Tortured Husbands ?

Read a newspaper article this morning that brought a smile to me. For those of you who wants to read it, it’s on the last page of 07 Feb 05 LianHe WanBao.

The report says that there are about 4000 (if I did not remember the figure wrongly) husbands in Hong Kong that prefer to sleep in containers or other run-down places instead of in the comfort of their own homes. Why ? Reason being they are mostly being abused or nagged constantly by their wives when at home. Thus to avoid constant mental torture, they would rather spend the night outside then to “suffer” at home.

That reminds me of one of the verses that Pastor Prince mentioned in his series of messages entitled “Christ being the centre of marriages”.

Proverbs 21:9 (NKJV) – Better to dwell in the corner of a housetop, than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

The NIV (New International Version) says it even more clearly (hahaha).

Proverbs 21:9 (NIV) – Better to live on the corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour.. (Eph 5:22-23 NIV)

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. (Eph 5:25-28)

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I rest my case. ;p