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If a husband is loving his wife and laying down his life for her as Christ did for His church she would have no desire to look elsewhere. Its easy to sell tough sounding language but not as enticing for young men to realize the depth of our responsibility in leading.

If you have seen some years this passage makes sense. The admitation for husbands and wives make sense. Our temptations differ in marriage.

Eph 5:22-33 ESV Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

This is tone policing and white knighting.

"If a husband is loving his wife and laying down his life for her as Christ did for His church she would have no desire to look elsewhere"

The idea that a woman cannot sin by escaping or fleeing the hardship of her marriage is a feminist idea, not a Christian one.

If a wife is loyal she will not leave a man's household, the man who is laying down his a life for her as Christ did, and yet women do that because they are also sinners.

A man's job is leadership, not bathing his woman in emotional tenderness like you imply.

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I mean it's pretty clear in Scripture. I'm not suggesting men be pushovers. On the contrary. We should treat our wives with love but also not be passive. I've seen men take this in both directions. Being an impossible tyrant. And being a passive loser. Both are wrong. Both come from insecurity.

Young men need older men with confidence and experience to push them away from both extremes. You can feel free to ignore me. But I think you know what I mean.