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It is love, not submission, that men so desperately need to be taught. Men know all about submission. Their whole world is governed by the pecking order, and the competition out there is rather fierce. Likewise, men know when someone is trying to usurp their authority under the pretext of establishing equality or mutuality, and so-called “women liberators” fill that bill precisely.
The quickest way to household unrest and eventual divorce is for the wife to threaten the man’s authority over his own household. He will naturally resent it and rightly fight against it. Rather, men need to learn the art of loving. That is why St. Paul tells them so often to love their wives, for they often find it hard to do. When husband’s do love their wives, submission to his gentleness is a pleasure for the wife, not a competition to be won by seeking his equal submission to her.
As St. John Chrysostom stated so wisely many years ago, and still remains true today:
It is love, not submission, that men so desperately need to be taught. Men know all about submission. Their whole world is governed by the pecking order, and the competition out there is rather fierce. Likewise, men know when someone is trying to usurp their authority under the pretext of establishing equality or mutuality, and so-called “women liberators” fill that bill precisely.
The quickest way to household unrest and eventual divorce is for the wife to threaten the man’s authority over his own household. He will naturally resent it and rightly fight against it. Rather, men need to learn the art of loving. That is why St. Paul tells them so often to love their wives, for they often find it hard to do. When husband’s do love their wives, submission to his gentleness is a pleasure for the wife, not a competition to be won by seeking his equal submission to her.
As St. John Chrysostom stated so wisely many years ago, and still remains true today:
Observe again that Paul has exhorted husbands and wives to reciprocity…To love therefore, is the husband’s part, to yield pertains to the other side. If, then, each one contributes his own part, all stand firm. From being loved, the wife too becomes loving; and from her being submissive, the husband learns to yield." (Homilies on Colossians, NPNF1 13:304)"