Having been married 17 years, I am shocked and amazed that I lasted as long as I did without having a wife. Being married to a woman teaches you just how much you don’t know about life, living and survival in the real world. If you don’t believe me, just ask her. Actually that is the first thing a woman teaches you, you can’t go on any longer under the delusion that survival is possible without her insight.

There are things I never knew about myself that are now crystal clear. For example, before I got married I actually had the audacity to believe that I knew how to drive. I was kidding myself. I never realized that all cars come with brakes. Oh sure, I utilized them periodically, but I never realized how often I needed them.

Thanks be to God; now that my wife sits next to me in the car, she can demonstrate by using her phantom brake whenever we are in danger, to model for me when I should be using mine. I just keep one eye on the road and one on her floorboard, and she lets me know, for example, that we are approaching a red light and cars are already there! Who knew to look for that!

I can’t begin to detail how many cars I thoughtlessly plowed into until my wife made me painfully aware that I should have started braking hundreds of feet earlier. The fact that she drives exactly like me when she is at the wheel is not hypocrisy as much as the fact that she can handle these situations; whereas I can’t.

I never realized, as well, that a light turning yellow that I actually could have made is going to change to red sooner than I anticipate; and thank goodness she is there to inform me. I was carelessly lost in my own thoughts of driving and paying attention to the road, and so her phantom braking, pointing and startled vocal expressions snap me back to reality by frightening me into defensiveness I never realized I needed until she made me aware.

The fact that her outbursts almost always cause a wreck on my part is proof positive that I need to be on my toes. Apparently even with cars 100 yards away, it is never to early to panic.

Remember, to a Christian woman honoring your husband is God's command, and nothing honors him more than pointing out his self-deluded idea that he is competent. Heck I wasn’t even able to dress myself before my wife came along. Who knows what shame I must have brought on myself for years by buying my own clothes based on my own taste.

Yes, in the Garden of Eden, even though God made man first, He obviously realized that unless a woman was created, we would just continue to walk around nude since we would never have to worry about everything “matching.”

Yes we men should be thanking God daily for the blessing of the wives in our lives and never take them for granted, because they obviously never needed us and would probably be much better off without us. Other than the fact that they would be unable to move the furniture when it came to spring-cleaning.