horrible cotton mills during the Industrial Revolution, for example. Small children did too. But the fact that men did not see this as ideal was not...

The willingness to defend her is reassuring and does you credit. In a marriage, this promotes unity. The fact that you view marriage as a way to move forward with purpose in your life and not a search for a perfect person is a great way to see things. She wavered in her resolve with the ring...

This is what I was looking for. Its okay to have flaws and not be this perfect relationship candidate if you are willing to work on yourself. I certainly wasn't.

I guess once you get saved, God chains you to that salvation somehow. It's just not biblical

If grace is not teaching us to deny ungodliness, it's not grace (Titus 2:11-12).

Well said. Thank you!

How To Know If You Are Submitting In God's Strength or Your Own "We may be very discouraged because our husband isn’t changing and isn’t loving us the way we want to be loved. If I am doing this in my own power, my goal is probably to get my husband to change, not to allow God to radically...

Biblical Submission Is Not Passivity

Also, if she is being this emotional and impulsive now, how does she intend to work on this in the future? Does she want to? I don't know her side of things but I can't see an upside to taking the ring off in a heated moment. Don't let the fear of being alone drive you to settle. I see a red...

I feel like some context is missing. Why do you believe you and her would make a good lifelong match, besides the time and effort invested in the relationship?