That is rather said assessment of men and women filling the role in the marriage. Both giving. the woman giving the lead to the man and the man sacrificing himself for the woman as Christ did for the church.
When working as a pair of oxen one must lead and one must follow the lead. But together they work and together they achieve their Goals. If you pair up two oxen that are not "evenly yoked" nothing will be achieved.
Submission is NOT subjugation it is cooperation. Just as we all submit to the Lord
If you find that you are not able to bring yourself to fulfill the role God as laid out then do not get married
No wonder there are so many divorces.
As I like to Say, I think I am in charge, and my wife lets me think that ;)
If I did not seek to do all I can for her, it would soon become a toxic environment.
I like the joke! I use I am the head of my home, just ask my wife!
And I agree 1005 with your last line.
I also agree submission is not subjugation as I already have told you! So why you repeat it is unnecessary.
And Scripture is 100% clear and unambiguous, that as we submit to the Lord so also must a wife submit to her husband!
why you have a problem with that is beyond me.
Ephesians 5:22-24
King James Version
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
If Christ demands obedience from the church, then so should the wife obey her husband willingly and with love!
If we are to serve Christ so the wife serve her husband willingly and with love.
This is called divine order. And I will repeat the call of the husband as well:
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
so if you are opposed to the wife submitting to her husband, maybe you are against the husband loving his wife as Christ loves the church as well?
After all they are linked in one thought as a working relationship.