Dave

Mark, you said, “You are streching things are little thin don’t you think.”
No, I don’t think so. The passage uses the following logical links with each relationship being linked to Christ.

Submit to one another out of reverance for Christ.
Wives submit to husbands as the church to Christ.
Husbands love wives as Christ loved the church.
Children obey parents in the Lord.
Fathers don’t exasperate children but instruct them in the Lord.
Slaves obey earthly masters as you would Christ (your heavenely master).
Masters be a master who remembers your common master – Jesus.

The passage shows the same logic through out. Now, you tell me where in the passage it says explicitly that the husband/wife relationship is different, not cultural but God ordained hierarchy. All the relationships are linked with Christ – how is the husband wife one different?