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How should we love our spouse? Bishop Athanasios on the difference between man and woman
What the video says
A man and a woman are different and express themselves differently. The speaker describes cases of people who feel they do not receive from their spouse the love and behavior they expected and need. A woman needs her man to be a man to her, showing his love, interest, word and presence as a man, not as a woman.
Likewise a man expects from his wife a feminine presence beside him, not a masculine one, because she is his helpmate and this is what he needs in his marriage.
Key moments
- A man and a woman are different and each expresses himself or herself in a different way.
- Some people feel they do not receive from their spouse the love and behavior they expected and need.
- A woman needs her husband to show his love, interest, word and presence as a man, not as a woman.
- A man expects a feminine presence from his wife, not a masculine one, because she is his helpmate and this is what he needs in his marriage.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol speaks about how a husband and wife should love each other. He begins from the difference between the sexes: a man is one thing and a woman is another, and each expresses himself or herself in a different way. He says he has seen cases of people who feel they do not receive from their spouse the love and the behavior they expected and need.
A woman, he explains, needs her man to be a man to her, to show his love, his interest, his word and his presence as a man, not as a woman. In the same way, a man expects from his wife not a masculine, manly love and presence, but a feminine presence beside him. He gives the reason: she is his other half, his helpmate, and this is what he needs as a man within his marriage.
The talk stays on this single theme, the distinct way each spouse is called to express love according to his or her nature, rather than offering a list of practical rules. The post carries hashtags identifying the speaker as Metropolitan of Limassol Athanasios and linking the clip to Orthodox and Greek Orthodox faith topics. There is no discussion thread attached to the post; the content is the bishop's own words, quoted in Greek, on the mutual expectations of husbands and wives in marriage.
Main points
- A man and a woman are different and each expresses himself or herself in a different way.
- Some people feel they do not receive from their spouse the love and behavior they expected and need.
- A woman needs her husband to show his love, interest, word and presence as a man, not as a woman.
- A man expects a feminine presence from his wife, not a masculine one, because she is his helpmate.
- The speaker is Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol.