{"id":17694,"date":"2010-03-12T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T02:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17694"},"modified":"2010-03-12T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T02:10:03","slug":"blazing-a-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17694","title":{"rendered":"Blazing A Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think most women grow up believing that they will find a man who will take care of the big things in life for them. A man who will blaze a trail ahead of her, a man who will provide and protect.<\/p>\n<p>Now I keep seeing women reduced to tears as they realize that either they have no man to take care of them, or the man they are with is not going to take care of them. So they have to deal with a lot of messy things in life that they would rather ignore.<\/p>\n<p>There are all sorts of tasks in life such as buying a car etc that the average woman does not want to do. 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