The wives are to give way to their husbands, but Paul does not spell out how often that has to be done. There just has to be that reciprocity. Children have a clear duty of obedience, but just as clearly the parents have an obligation not to drive their children to resentment, not to drive them mad. These things are easily said, they are more difficult to practise, and especially family prayer, even to gather at the end of every day or at some set time for a decade of the Rosary. As well as giving glory to God it is also a great help to dissolving family irritations and hurts and disappointments.
Duties remain as duties even when the going is difficult.
I suppose that is what we need the concept of duty for. We can do our duty easily when things are going well. So it is not right to abandon family responsibilities, to seek new loves as we hear so often in the magazines and this sort of thing. All of us, finally, need to develop our capacity for self-discipline and that struggle continues no matter how old we might be or how easy our situation might seem to be. Constant practice is needed.