At election time they make promises, but once voted into office, they renege. The voter was tricked into believing an illusion, and there is eventually a negative backlash. Let me say a word about the power of sexuality in particular in this regard. A husband's or wife's sexual approach can be something spontaneous and joyful, a gift of tenderness, an offer of thanksgiving, a request for reassurance, an appeal to be held onto, or an expression of deeply understood oneness. But it shouldn't have any background questions.
Love making as a means to an end undermines a marriage.
As Ruth prepared for the evening, bathing and applying fragrance and putting on her best clothes, her thoughts must have turned to questions about God's puroses and the evidence of Boaz's commitment to righteousness. Naomi assumes him to be. At the critical moment, when Boaz awakened, Ruth didn't rub his feet or nibble his ear, or give him any other nonverbal signals that would make her presence more suggestive. It does not describe the blanket under which they are lying. In Ezekiel 16 when God draws near to Israel, his fallen young bride, and initiates a marriage relationship with her, the same language is used.