{"id":40975,"date":"2012-02-24T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40975"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:33:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T22:33:27","slug":"do-you-want-to-control-your-spouses-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40975","title":{"rendered":"Do You Want To Control Your Spouse’s Thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “The greatest Jewish philosopher and legalist, Maimonides, said that a Jew should never say, pig, eww, it’s disgusting. Rather, a Jew should say a pig sounds delicious, but God says no.<\/p>\n

“Bacon smells good but I don’t eat it.<\/p>\n

“I’m worried about spouses who want to control the other’s thoughts. If you wish to control your thoughts because you believe God wants you to, that I respect. But I don’t want to be married to anyone who tells me what to think. I want to be married to somebody who expects certain behavior from me, as I would of her, but I don’t tell my wife what to think and I don’t want her telling me what to think. <\/p>\n

“I fight totalitarianism in the world and I don’t want totalitarianism in my marriage. ‘Honey, I don’t like the way you are thinking about that woman.’ Holy. I don’t want to go home. <\/p>\n

“Do I treat you lovingly? Then let my thoughts be, honey.”<\/p>\n

“I love liberty, love, and fidelity. They can all be balanced.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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