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I write, like you, as a Christian and therefore as someone who regards the Bible, as properly understood, as the supreme authority to follow on maters of doctrine and behaviour. I therefore cannot duck the teaching that refers to man as the 'head' within a marriage. However, as I hope to explain below, I think if one really looks at the nature of this 'headship' as revealed in scripture, your readers will see that the desire of a Christian man to submit to a dominant wife, does not need to be inconsistent with a Biblical view of the relationship between man and woman within marriage. Indeed, I would even contend that in some respects it more nearly reflects the God-ordained ideal. Men really have to take more seriously how scripture teaches they are to love their wives, but more of this below.