Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

the back of his car. When we looked out the window, my father
had that man bent over the car with both his hands on that
man’s neck. “If you ever say anything disrespectful to my wife
again, I will kill you,” he said. Now, that may seem a little ex-
treme, but this is what real men do to protect the ones they
love.
Protection isn’t just about using brute, physical force against
someone, though. A man who truly cares about or loves you
can and will protect you in other ways, whether it be with
advice, or stepping up to perform a task that he thinks is too
dangerous for you to do. For instance, if it’s dark outside, he
may not want you to put the car in the driveway or walk the
dog by yourself because he fears for your safety; in this instance,
he’ll move the cars and walk the dog himself, even if he’s just
off a double shift, so that you can be inside where it’s safe. If
you’re walking by someone who looks like he might be a threat,
a man who loves you is going to protect you by putting himself
between you and that guy as you walk by so if he tries any-
thing, he’ll have to get through your man before he so much as
lays a finger on you.
My wife, Marjorie, still cracks up when she thinks about
how I “protected” her on a recent joint fishing and diving trip
we took in Maui. See, my wife is a certified scuba diver. I am
not. When we got out on those choppy waters of the Pacific
Ocean, I couldn’t help but feel like something was going to
happen to my wife down there, and I wouldn’t have any way of