Death can result when the ingredients of life are found in disproportion.
Satan is all too happy either to push or pull the couple into an imbalanced distortion of God's design for marriage. In these two final articles, I wish to offer some practical pastoral warnings against imbalanced perversions of the headship-submission dynamic which God intends for our good and for His glory. This distortion of the headship-submission dynamic occurs when the husband takes headship to an extreme and perverts it into a tyrannical dictatorship. He embraces the mandate to give leadership but exceeds the ethical boundaries of love and his leadership becomes destructive. This distortion occurs as well if the wife perverts submission to the place where she is practically nonexistent.