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I stumbled across this article while searching for a picture for another one of my discussions. It is about wives submitting to their husbands. Please tell me what you think when you read this. "Dear Friends, It was a couple of years ago, as I was talking to my husband before he left for work, that I asked him the following question. It was a question that a friend had asked me the day before, and I felt like my husband would be able to give her the answer that she was really looking for. "Dave," I said to him on that day, "What do you think a good woman can do to become a great wife to her husband?" "That's an easy question to answer," he replied, quickly, and without giving it much thought, "She can find out what her husband likes and do it." "That's it???" I questioned, not quite believing that being a good wife could be achieved so easily. "Yes, Julie, that's it. That is all that any woman needs to do to become a great wife to her husband." As my husband left that day, I knew that what he said was true. It was the same thing that God had been telling women for years. "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord," he tells us clearly in His Word. And then He even goes on to tell us why ~ "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." Wives are supposed to do the things that please their husbands. It's that simple. It's just not always that easy, is it? After all, if we are going to "find out what our husband likes and do it", we are not going to be able to follow the instructions and advice in those nicely written marriage manuals that we have at home. You know, the ones that are written by our favorite author and are filled with our favorite ideas for a good marriage. And if we are going to commit ourselves to doing things "his way" ~ cooking the meals he likes, dressing like he wants us too, running the home according to his schedule, allowing him to manage the money, and raising the kids the way he thinks is best . . . we are not going to be able to control our home, our children, our money, and our lives like we are so used to doing. Real submission to our husbands is simple ladies, but it isn't going to be easy. If we are going to be good wives to our husbands, we are going to have to put away all those marriage manuals, turn a deaf ear to all the advice from our favorite friends and speakers, and die to our own desire to control and turn our hearts and minds towards our husbands, and spend time finding out what our husbands really like. We will need to spend our time studying them, listening to them, and allowing them to show us who they really are and how they want everything around them run. As a woman that has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, I can tell you that truly submitting to your husband will not always be easy . . . but it will always be worth it. As you see the happiness that your submission brings to the heart of your husband, to the quality of your marriage, and to the spirit of your home, you will be glad that you put forth the effort. May God bless you as you seek to be a good wife by making your husband happy as you choose to make him your marriage manual." What are your thoughts on this?