Here’s a cute article about being the husband of a woman interested in her own spiritual development that ran in Harville Hendrix/Helen LaKelly Hunt’s Imago couples therapy newsletter. It’s called “Gynestrology 101: How to Husband An Enlightened Hottie,” and it’s by a guy named Will Craig.
What is Gynestrology? you might ask. Craig writes: “Gynestrology is the spiritual study of women’s spiritual study, an elusive but rewarding adventure. You see, women do all kinds of things related to ‘spirituality,’ a blanket term that refers to pretty much whatever may be vaguely related to religion, inner knowing, mistakes, feelings, and anything else where a definitive, straight answer cannot be had. They have an incomprehensible, irresistible instinct to do spiritual things, meaning you had better just stay out of their holy freaking way…Your best bet is to participate in Gynestrology, which means that you dedicate authentic effort to understand, but never entangle yourself in the gears of some great spiritual machination that can, and will, reduce you to a whiff of organic afterscent quicker than a toddler wants some of what you’re having.”
Sounds like a good book to me.
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