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>>>>Since I obviously fall into the reputation-free bunch, it won't ruin it any further if I asked you how does utmost respect and honor feel combined with commanding function?
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>>>I don't "command" my wife to do anything.
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>>You just express a wish?
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>First, my wife is not my wife to fulfill my desires/wishes. Among other things, she is there as a helper for me as I pursue sanctification. She is there to be a helper to me as we raise our children. She is also there to be a helper to me in pointing out areas that I need attention/correction. She's not my "jeannie in a bottle." She's not my slave. She's my wife - my lifelong partner as we together pursue lives that bring glory to God.

Why does that conjur up in my mind a picture of you, in shining armour, on a charger, your countenance suffused with a holy light, and your wife (helper) as your serf, passing you your bow of burning gold and your lance?

I'd have thought it's the other way round, you go out to work and the little lady raises the kids, you being HER helper. But no, you want it all, you chauvanist.