Real Stories - May 2017

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My husband has brought your wonderful web site to my attention, and I thought you might be interested in our situation. I am a dominant woman and have been dominant in my thoughts and actions all of my life. When I was growing up in the Fresno area, My mom dominated my dad, although she was a church going woman who would have been uncomfortable with the imagery of female domination. Nevertheless, in our home my mom was dominant. My dad was a bus driver and he had to work double shifts, often 16 hours a day, in order to provide for us. When he came home from work, he was expected to clean the house, do the shopping and run all the errands. When he did something stupid like overcook dinner, my mother would ball him out, and on occasion even slap him in the face in front of us. We understood that he was totally secondary in our household, and that when there was an issue that required final resolution, we went to mom. When my parents reached their mid 40s, they were able to retire because my mother had saved all the extra money my father was making, and they moved to my grandparents' home town in Mexico. They live there very well today, and my dad still does the housework.