Some guys have a warped sense of leadership within marriage and the family. We sometimes think that as husband, we’re the final authority on everything, and that our wives owe us a duty of meek submission in all things, just because we’re the husband. Wives, submit to your husbands, some think. But this is a hopelessly misleading interpretation of Ephesians 5. Forget about your wife’s obligations. Let’s focus on ours. We’re responsible to love our wives as Christ loves the Church. Jesus never demands that we submit, and we shouldn’t either. The essence of authentic leadership is what St. John Paul II sometimes referred to as the “gift of self.” True authority is about sacrifice and dying to ourselves, and true leadership is about modeling our approach to marriage on Christ Himself. Let’s pray for one another.
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