by Nate Brooks
Part 1 established that a husband’s status as leader within the family is not derived from his superiority in wisdom or morality. Complementarian men are quick to acknowledge this truth, but a gap often exists between ideas and life. This post looks at the first two of four ways I frequently see men sliding from complementarianism into functional patriarchy.
1) Reading Situations
Every day we continually interpret our interactions with people, our experience of events, and our internal feelings, narrating to ourselves our thoughts and reactions. A husband’s and wife’s world overlaps significantly as they share church, friends, interests, family, etc. together. While a husband and wife often interpret the same event in similar ways, sometimes they may view something quite differently. Was that conversation with another couple friendly, or did it contain an undercurrent of relational strain? Exactly how important is that problem with the van? What is the best way to approach this disciplinary issue with this particular child?
The husband may be quick to say the conversation was friendly, the van is not a concern, and the forbidding of privileges for the next century would be a good consequence. The wife might view each from
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