Socially conservative men love the idea of submissive wives, but then they meet one and they don't approve of her husband's decisions about something or see her suffering, and they're like,
Not like that, tho.
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Submissive doesn't mean doormat. I am not sure many men want a woman without her own fire.
You don't have to be a doormat to have a husband who makes bad decisions.
Wifely submission is like Schrödingers cat. She is both submissive and unsubmissive, until you observe her when her husband is being dumb.
Submissive wives love conservative men until… then they’re like, not like that.
My mom believed a wife should submit to her husband. She was a lawyer, earned all the money, brilliant great teacher. My dad was a salesman, aggressive abusive personality who didn't even work while I was alive.
There was a lot of pain for both of us, but in the end everything worked out great nevertheless. Suffering is the fertile soil of life.