A WIFE'S SUBMISSION IS VOLUNTARY!!!
It would be interesting to note that forced submission is not true submission; it is subjugation. Submission is always freely chosen and willingly given. Even though submission is commanded for the wife, her compliance is voluntary. As far as her husband is fulfilling his responsibility and seeking to love her with the same kind of sacrificial, self-giving love with which Christ loved the church, a wife has the responsibility to submit to him, "in everything". Her failure to be in submission to her husband's headship is sin. In other words, a wife's submission to a godly husband is not a demeaning or demoralizing act. Submission doesn't mean humiliation or abject subjection of a wife's personality and will to the whim and will of her husband. Submission also means that a wife acknowledges her husband's headship as spiritual leader and guide for the family. It has nothing whatsoever to do with her denying or suppressing her will, her spirit, ...