Why I'm Not Threatened When Other Men Want My Wife | Infinite Devotion Episode 151
Dawn sat down with a list of questions and didn't tell me what was on it. We were both in tears within the first five minutes.
A few weeks ago I posted, "I don't want you to be mine. I want you to be free and choose to stay." On Facebook it reached over a million people, and plenty of them were angry. One said that giving a partner that much freedom will turn even the best person into a bully. Another asked if it meant Dawn was done surrendering. This episode answers both. It's also the first time I've told the story of what happened on a beach in Los Angeles seven months ago, when I asked Dawn to stand up.
We also get into why most men's ideas about leading are really about getting, what faith becomes once it stops being a way to avoid questions, and why male, man, and masculine mean three different things.
In this episode:
- What we each love about ourselves and each other (it got emotional fast)
- The beach in LA, and why I asked Dawn to stand before offering her a new symbol of her surrender
- Dawn on finding her own wholeness and choosing to follow from there instead of from self-abandonment
- Why freedom doesn't turn your partner into a bully, and why I don't set boundaries on what Dawn can do
- Two sentences that make everything make sense: there are no contradictions, and check your premises
- Why your body sometimes has to learn to trust you again before you can fully trust it
- Walking out of Catholic education at 13, and what faith means to us now
- Male, man, and masculine, and what actually makes a male become a man
- Do I get a blowjob every day? (No. And the men who want one are giving themselves away.)
- Why other men seeing and wanting Dawn doesn't threaten me
- Marriage as a choice you make every single day
- The teachers who've shaped me most, and the one I've learned the most from by far
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