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Cheryl,
Arriving late to this discussion about your post – due to travel – with my “2 cents” to add…

The more I read Gen. 1-3, the more it seems apparent to me, that comparing Adam and Eve’s marriage to anyone else’s marriage since then, is like comparing apples to rocks. Eve was not one of Adam’s daughters. Eve was his ‘ezer kenegdo.’

In all marriages after Adam and Eve’s, all the women/wives are Adam’s descendents.

It appears to me, that like Adam, that we, his descendents, struggle with wanting to control others.

This struggle for controling other’s is just that same old basic sin of selfishness – it manifests in lying, cheating, stealing, manipulating, you name it… but it’s all the same thing – not loving others as we love ourselves.