What if a Wife Struggles to Submit?
Fierce Marriage
Ryan and Selena Frederick
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Modern culture has branded "submission" as an outdated, oppressive concept, but the Bible describes it as the very fertilizer that allows a marriage to thrive. Today, we dive deep into the real reasons wives struggle to submit, the danger of the "jellyfish husband," and the importance of sacrificial leadership.
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| 0:00.0 | The goal of this right now is to help husbands understand the real reasons for the struggle. |
| 0:05.9 | I think godly women genuinely want to submit. |
| 0:08.2 | They struggle with real struggles to try and get there. |
| 0:10.8 | You're trying to help husbands see that, understand it, so that they can lead better, in turn, build stronger, healthier marriages. |
| 0:15.7 | And wives can do it with a better sense of, I'm living this out, I may be sacrificially. |
| 0:20.5 | I think there obviously is an |
| 0:22.0 | aspect of submission to that is called to be sacrificial, just as in your love as a husband to a wife |
| 0:27.8 | is sacrificial. |
| 0:36.1 | Selena, on the fierce men's side, and also just in life, right? |
| 0:39.1 | Believe it or not, we have lives. |
| 0:40.1 | We have life offline. |
| 0:43.0 | We have lives that aren't on the podcast. |
| 0:45.3 | A lot of guys I talk to, they wonder, as they're stepping into headship, they wonder, |
| 0:49.7 | why does my wife find it so hard to submit to my leadership, even though she says she wants to, |
| 0:56.7 | even though she, I know she loves God. |
| 0:58.6 | Sure. |
| 1:00.0 | So why do you think? |
| 1:01.3 | Well, you just, I think you answered your own question. |
| 1:03.1 | If he's beginning to step into this headship, he might be battling some old habits. |
| 1:07.9 | He might be battling some old attitudes and some old ways. So it's all |
| 1:13.2 | on him? No, of course not. Marriage is too. Of course not. I'm just saying that that could be part of it. |
| 1:19.8 | You got to earn the trust of that. But even if you don't have the trust and even if you've been, |
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