Staying free from feminist lies

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A wife can and should stand up for what is right. And not do anything against God’s commandments.

Yet, she is not the head of the relationship. She ought to try to convince her husband what she believes is better to do, but leave the final decision to him.

The husband ought to try to please his wife whenever possible.

I believe many Catholic women do more of the necessary jobs in our Church. Because men do not take up their responsibilities.
 
But slavery is?
That’s why complete reliance on Scripture doesn’t work. Couples can work out their relationships however they wish—but insisting men are automatically in charge is anachronistic and, frankly, bizarre.
 
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A wife can and should stand up for what is right. And not do anything against God’s commandments.
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A couple would experience many many decisions to make, rather than stuff regarding sin though. I can’t imagine a marriage where I have to petition for things I want 24/7 😂
 
‘here you go again’ when I responded to someone else and not you. I’m extremely sure you’re not that starved for attention so I don’t get why you’re so offended over this. Also I didn’t say all Catholics avoid it, in fact I have said so many on purpose because I have seen trad people give their hot take on Ephesians 5.
 
In the same way slavery does not. Or, we can go with the “man is the head, woman is the heart” analogy. As long as it’s clear the head and heart are equal in authority.

Neither my husband nor I believe one of us is the final authority. It’s an equal partnership, and it’s worked brilliantly for a number of years.
 
Isn’t that a huge part of marriage?

Both must be sacrificial towards one another. Still, a wife ought to do it through submitting to her husband. And the husband by loving his wife.
 
We use the verse right before the one you’re quoting—and actually, that statement about second marriages isn’t statistically accurate.
 
The best single treatment of feminism I’ve seen from a Catholic perspective I’ve seen is this, from EWTN by Dale O’Leary, a woman Catholic author.

https://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/FEMINISM.TXT

She knows the historic background of feminism and its inner workings.

On the subject of headship in marriage, she writes:
Code: 
 Take for example the question of submission, "Wives submit to
your husbands". The word in Greek is hupotasso. It is primarily a
military term “to rank under”. It isn’t about being a wimpy weak
woman. It has the feel of a Marine salute. It doesn’t imply
inferiority, but order. I have argued with feminists about this.
“Why,” they ask, “should women submit?” Consider, I reply. the other
possibilities: that the family would have no head. This would result
in confusion and crossed purposes, two people can’t solve things by a
vote. Give the children a vote, and the parents would have to lobby
the children. Without a clear head, we don’t have equality but
tyranny of the most stubborn, the most selfish, the one who won’t
give. “Well”, my feminist opponents retort, “Why should it be the
man? Aren’t some women more capable then their husbands?” To this I
agree, some women are more capable of leadership than their husbands.
Men are not given headship because they have merited it, it is their
assignment. We wouldn’t want a contest in every marriage to determine
who was a better head. Who would be the judge?
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Which is, to put it bluntly, much more often the wife than the husband. That was my experience and I’ve seen it over and over. To this we can add “The one who can afford to walk out if they don’t get what they want” because of favourable divorce laws. Or “the one who can most easily claim the place of victim” due to gender propaganda in society.
 
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Well, only one of us is Catholic. It still works. Really really well.
 
Both of us are Catholic and it works for us because my husband tries to love me as Christ loves His Church giving up his life for me.
 
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