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Even as a God serving, redeemed, but still a fallen, sinful man, he is destined in his own strength to fail. Surely he needs both Christ and his wife as his 'helper', if he is to meet the command to love his wife as his own body. Wives are nowhere instructed to love their husbands in this same selfless way. Rather they are told earlier in the Chapter to 'submit to their husbands in everything, as the husband is head of the wife'. However, the husband is to exercise this headship as 'Christ is head of the church.' In other words it is a paradoxical headship of love and sacrificial service to his wife, a headship which gives man authority only to seek to meet his wife's needs as he does those of his own body, albeit from his position of greater physical strength.