>There you go again! delegating what's best for your daughter to another man, for him to decide. No man is "responsible" for his wife. It's not even in the marriage vows AFAI can remember.
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>So if he turned to chapter & verse that said you should thrash the wife soundly once a week (and there probably is) you be OK with that?
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Here are instructions for the husband - if her husband followed these, I would be happy:

Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30for we are members of his body. 31"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.