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“I’m not the boss in my house. I don’t know how I lost it; I don’t know when I lost it. But I’ve seen the bosees job…and I don’t want it!” – Bill Cosby

I know plenty of women who are perfectly happy letting their husbands “wear the pants”. I also know plenty of men who are perfectly happy letting their wives “rule the roost”. The better question is not “who is in charge” but “what does God want”. Does God really want only one side of the “two become one-flesh” relationship to make the decisions; to have the authority? Is such a scenario even a true reflection of the design of either the two individuals or the unified couple? I find no evidence of that in scripture (or biology). It just doesn’t make any sense to me, and “two are better than one” and “a cord of three strands” and so much more in scripture teaches explicitely against it. Even worse, to actually abdicate responsibility and grant another authority you, Cosby’s humor not withstanding, is to deny both God’s design (for the individual and for marriage) and even His sovereignty (over the individual and the marriage).