“Feminism made women too picky”: more on male rage, sexual entitlement, and backlash

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6. A successful relationship is a partnership of equals

And I'm not sure that "need" enters into it on the part of either party. If I realistically sat down and analyzed why my wife "needs" me, the only thing I could probably come up with was to open the pickle jar.

But I'd like to think that we are together because each of us enhances the existence of the other, that somehow the sum is greater than the parts, that our lives are improved because we are together. Admittedly there have been times, in a 50 year marriage when one or the other of us has questioned whether or not that was really the case, but overall I believe the relationship has been mutually beneficial.

And among our circle of family and friends I'd have to say I can pick out three or four couples whose relationships are based on the concept of a partnership, but there are many more where the woman has subordinated her own human potential to massage her partner's male ego, sometimes to the financial detriment of both parties.

Every human being likes to feel needed. Perhaps even needs to feel needed in a way. But nobody should need to feel like they must control another person.