On the Wednesday episode of The 700 Club, Pat Robertson, font of marital advice and insight into human nature, continued to wow us. A distraught viewer wrote:
“I’ve been trying to forgive my husband for cheating on me.” “We have gone to counseling, but I just can’t seem to forgive, nor can I trust. How do you let go of the anger? “God says to forgive but it’s just so hard to do.” ” How do you trust again?”
If this desperate woman expected spiritual guidance in the realm of forgiveness and trust, she’d have done better to have a nice order of Chow Mien and heed the advice in her fortune cookie.
Always a giver, Pat was happy to share a couple of little ‘secrets’ about men… As it turns out,”Men wander” and you should be grateful that he comes home at all. Be grateful that he gives you a nice roof over your head, food and clothing. Is he nice to the kids, and handsome? This seems to imply that Robertson is writing from the 19th century when only women who were single or widowed worked outside of the home – too.
Back to Pat. Cheating – it’s what men do, get over it, and realize it’s your fault, lady. ..This is a theme he has addressed to women seeking his advice in the past. Inevitably he assumes that they are frumpy and unattractive -thus, justification for cheating. Words to live by ladies: “It isn’t something to just lie there, you’ve got to fix yourself up – look pretty.” I’ve yet to see the scenario reversed in one of Robertson’s Q&A sessions.
Pat makes it clear that it is the long-suffering wife’s job to focus on the positive.” Pat advises her : “What you want to do is make a home so wonderful that he doesn’t want to wander” or give in to the “salacious” magazine pictures and Internet filled with prom.” This decorating scheme simply has to be on About.com…Somewhere, although I believe that “Hooters” has already adapted the Robertson approved decorating theme successfully.