Libby Doe

Do not read any further in this book if you can’t check every single box below:

My Husband is:

• Emotionally stronger than me.
• Mentally stronger than me.
• Spiritually stronger than me.
• Physically stronger than me.
• Intellectually more advanced than me.
• The sole income provider.
• He handles the finances.
• He leads other people in some professional capacity (business owner, civil leader, Pastor, coach, etc.)
• Other people are generally and naturally drawn to him for leadership, advice, or counsel.
• He is not financially poor and has not provided a poor lifestyle for you and your family.
• He has more than one skillset or knowledge-base in which he is very advanced (music, history, science, government, law, health, medicine, theology, mechanics, engineering, etc.). The key is more than one. If he is an advanced pianist, for example, but nothing else; then don’t check the box.
• He does not cry often or easily.
• He does not like to stay still, but he likes to travel, explore, discover, and learn.

If you checked all the boxes above, and I mean all of them, then congratulations—you are married to a Strong Man! Your marriage has likely been an interesting one. In fact, I can predict with laser accuracy exactly the type of marriage and relationship you have had with your Strong Man husband, just by knowing about you.

You see, Strong Men are almost 100% alike. They all act, think, and operate the same. They fit a specific type of behavioral pattern that is very easy to identify and even easier to predict. Sure, they can have wildly different personalities one from another, but their behaviors and decision-making processes are entirely predictable. Particularly, Strong Men that are Christians, in other words, Strong Christian Men (SCM), are remarkably predictable. And that is what this book is all about. It is about Strong Christian Men. (NOTE - I will use the acronym SCM sometimes in this book to refer to Strong Christian Men.)

I can tell you this: if you are married to one, you are among the top 1% of the most blessed women in the world. But the manner in which you handle that blessing will determine your level of happiness, and more importantly, the fruitfulness of your husband, the bliss of your relationship, and the blessings of your posterity.

In short, if you are going to have a great marriage, with fruitful children, and a husband who realizes and achieves his maximum potential, it will be so because of you.

Contrariwise, if your marriage is painful, frustrating, and emotionally distraught, and your children are rebellious or weak or don’t bear solid Christian fruit, and if your husband is unable to constantly progress and continually achieve his goals and realize his full potential; it will likewise be that way because of you.

So strap in and be prepared because you are about to have a multitude of lightbulb moments where the lightbulb goes off in your head and you say to yourself, “oh, that’s why,” or “that makes so much sense,” and “now I understand,” and even the dreaded, “it’s all my fault.” But this book is not written to make you feel bad, on the contrary it is written to help you live victoriously, but most of all, it is written to prevent you from hindering your Strong Christian Man.

SIDENOTE: It is very possible that your husband checks off many boxes but not all of them. If that is the case, it is possible that your husband is on his way to become a strong man, especially if he is very young. If your husband checks off all but 1 or 2 boxes and he is in his 20s, then there is a strong likelihood that he is on his way towards becoming a “Strong Man.” But for now, he is not. Perhaps you should revisit this book in 5-10 years.