Cheryl Schatz

Holly,
You also said:

It would seem to me that the natural inclination of man “to rule over” his wife since the fall would mean that men in general would be the ones that need the clear cut directive to be in submission to his wife rather than the other way around. Why do you think that this is not the case?

Submission is not as strong a concept as telling a man to give up completely of himself for his wife even sacrificing himself to the point of dying for her. That kind of sacrifice is more than submission and is more of an opposite of dominating rule than submission is.