There’s One Thing Husbands Love More Than Sex
I am reluctant to believe this. Or at least I ask what is the frequency of this? It sounds plausible but is surely found only in shaky marriages. But all women should undoubtedly take note of it.
Even my ex-girlfriend strokes my bare skin on appropriate occasions. I recognize and enjoy it and see it as something that normally accompanies affection. I hope I am far from alone in that experience
Women’s jaws would drop if they could listen in on my conversations with married men. Our discussions contradict just about every misconception wives utter about their husbands.
Husbands don’t want to hurt. They don’t want to argue. They don’t want to control. And they definitely don’t “just want sex”.
These guys are desperate for her to know the truth. And they shed tears at the thought that their wife may never WANT to know the truth.
The truth for these men lies in the end of her pinky finger. In that finger is packed an unspeakable power many wives choose to ignore or have yet to discover.
It’s so simple and so tender that men are afraid to even ask for it. We barely talk about it with each other! We don’t want to appear soft. We don’t want to risk a woman’s reaction to our weakness.
What is it?
It is the power of a delicate, skin-to-skin touch of feminine acceptance and approval.
When a woman calmly grazes the end of her pinky finger across any part of a man’s body and offers a verbal or non-verbal vote of confidence or support, his world changes at that instant.
It is so powerful we are often left speechless. Our throats and tear ducts begin to swell and we quietly indulge in the comforting reassurance of the moment. If we could package the word “love”, it would feel like this when the bottle was opened.
Our “well-being meter” pegs out and our heart rate and breathing slows.
Every husband I know is dying to feel this. Simple, easy-peasy feminine acceptance and approval. Nothing else. Just…this.
A World of Men Speak About Pinky Power
These are real examples of how men across the globe describe it. In every case I can hear their clenched voice of vulnerability trying to sound “strong” as they speak. Just for fun, try to imagine their accents as you read these.
Oklahoma
“She reached over during the movie and put her hand on my knee and looked at me and smiled and said ‘I’m happy you brought us here, thank you.’ ”
Alberta
“She touched my arm and giggled and called me ‘stud’ “
UK
“She scratched the top of my head for about two minutes and didn’t say anything. It was awesome.”
Turkey
“She touched my elbow and whispered, ‘You’re such a good father and a sweet man, I love that about you.’ “
Jordan
“When I told her about my idea for a better vacation spot she grabbed my arm and said, ‘I f#cking love you!’ “
New Zealand
“She just reached across the car seat and scratched the back of my head softly as I drove. It’s intoxicating.”
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A wise cat discusses the importance of money in male/female relationships
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Conservative Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Back Amendment Protecting Traditional Views on Marriage
Dozens of leaders of conservative organizations planned to send a letter Friday to members of Congress demanding that the lawmakers adopt protections for religious Americans who support the traditional idea of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The signees urged House Republicans to protect religious freedom by prioritizing passage of the so-called Roy Marriage Amendment, named after Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Advancing American Freedom, a conservative policy organization founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, spearheaded the letter.
It also includes signatures, among others, of Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; Joe Waresak, president of the James Dobson Family Institute; and Tom McClusky, director of government affairs for Catholic Vote.
If adopted, the Roy amendment would prohibit the government from engaging in “any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief, or moral conviction” regarding marriage between a man and a woman, according to the text.
The amendment also would prevent the federal government from eliminating a religious group’s tax exemption status for their beliefs on marriage.
Roy submitted the amendment to the House in 2022 in an attempt to include it with the Respect for Marriage Act, which requires all 50 states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states and was passed in December of that same year.
The House has been attempting to avoid a partial government shutdown after failing to pass a new budget for fiscal year 2024 in September. Members voted Thursday to extend the deadline to March 8, prompting Advancing American Freedom to encourage lawmakers to push the Roy amendment through before a potential shutdown.
“This provision is needed now more than ever, for no one should ever fear government punishment for holding to traditional marriage as the unique blessing that it is for all. We strongly encourage you to once again include the Roy ‘Marriage Amendment’ in upcoming appropriations bills,” the conservative leaders’ letter concludes.
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Trump has been called racist - so why are growing numbers of black and Latino voters now backing him?
There is a certain predictability about Donald Trump's rallies. A sea of red 'Make America Great Again' hats, tons of stars and stripes flags and an enthusiastic crowd of predominantly white, working-class fans who make up his loyal base.
But in recent months there has been a noticeable shift in the people turning out to cheer the former President on as he campaigns from North Carolina to Nevada and Arizona to Arkansas in his bid to return to the White House in November's presidential election.
Increasingly, supporters wearing 'Blacks For Trump' T-shirts and brandishing 'Latinos For Trump' placards are standing alongside his traditional supporters – and their numbers are growing each week.
Recent polls have shown working class minorities, who historically vote for the Democratic Party headed by President Joe Biden, are turning their backs on him in droves. A poll by AP-NORC showed only 50 per cent of black adults said they approved of Biden, down from 86 per cent in July 2021. At the same time, 25 per cent of black adults said they approved of Trump, up from 18 per cent in 2021.
Craig Scott, 54, a black filmmaker and Trump supporter from North Carolina, isn't surprised in the slightest. 'When it comes down to it, people vote with their wallets and no one can argue life in America today is better under Biden than it was under Trump. A trip to the grocery store or gas station is hitting folks where it hurts. Biden is old and out of touch. Ask most people if they were better off under Trump and the answer is 'yes'.'
Facing multiple lawsuits for everything from election fraud to tax evasion – which Trump describes as 'a political witch hunt' – has, ironically, garnered him sympathy from minority voters.
Scott, who joined a black militant group as a teenager in the 1980s and was jailed for 26 years for holding up a white-owned bank and depositing the money he stole into a black-owned bank, said: 'Black communities are used to feeling persecuted. When Trump had his mugshot released a lot of us felt sympathetic towards him.
'His run-ins with the law and what seems like an unfair obsession with putting him behind bars, reminds us of what has historically been done to us.'
For Latinos, predominantly Mexican immigrants and those from Central and South America, the decision to back Trump is more personal. It is a backlash against Biden's disastrous 'open border' policies which have seen 7.3 million migrants illegally cross the southern border of the US since he took office, according to US Custom and Border Protection official figures.
There are 36.2 million eligible Hispanic voters in 2024, up from 32.3 million in the 2020 election. Latinos are now almost 15 per cent of America's electorate and will likely hold the key to whoever wins in November, particularly in battleground states such as Arizona and Nevada, which Biden narrowly won in 2020.
In January, a USA Today/Suffolk University poll showed Trump was ahead with 39 per cent among Latino voters, compared with Biden's 24 per cent – a massive slump since the 2020 election when Bidden garnered 65 per cent of Latino votes.
Texan dentist Alma Arrendondo-Lynch, 67, took part in a 'Take Our Border Back' rally: 'I'm not against people coming into America but they should do it legally,' she said.
Another woman who arrived in Los Angeles 20 years ago from El Salvador and who preferred not to give her name, said: 'It took me years and thousands of dollars to get a Green Card and US citizenship. It's wrong Biden is letting millions of illegals flood in. Why should they be given work visas and be allowed to stay when they haven't followed the same rules as the rest of us?
'It's our communities that are hurting because of these illegals. They are taking resources away from poor areas. Our schools can't cope, our hospitals can't cope. That's why I'm voting for Trump.'
Professor Taylor Dark, of the political science department at California State University, said people should not be surprised minorities are supporting Trump.
He said: 'Many of the predominantly working-class blacks and Latinos feel Biden isn't prioritising their interests. Economically they feel worse off under Biden.
'The Democratic Party is dominated by college-educated people and their focus on issues such as trans rights doesn't align with the views of these working-class groups. They are turned off.
'Many blacks and Latinos don't like the scale of illegal immigration. They don't like it in principle and they view illegal immigrants as people who will potentially take their jobs. These minority groups are turning towards Trump for the same reasons the white working classes embraced him in 2016.'
Neither blacks nor Latinos seem bothered by claims Trump is a racist who once declared he didn't want immigrants from Haiti and Africa and 'other s***hole countries'. 'Trump isn't perfect and he's said stupid things and has been photographed with some stupid people but I don't care about that,' said a film executive who is a member of the group 'Blacks For Trump'.
'This is a fight for America. When he was President, Trump introduced prison reforms which helped African-American communities, he gave grants to black colleges, he gave stimulus cheques to promote black-owned small businesses. What has Biden done for us?
'Biden talks the talk but he's a limousine liberal who has done nothing of any real importance to change the lives of ordinary black people in this country. We've traditionally voted Democrat but many were disillusioned by Barack Obama.
'He arrived in the White House offering change and hope, but nothing changed. Black people are sick of being fed lies. Trump can't do any worse than Biden.'
Trump has said he is considering Tim Scott, the first black senator from South Carolina in America's historically racism-riven Deep South, as a potential vice-presidential running mate. Scott, who briefly stood against Trump before dropping out of the race to be the Republican nominee, dismissed Trump's legal woes and previous racist statements, saying: 'The American people are more focused on the future than on his past.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13149759/donald-trump-racist-joe-biden-election.html
****************************************************It’s time to eliminate the concept of ‘mental health’
Theodore Dalrymple
The concept of mental health is a hypochondriac’s, narcissist’s, shirker’s and social security fraud’s charter: for who can prove that someone does not so feel depressed, anxious, or grief-stricken that he is unable to work? Who can distinguish between can’t, won’t and would rather not?
Unfortunately, mental health has come to mean any deviance from a state of perfect equanimity and satisfaction
Fragile mental health, and especially mental health issues, are said to be preventing large numbers of young Britons from working, with people in their early twenties now more likely to be out of work than people in their early forties as a result. One even hears people nowadays say that ‘I’ve got mental health’ – not meaning something positive but negative. Mental health means something bad, something incapacitating.
Those with mental health issues, or just plain mental health, can get by economically without working. This is a powerful cause, I would guess, of considerable psychological unease, for even now most people do not like to feel useless to others. The frauds among them, of course, are delighted to be paid to do nothing, especially if they can supplement their income on the side.
But the difference between the genuine cases and the fraudulent, insofar as the genuine cases really do experience wretchedness of one kind or another, is not absolutely categorical. If you play a part long enough, after all, it is what you become: habit changes character.
What is mental health? The only definition I can think of is the absence of outright lunacy. Unfortunately, it has come to mean any deviance from a state of perfect equanimity and satisfaction. A long time ago, I noticed that the word ‘unhappy’ had disappeared from the everyday lexicon, in favour of the word ‘depressed’. For every person now who claims to be unhappy there are a thousand who say that they are depressed, and this is irrespective of the conditions that are making them so. When I used to say to depressed women that there would be something wrong with them if they were happy while their disgusting boyfriends were pulling them by the hair and banging their head on the floor, they would laugh, as if they knew all along that to complain of depression in such circumstances was absurd.
But the semantic change from unhappiness to depression, in so many cases absurd and even laughable, is not without its deleterious effects. If you are unhappy, you seek the causes and, if you have what used to be called inner resources, confront them. (Unfortunately, there are circumstances, truly tragic, in which this is not possible.) But if you claim to be depressed, you pass the responsibility over to professionals who are expected to do something to or for you that will remove the depression as a diseased appendix is removed.
This is fatuous and explains why expanding so called mental health services will always resemble an animal chasing its own tail. The supply creates its own demand. The psychiatrist Colin Brewer formulated a quasi-law: misery increases to meet the means available for its alleviation.
I once calculated that if you look through the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, 5th edition (in which British judges believe with all the fervour of a Latin American peasant praying to a miracle-working Virgin for the recovery of his pig) you would conclude that the average citizen in the western world suffered from two and a half mental disorders a year.
Of course, there are fashions in diagnosis. A generation ago it was multiple personality – The Three Faces of Eve kind of thing – and the DSM 5 suggested that the prevalence might be as high as 1.5 per cent of the adult population, that is to say one in every 66 people. Multiple personality has since become very rare.
These days it is gender dysphoria that is fashionable, with child gender-identity referrals increasing from 210 per year in 2011 to 5,000 per year in 2021. Either there must be something new in the water supply, or we are dealing with a socio-psychological epidemic.
I do not deny that there is real madness or that physical illness may present with psychological symptomatology straight out of the DSM 5. Both the psychiatrist and the ordinary physician must be aware of this. But this overlap does not explain the vast increase in diagnosis of psychiatric disorders among the young. Nor do I deny that there are many reasons for the young to be dissatisfied or anxious about the future, from the instability of family life to the uncertainty of economic prospects. But no army of nurses, psychologists, therapists or doctors will improve matters: on the contrary, it will dig a pit from which it will be difficult for the young to escape.
The ever-expanding gamut of psychiatric diagnosis encourages the belief that all departure from a desired state of mind is a medical condition susceptible to medical or some other technical solution. This results in a propensity to hypochondria of the mind, with people taking their mental temperatures, as it were, as hypochondriacs take their blood pressure. But it precludes honesty or genuine reflection and leads to the search for bogus cures of bogus diseases. A corollary is the neglect of those who genuinely require care, who drown in a sea of inflated need.
There are ways to ameliorate the situation. The first is the complete abandonment of the concept of mental health. The second is the abandonment of the automatic legal equivalence of psychiatric disorder and physical illne
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/its-time-to-eliminate-the-concept-of-mental-health/
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Bliss: What every woman wants: to feel safe and secure in the arms of her man. Robert Irwin and Rorie Buckey. See 
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