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When I read Eph 5, I tend to incorporate what the body IS as said in 1 Co 12 and when I do this I am reluctant to accept a head/body metaphor.

The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body (eye, hand, head, feet etc).

14Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.

18But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
 21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”