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Alex #55
Let me first qualify my comments by saying I am new to the comp/egal debate and a new commenter on this blog.

Your example about homeschooling is interesting. I am noticing from listening to Acts29 pastors on marriage, womanhood, & manhood they, too, are qualifying the husband’s authority with similar examples. I.e. a wife being instructed that bed rest for the duration of her pregancy was best, but she keeps cleaning & shopping because she prefers to be busy; it is part of her nature; so the husband leading in his authority says, “I need for you to submit to me in this. I need you to trust me in this. I need for you to stay in bed next several weeks for your and the baby’s health….”; the husband then dies to self taking care of the house, meals, and his wife.

From your HS’ing example and this one and others like it, I do not see anything a husband is doing that a wife shouldn’t do. She, too, should “lead” when decisions need to be made by appealing to facts that that may affect a positive outcome or “lead” when the husband is not well by imploring him to follow dr’s orders and die to self to help the husband for his own well-being.

Even in your example, the wife *agreed* after a hearing of her husbands objections. I don’t see how your example is unique to complementarianism, other than you say there exists a “leading” to make the final decision, which in practicallity does not exists in the example you gave.