People marry for different reasons. Some say love. Others choose to go for legitimate sex. Still one or two to beget heirs. In shot gun marriages it is because of the impending birth of a child.
I am looking at Zelda. She has a fairly long list of criteria for her husband-to-be. After waiting for seventeen years, she seems to find them all in one man. But funnily, out of the love-struck eyes, she realizes that she has higher earning power than him. Next she realizes that she is smarter than him.
If you are a practising Christian, then the word "submission" would not look foreign to you. That day she asked me how a woman who is smarter and who has higher earning capacity can submit to a "lesser" man.
There can be many answers to this question. Here I offer one possible version: In the first place, if brain power and earning capability are not included in the long list, then it is obvious that they are not that important to her. Next, if she can earn well and do not mind sharing it with a hard working but not a high income earner, there is no issue. If it is going to be a partnership situation in the proposed marriage, then even the imbalance in brain power is not going to be a problem. After all, she will fore see what he can't. As long as he loves her and looks out for her, she will have sufficient influence over him.
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