The show Submissive Wives debuted on TLC last night. I wasn’t even aware such a show existed until my Facebook news feed became rife with comments about the show and how it infuriated some and nauseated others. Since the show had already begun, I clicked to a later viewing, hit record, and came back to watch it in its entirety. I was interested to see what the rage was about.
The word submission in the writing world is a hopeful and exciting word. It means we’re preparing a piece to be submitted to a blog, publisher, magazine, etc. in hopes of being published. In the context of relationships, however, the word “submissive” often makes people lose their heads. Heated conversations are had. Accusations fly. Marriages are ridiculed. Women are deemed weak. In other words, it brings out the ugly.
Candace Cameron Bure got blasted in recent history for including in her book “Balancing It All”, a snippet about submissiveness in her marriage. There was a cry heard round the worldwide web and I wrote in her defense on BlogHer and to date, it’s one of my most-read posts, in the many, many thousands of reads.