Systematic humiliation by a wife can destroy a husband’s creative confidence

Evidence

It is she who dried up the source of my thoughts by patiently, slowly and purposefully discouraging me, methodically humiliating me, making me renounce my pride, in spite of myself, by chipping away with a precise, imperturbable, implacable logic. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1313

Categorization

• SHARE: For someone fascinated by destructive relational dynamics in literary marriages — Jouhandeau’s self-portrait of being eroded by Élise.
• XREF: connects to: Evangelical marriage advice framed female submission as repairing the husband’s threatened ego — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 142; The husband becomes the concrete target of woman’s powerless revolt against male privilege — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1749

Broader Connections

• Evangelical marriage advice framed female submission as repairing the husband’s threatened ego #expands (0.78) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 142