An obedient wife will ask permission for such things. She honors her husband that way. She is obedient to him, as the Holy Scripture teaches. That’s a virtue. Modesty, humility, diligence - not obsessed with her own self and power. An obedient wife will have no problem asking permission – and if permission not granted, she accepts with obedience.
That’s virtue. It is harder, in many ways, for men to practice obedience because often they do not have someone telling them. Although that is the greatness of monastic life - where the monk must ask permission for everything and has the chance to practice obedience all the time, since he does what the abbot commands.
In family life it is similar. The good wife shows respect to her husband. She doesn’t run out and wander around, as so many do.
The husband is humiliated. “Where’s your wife”? “I have no idea”.
She renders him a loser - destroys his manhood. She is chasing her own ego-pleasures and very often her own lust. "Oh, no " she says, “I would never do that”.
It is unpleasant to hear it, but yes - you do.
I work in a big corporation. I encounter married women who flirt with men daily.
Let’s not talk about “fashion”.
Modesty, humility, obedience, fidelity - it all goes together.
Rage, rebellion, power, liberation, hostility, ridicule of God’s will and Catholic tradition, lust … it’s the same on the other side.
