Independent Competitive Decisive Takes a Stand Aggressive
Active Adventurous Dominant Outspoken Ambitious Self-Confident Meek
Loving Emotional Tactful Considerate Creative Understanding Aware
of others feelings Gentle, Kind Grateful Strong Conscience Devoted
Meek Enjoys Art & Music
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A store that sells husbands has just opened in New York City,
where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at
the entrance is a description of how the store operates. You may
visit the store ONLY ONCE! There are 6 floors and the attributes of
the men increase as the shopper ascends the flights. There is,
however, a catch you may choose any man from a particular floor, or
you may choose to go up a floor, but you cannot go back down except
to exit the building! So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find
a husband. The Husband Store
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On the 1 st floor the sign on the door reads: These men have
jobs and love the Lord. The 2 nd floor sign reads: These men have
jobs, love the Lord, and love kids. The 3 rd floor sign reads:
These men have jobs, love the Lord, love kids, and are extremely
good-looking.
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Wow, she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going. She goes to
the 4 th floor and the sign reads: These men have jobs, love the
Lord, love kids, are drop-dead good looking and help with the
housework. Oh mercy me she exclaims, I can hardly stand it! Still,
she goes to the 5 th floor and the sign reads: These men have jobs,
love the Lord, love kids, are drop-dead gorgeous, help with the
housework, and have a strong romantic streak.
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She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6 th floor and
the sign reads: Floor 6 - you are visitor 4,363,012 to this floor.
There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof
that women are impossible to please. Thank you for shopping at the
Husband Store. Watch your step as you exit the building, and have a
nice day!
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Romance Mathematics Smart man and smart woman = romance Smart
man + dumb woman = affair Dumb man + smart woman = marriage Dumb
man + dumb woman = pregnancy
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Shopping Math A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs. A woman
will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesnt need. General Equations
& Statistics A woman never worries about the future until she
gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets
a wife. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife
can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
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Happiness To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot
and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her
a lot and not try to understand her at all. Memory Any married man
should forget his mistakes, theres no use in two people remembering
the same thing.
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Appearance Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/699866#i1,p4,d1 Propensity To Change A
woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesnt. A man
marries a woman expecting that she wont change, and she does.
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Discussion Techniques A woman has the last word in any
argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new
argument.
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Hooray for the Differences! President Boyd K. Packer said, We
should recognize that there is a distinct masculine nature and a
distinct feminine nature essential to the foundation of the home
and the family. By grand design, male and female are supposed to be
different. Otherwise God would have made Addie and Eve or Adam and
Steve. But then none of us would be here (The Relief Society,
Ensign, May 1998, 72).
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By acknowledging differences and working with and through them,
couples can have very successful marriages. Baggage of Your Own: We
each bring with us the baggage of the past, some of which is good
and some of which needs to be discarded.
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Physical Except Adam and Eve by nature be different from one
another, they could not multiply and fill the earth. The
complementing differences are the very key to the plan of happiness
(Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, Nov. 1993). We are created as men and
women to fit together in such a union. In this ultimate physical
expression of one man and one woman they are nearly as literally
one as two separate physical bodies can ever be (Jeffrey R.
Holland, Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments).
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You were not created to be the same as men. Your natural
attributes, affections, and personalities are entirely different
from a mans. They consist of faithfulness, benevolence, kindness,
and charity. They give you the personality of a woman. They also
balance the more aggressive and competitive nature of a man (Ezra
Taft Benson, TETB, 547-48).
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The business world is competitive and sometimes ruthless. We do
not doubt that women have both the brainpower and skills..to
compete with men. But by competing they must, of necessity become
aggressive and competitive. Thus their godly attributes are
diminished and they acquire a quality of sameness with man (Ezra
Taft Benson, TETB, 548).
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I firmly believe that our dear faithful sisters enjoy a special
spiritual enrichment which is inherent in their natures (James E.
Faust, Ensign, Nov. 1993, 38-39). Women should maintain their
spiritual superiority in marriageShe hasthe opportunity to
encourage, uplift, teach, and be the one who sets the example in
the family for righteous livingPerhaps it is just a mans viewpoint,
but it seems to me that sweetness and spirituality in the home are
often brought about by the conduct of the woman (Howard W. Hunter,
Teachings of Howard W. Hunter, 138-39).
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Camilla Kimball, wife of President Spencer W. Kimball said:
Sometimes I almost feel in the press of your many responsibilities
that I dont matter very much any more. Anyone who thinks being the
wife of one of the general authorities is a bed of roses should try
it once, shouldnt they? Theoretically I realize and appreciate all
the blessings and advantages, but sometimes I selfishly feel it
would be nice to not have to share my husband with a million
others. I do love and appreciate you, dear, and admire your
sterling qualities. I wouldnt have you be one whit less valiant in
the pursuit of your dutybut it is comforting to be reassured once
in a while that you realize I am standing by.. (Camilla E. Kimball,
Camilla, 130).
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Men want to feel trusted, appreciated, admired, approved of,
encouraged, and viewed as competent and needed. In the book,
Spencer W. Kimball, (191) we find this example: When President
Kimball was called as an apostle, he and Camilla and their family
were living in Arizona. The phone call from the First Presidency in
Salt Lake City was so overwhelming to President Kimball that after
hanging up the phone, feelings of inadequacy overcame him and he
sank to the floor, sobbing. Camilla sat on the floor with him,
stroking his hair, trying to quiet him. President Kimball wrote: My
wife is my salvation. She comforted me and encouraged me and
continued to say there was only one road to follow.
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We can learn from each other. Who better to learn how to be
more nurturing than from one who has that God-given gift? Who
better to learn how to be more kind, or charitable, or loving, than
from one who has that God-given gift? God has perfected all these
traits If we hope to become like God we, too, must develop all the
attributes of Godliness. We can do that best by learning from those
who can best teach us. This suggest that we each have a
responsibility to emulate, for others, the qualities God has given
us.
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From my experience, It would seem that faithful mothers have a
special gift that we often refer to as mothers intuition. Perhaps
with the great blessing of motherhood, our Heavenly Father has
endowed them with this quality, since fathers, busy in priesthood
callings and with the work of earning a livelihood, never draw
quite as close to heavenly beings in matters that relate to the
more intimate details of bringing up children in the home (Harold
B. Lee, The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, 291).
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All virtues listed in the scriptures love, joy, peace, faith,
godliness, charity are shared by both men and women, and the
highest priesthood ordinance in mortality is given only to men and
women togetherThe woman, by her very natureis the primary nurturer
of the children. Virtues and attributes upon which perfection and
exaltation depend come naturally to a woman and are refined through
marriage and motherhood (Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, Nov. 1993).