Sentences with phrase «mother than his wife»

Ella cleans him, acting more as mother than wife, even as she grows sicker each demanding day.

He felt like she was more like his mother than his wife — a pattern that frequently emerges in long term marriages.

In Egypt, men and women agreed that wives should have the highest communal strength for their husbands and mothers, but husbands should have higher communal strength for their mothers than their wives or best friends.

Not exact matches

I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother and father, sister and brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in you Father, I send up a prayer request for financial blessing for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to.

Kids are fine, wife is a great mother... currently earn less than 20k, been on WIC... have managed to keep my house through the recession... yeah your right, im lazy.

In a similar way, disidentify your self from your feelings and emotions (I have emotions, but lam more than my emotions, and so on); your desires; your intellect and thoughts; your job; your social roles (e.g., father or mother, husband or wife, your job roles); your relationships; your problems.

A woman who is happy being a wife and mother and homemaker shouldn't be made to feel less respected and worthwhile than a woman who has a job or career.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

People too often talk about Jesus aside from his words, about his compassion towards all, while they fail to wrestle with some of his steepest moral teachings: «Whoever divorces his wife... and marries another, commits adultery; Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart; If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; I have come to bring not peace but the sword; Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me» (Mt 19:9, 5:28, 5:30, 10:14, 10:37).

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

Jesus gave proof of his compassion and power in his healing of women no less than of men: Peter's wife's mother (Mt. 8: 14f.

«The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.»

Nothing makes a husband look up more to his wife than the fact that she is the mother, the dedicated mother, of his children.

Do you really believe that married gays will always do worse than hetro fathers who kill their wives and blow up their children, or worse than hetero mothers that kill their children because their god told them to, or ignore their cult's leaders to the tune of 700,000 + abortions per year in the USA?

Husbands and fathers are assumed to be dishonest and struggle to prove the contrary; less than honest affidavits and statements are regularly sworn by vengeful parties; and wives and mothers are encouraged to demand to the full the use of the very liberal and ample powers that the courts now have to oust fathers from their own homes and deprive them of any but the most minimal contact with their children.

Mid-thirty something wife, mother of two, runner, yogi and wannabe renaissance woman striving to look and feel even BETTER than she did before babies.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

My wife tends to listen to her mother more than me.

As a wife and mother, time seems to disappear faster than socks in a dryer.

The post dates back to 2014, but regardless — the recent comments indicate a certain percentage of wives and husbands are not getting their sexual needs met, even though in many other ways their marriage is comfortable and their husband or wife (and, despite the stereotypes, their are more wives complaining about disinterested husbands than vice-versa) is «wonderful» or a «great father / mother.»

and how the commentator was observing that this seemed to actually be more a requirement now than when Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor (both of whome were wives and mothers) were cutting there teeth in the world of employment and the public sphere.

There is nothing I love more than being a wife and a mother, and there is no one I love more than my children and my husband.

There's hardly anyone better to give advice on this topic than Laura Vanderkam, who is the author of multiple books on time - management, a wife, and the mother of four young kids.

Half of mothers in two - parent households say they do more than their partners in this area, compared with 32 % of fathers who say their wives or partners do more.

It could mean that more than 2,500 families each year would not lose their mother, wife, sister, daughter

Hearing that will more than slightly upset these pregnant wives, who will lay the Mother of all guilt trips on the baby daddies because of being upset - and being upset is very bad for their unborn babies.

It's disappointing you imagine there would be any malice in anything a professional did for your wife or baby, or that they are motivated by anything other than wanting the best health outcome for mother and baby.

Wendy Flynn, One Tough Mother Runner [«The Hobby That Changed My Life»] Wendy Bradford, Mama One to Three [«Less Whine and More Wine»] Hallie Lord, Moxie Wife [«The Gift of Imperfection»] Leslie Marinelli, The Bearded Iris [«I Suddenly Have a Mom Mullet»] Michelle Lehnardt, Scenes from the Wild [«Big Kids Need Tucking In, Too»] Nina Badzin, NinaBadzin.com [«Shine and Let Others Shine»] Debbie Koenig, Words to Eat By [«We're All Just Faking It»] Rachel Balducci, Testosterhome [«Words You Shouldn't Be Scared Of»] Kimberley Clayton Blaine, TheGoToMom.TV [«Moms, Don't Be Camera Shy»] Kristen Levithan, Motherese [«It's Not Always All On Me»] Amber Strocel, Strocel.com [«Know What You Need»] Stacie Billis, One Hungry Mama [«I'm Not Above Asking for Help»] Kathryn Whitaker, Team Whitaker [«Learn to Love the Unplanned»] Jill Herzig, Editor - in - Chief of Redbook [«Sometimes It's Best to Do Nothing»] Alicia Ybarbo, producer at NBC's TODAY [«The Secret To «Me» Time»] Dana Points, Editor - in - Chief of Parents [«The Dishes Can Wait»] Rachel Hollis, My Chic Life [«Permission To Be Awesome»] Erin, Home with the Boys [«Our Kids Are Capable»] Rachel Turiel, 6512 and Growing [«The Romance of Gratitude»] Shawn Ledington Fink, Awesomely Awake [«Being Together is Enough»] Danielle Smith, Extraordinary Mommy [«It's Okay to Drop Some Balls»] Ronnie Tyler, Black and Married with Kids [«It's Hard to Forgive Yourself»] Christine Koh, Boston Mamas [«Done is Better Than Perfect»] Ilana Wiles, Mommy Shorts [«Sleep When Baby Sleeps?

There is nothing else that I would rather be doing with my life at this moment than being a wife and a mother, nothing that I would change.

A transition must less natural than that of wives becoming mothers (I can't figure out why; — RRB -, but breast - feeding has NOTHING to do with it.

Survivors include his wife of more than 46 years, Joan S.; two daughters, Pamela Hull and Cathy Johnson; a son, Gregg R.; his mother, Celia; a sister, Rose Johanson; and one granddaughter.

«The Prophet is nearer to the faithful than they themselves, and his wives are their mothers», says Al - Qur» an, verse 6, chapter 33.

Gagarin, who lives with his wife Aleda; 6 - month - old son Micah; and 2 - year - old daughter Zoe Frances, said he knows he will likely have to work harder than the other candidates to get out his name and message — and this push for success he said is inspired by his mother and grandmother.

I was not only older than my classmates (and most of the professors) but had been steeped in the evolutionary aspects of biology for many years, both as a biology teacher and as a wife and mother of biologists.

As a busy wife & mother of 4, I would LOVE to win this wreath rather than find the time to make it myself!

There's nothing I like more — apart from my mother and wife duties — than «boring» you with my fashion obsessions.

I am so much more than just a mother and wife... and my style is not dictated by being a mom.

Many find the peacefulness of a life dedicated to being a wife and mother more rewarding than building a career.

Since Russian and Ukrainian women have traditional values that make them great wives and mothers to their children, Western men were more than willing to make them their brides.

Well, with Mother's Day around the corner what better way to celebrate than to discuss the time when you, as a parent, meet the potential husband or wife to your son or daughter.

I'm learning that femininity goes much, much deeper than roles like «wife» or «mother.

Russian women are very serious about their future, and think about themselves as wives and mothers much more than their western counterparts.

A climactic showdown with his family — including his mother - in - law, wife and young child — goes way over the top, but Razmik is a great example of how there's more than meets the eye with all these characters.

Over in Orlando, Fin's pregnant wife (Tara Reid), daughter and mother - in - law (Bo Derek) visited the Universal Orlando Resort for no reason other than it enabled sharks to rain down on rollercoasters and devour annoying tourists.

Meanwhile, co-star and fellow Marvel - ite Elizabeth Olsen (who plays Audrey Williams) is thrilled that the film focuses so much on the women in Williams» life, because they were much more than their descriptions of «mother» or «wives»:

Usually the role of the nagging, responsible, «keeping her guy on track» wife / mother, Byrne pretty much steals the film from her male co-stars as Kelly too wants more in her life than to play the straight (wo) man, and her manic energy and increasingly creative plans inject the film with likeability and fun.

She lived during a time when upper - class women were appreciated primarily as wives and mothers, when little more was expected of them than to marry and procreate; as the film plays out, though, her daughter leaves for college, and for a life of her own.

It also spawned three sequels (Daughters Courageous, Four Wives, and Four Mothers), which TCM is playing in a row, but this is the only one that's more than half - way decent.

A read - through was held more than 20 years ago, with Goldie Hawn and Robin Williams as the infertile baker and his wife, Cher as the witch who commissions them to fetch bits and bobs (cow, slipper, cape, hair etc) from the forest so she can break the spell, Danny DeVito as the giant, Steve Martin the big bad wolf and Roseanne Barr as Jack's mother, fed up with her son's bad haggling.

Alas, I heard more than one festgoer refer to the film that revolves around a contentious yet loving relationship between a flinty high - school senior (two - time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan) and her disapproving mother, as «the one about LBJ's wife.»