You expect your wife to submit to you. You want her to not only think of you as her captain, but you want her very will to be involuntarily subject to your own, but are you really equipped for this level of submission? Does your life actually reflect a level of self-control that compels your wife to feel that you're even capable of handling your own spirit, let alone, hers, or does she watch with disgust as you constantly fail at governing your own life, fueling her own need to assert her independence simply to escape your perpetual weakness and add some order to her life?

I'm rather fascinated by food and people's relationship with it, but what I'm about to say could just as easily be applied to getting out of bed on any given morning, sobering up, arriving on time, lifting (Skipping leg-day again?), or porn (I'm sure you can quit anytime). We've all seen how some men set goals for themselves. Yes sir they're finally going to do it. They're going to stop eating trash, shed that gut and get in shape! We all know how this generally goes. Most men can make it through the first day, but that's about it. Something happens, maybe a friend invites them out to eat or they're at a birthday party and well, I mean what's wrong with a little cake at a birthday party?! Your wife knows you're trying to eat a particular way and then helplessly watches (or would you prefer that SHE help YOU?) that pathetic sight as the man she WANTS to put her confidence in can't sufficiently control his own desires to behave in accordance with the ruleset HE CREATED FOR HIMSELF?! What self-respecting woman could ever turn her life over and completely give herself to a man like that? Nobody wants to ride with the drunken Uber driver who is known his accidents, tardiness and failures to deliver. That oak in my backyard will never falter until it dies one day.