pinklight

When you say this it seems to imply that your wife doesn’t have the authority to tell the kids when they can leave the table.

I think Mark is saying that she indeed does have authority to tell the kids when they can leave the table even if Mark is present, but that she gives the descision power to the father as she believes she is commanded to do. So she has the authority because they are her children, but she doesn’t use it over the head of the home, the father.

Mark doesn’t have to exercise his “right” of authority because his wife places herself under his authority. It would be sin for her from her perspective (and Mark’s) to not give the descion power over to the father of the home.

Is this right, Mark? (Gotta double check)