08-25-2012, 07:04 PM
Yes, that is the ideal model, much as I care for and protect my sub when I have one. Their welfare, well being and personal growth comes before my own. And that is wonderful when it works.
The problem is there are too many wives who do not understand that being submissive does not in any way mean you are an object, toy or less valuable than your husband and, too many husbands do not understand that submission is a gift beyond price, a gift of faith, love and absolute trust. The think it means the can order the wife around against her will, beat the daylight out of her if she doesn't do exactly as they want, keep her from seeing or even having friends and family, force her to have sex in way or at times she has no desire to do, etc...
It isn't the ideals behind it, it's the phrasing combined with the uneducated, careless nature of people that poses the problem.
The problem is there are too many wives who do not understand that being submissive does not in any way mean you are an object, toy or less valuable than your husband and, too many husbands do not understand that submission is a gift beyond price, a gift of faith, love and absolute trust. The think it means the can order the wife around against her will, beat the daylight out of her if she doesn't do exactly as they want, keep her from seeing or even having friends and family, force her to have sex in way or at times she has no desire to do, etc...
It isn't the ideals behind it, it's the phrasing combined with the uneducated, careless nature of people that poses the problem.