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Returning to the wife, it is nowhere taught that she is to serve her husband in the same self-sacrificial way, as he is to behave towards her. Rather she is to 'submit to her husband in everything.' Now how does a Christian wife 'submit' to a husband who the Bible teaches should be striving to love her as he loves his own body, which he can do only by making her needs his priority? Logically, both partners cannot simultaneously make the other's needs and pleasures predominant, the man has to do this, not the woman. So surely the required 'submission' of a wife in this situation can only be by her endeavours to help her husband fulfil his duties towards her. She must submit to his need for help with his mission towards her from her role as his superior 'helper,' from her position of strength and authority.