But your wife and children are more important. Finally, this message also needs to be heard by those men who spend all their free time with friends and acquaintances. Everyone needs friends and it is important to be there for friends who need your help, but your wife and children still ought to come first. But I don't want to blame all marital and family woes on the husband. For every complaint women have against men, there is a corresponding bellyache on the other end of the line.
Women can be just as selfish and irresponsible as their men.
With 700 wives and 300 concubines, King Solomon saw this more than once. Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife. A wife who nags, quarrels, and complains is as bad as a husband who neglects, ignores, and forgets. A wife who lets herself go to pot, who looks like she spent the day in a tornado, is no inducement to romance.