Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

sisters. You might as well kill yourself or get on a bus and go
somewhere else, but don’t come back without your mother and
the girls. Now, I knew good and hell well that if anybody so
much as raised a finger to my mother, I wouldn’t be able to do
anything about it—that she was really taking care of me on that
bus. But, buddy, I’d be on the bus and in the store with my
little chest stuck out, swearing I was doing something to protect
my family.
Because that was what I was supposed to do.
Indeed, that is what every man is supposed to—and is willing
to do—for the people for whom he professes and provides.
Once he says he cares about you, you are a prized possession to
him, he will do anything to protect that prized possession. If
he’s hearing you argue with a bill collector, he’s going to say,
“Who are you talking to? Let me talk to him right quick.” If
your ex is calling and bringing drama in your life, your man is
going to talk to him about it. If he sees your kids are cutting up
and getting out of hand, he’s going to talk to them, too. In
other words, he’s going to be providing protection and leader-
ship for his family because he knows a real man is a protector.
There is not a real man living who will not protect what is his.
It’s about respect.
I’d argue that this is most certainly one of the key things any
woman wants in her man, because it is what girls have been
raised to expect—that they can count on the most important
men in their lives to go to battle for them, and keep them safe