Author	Thread: What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart?
DEEDEE72 View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 13 Sep, 2010 05:39 PM What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? I believe there are three core desires of women. First, women desire romance; they want to be pursued. Second, women desire to play an irreplaceable role in a heroic adventure. We don't just want to be an appendage; we weren't made for that. And the third desire is to be the beauty in a story, the heroine. Think of the movies we like: Pride and Prejudice, Titanic and others. Women desire to be beautiful on the outside and also have depth in their souls. We want to have a deepness all our own to offer. Yet so often we bury these desires, or we're so badly wounded that we don't want to go there. Courtesy of Staci Eldredge (Captivating) Post Reply
SilverFire View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 13 Sep, 2010 07:59 PM What do I believe? I think most women are interested in three things and three things only: money/income, stability, and social position. The movie Scarface said it best: "In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women." Drive/talent are a nice-to-have. Looks are a nice-to-have. Communication is a nice-to-have (which is why women spend so much time talking about guys instead of talking to guys). It's not the way I see the world and those things aren't important to me, but I think they make the difference to most women. Post Reply
Tulip89 View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 13 Sep, 2010 08:55 PM I haven't read Captivating because I couldn't get through the first couple pages. If felt too cheesy. I couldn't get more than a couple chapters into Wild At Heart though, because of the liberties he takes with scripture and theology. Really though, we can't separate our desires from our purpose. We were made to be complete in God through Christ. We were made to glorify him by delighting in him forever. Any sense of adventure, purpose, fulfillment or love is only complete in Christ. That said, I think people all have a desire for a sense of belonging and a purpose. We belong to Christ and our purpose is to glorify God by enjoying him forever. Our relationships on earth are only flickers of shadows on the wall of a cave, echos of what is to come. We desire excitement, love, and acceptance because these are ways to physically understand God's relationship with us on this side of heaven. In some ways it looks different, but in the end men and women are not all that different. Post Reply
View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 13 Sep, 2010 09:28 PM I found the only way to know anything is through other people on a personal level. While other sources can be helpful, and give direction, they don't have the answers; Just speculation. There are no short cuts or answer books or gurus. It's not a test, it's life. Everybody's different. It's unfair. Get over it :glow: Personally I read both and found while they gave some good direction and don't see anything particularly wrong I think it's like studying calculus to prepare for a basic algebra test. Post Reply
Rabbit32 View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 13 Sep, 2010 10:12 PM Personally I think Titanic is a bad example all around. @ Deedee I dont wanna come off sounding rude, so please don't take what I say as an attack on your character. Your description almost sounds like what you hear in the movies, the question Ild like to know is how do you respond when those desires arent met? I think in their most basic forms women want to be held, to be heard, and to be secure...lol if I had to pick only three. Post Reply
DEEDEE72 View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 14 Sep, 2010 01:48 AM No offense taken...I did not write what you read. I copied it from an interview with Staci Eldredge who wrote "Captivating". If you are interested you can read the whole interview here. She gave me much to think about and I wanted to get some other opinions... http://www.christianitytoday.com/momsense/2006/marapr/3.6.html?start=1‏ Post Reply
DEEDEE72 View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 14 Sep, 2010 01:53 AM This depends on the women....Have you ever seen a man who was successful and had all these things and his wife left him for a bus driver (nothing against bus drivers). It usually baffles the man. I remeber talking to a friend who was a truck driver. He was away 3 weeks out of the month and came home one weekend. Yes weekend. He loved his wife. He said she called him and begged hom to come home. He told her she had to work. She left him for another truck driver who was ALWAYS home on weekends. He said he did not think the other guy made much becuase you cannot make alot of money not driving on weekends. After the divorce he still did not get it. Post Reply
SilverFire View Profile History	What do you believe are the desires of a woman's heart? Posted : 14 Sep, 2010 04:44 PM He got it, though. His goal was to make money (i.e. provide for the woman) and the other guy wasn't making as much. She valued companionship more than money -- which is pretty rare (most women will not marry "for love" if money is not around). Their emphasees did not align, that's all. It sounds like they were better off without each other. Post Reply