My wife is not weak. She is meek.

But that word, meek, has many meanings, so I want to be specific.

(After all, Jesus Christ and Moses were both described as meek... )

I heard "meek" defined once as "Power under control."

This describes my wife. It is not that she HAS to be submissive, it is that she chooses to be. We are talking about a woman who has an advanced degree, who lived under conditions that would break most Americans, and who -- on more than one occasion -- fought off muggers and would-be rapists. (She tells me that Kherson is one of the most dangerous cities in Ukraine...)

Also, a little tidbit I discovered, she can field-dress and reassmble an AK-47 in under 20 seconds! (Aren't Soviet schools wonderful? They teach the classics! )

She is NOT weak.

But she likes the fact that I am the head of the household, and I that assume these responsibilities. (Most of the time :-) Let's face it, she won’t ALWAYS like it.)

She doesn't expect me to do household chores. (She was surprised once when I went to refill my coffee. She told me a story of one time when she was married before. She made some stew and put it in the refrigerator for her husband, and then went to visit her father -- who lived five minutes away. She came home three hours later to find her husband was angry with her. "I was starving!" he told her. "But you had stew in the refrigerator!" she told him. "And no one to heat it up!" was his reply.)

She does expect me to provide, and take care of the "head of the house" duties. Mainly, that has meant being arbiter in the children's disputes.

There are other things she expects, but these are the kind of things that I hardly consider a duty :-)

But I CERTAINLY wouldn't say that she is weak. And, I also would not say that she even pretends to be weak.

She is a strong woman, who has chosen to be submissive. There is a world of difference between that and being weak...

FWIW

How about that? You think the marriage agencies would keep something like that from us?

Nah...

I have no idea how fast she can do the AK 47 blindfolded. We're inAmerica now. I only have M16s here ;-)

It was funny when she told me that. She was telling me about how she was going to help my daughter in school (she's in 3rd grade.)

I told Victoria: "I don't know... this subject is really hard for her, and she gets discouraged."

And she says: "It doesn't matter. It is like when I was in school. I had a very difficult time taking apart the gun..." and then she relates this story. All the while I am looking at her long painted fingernails and I'm thinking: "She field-dressed an AK-47 in HOW long?!?"

BTW, the soviets also taught her how to throw a hand grenade.

So, in the even that our church is not ATF approved, I guess we're set...

But it was viewed VERY differently here in Texas.

Just a bunch of Federal Agency types trying to justify their existence.

Koresh was in town every week. The Sheriff of Waco told the FBI that there was no need to storm the compound, he could simple call him and tell him to come in for a meeting, and he would.

But they had to rush the compound in their "own peculiar idiom" as John Cleese says in The Holy Grail.

There... how's that for obscure references :-)

DM would be pround :-)

Stumped me.

Damn, I hate it when that happens!

He referred to the youngsters south of Del Rio - they be Mexicanos.

Que pasa?

My contribution was to assume that you meant Del Rio, Texas.  I see now that there is a Del Rio, California.

Do you also have a Cut-N-Shoot?  :-)

If the "BURKE" of your persona is a reference to Edmund, then I understand your fondness for aesthetic obscurity.

Are you a Royalist as well?  :-)