{"id":25964,"date":"2010-12-02T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25964"},"modified":"2010-12-02T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T01:08:35","slug":"what-do-men-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25964","title":{"rendered":"What Do Men Want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Wednesday, Dennis Prager said: A man needs most from a woman in a relationship is to be admired. Not loved. You love a puppy, but you don&#8217;t admire a puppy. You love your children, but you may or may not admire your children.<\/p>\n<p>The reason the denial of sex is so terrible to a man is not primarily the biological deprivation, but he translates it in his mind as a lack of taking him seriously, a lack of admiration and love. <\/p>\n<p>There is really only one thing that can not be overcome by most men in a marriage &#8212; being held in contempt by his wife.<\/p>\n<p>My father was married to my mother for 69 years, 73 years together. Always, it was a sort of mantra that my father would say, &#8216;Your mother puts me on a pedestal. That&#8217;s what every woman needs to do for her man.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show Wednesday, Dennis Prager said: A man needs most from a woman in a relationship is to be admired. Not loved. You love a puppy, but you don&#8217;t admire a puppy. You love your children, but you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=25964\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,4,619,28],"tags":[29761,9927,1453,635],"class_list":["post-25964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-dennis-prager","category-marriage","category-sex","tag-dennis-prager","tag-puppy","tag-radio-show","tag-relationship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25969,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25964\/revisions\/25969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}