How a Father Can Preside and Still Be an Equal Partner
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Michael HirtDecember 10, 2018
Just as when a father exercises unrighteous dominion by not following the pattern shown in D&C 121 and becomes a dictator and the wife becomes a slave, further unrighteous dominion is exercised when a father inserts himself as a dictator to adult children who now are heads of their own families or are married to husbands that are. When righteous dominion is applied, fathers and multiple grandfathers and great grandfathers can still have appropriate dominion that flows without compulsion forever. A father exercising priesthood authority should never dis-own, belittle, threaten or intimidate but instead use persuasion, longsuffering, patience, kindness, love, charity and other godlike characteristics in order to get the other person to choose better behavior(s). That's what God does with us.
Pete PrattDecember 8, 2018
It's very simple for my wife and me after 54 years of marriage. She tells me [husband] what to do and I do it, under the authority of my priesthood when appropriate.
MikeDecember 8, 2018
Jesse Evans Smith, wife of Joseph Fielding Smith (President of the Q12 for decades and later President of the church) used to say, my husband may be presiding over the family but I am conducting. She was his third wife and helped raise almost a dozen children of his previous wives, not an easy task, including Amelia the youngest who married Bruce R. McConkie. She was a great example of how a wife can be an equal partner even when surrounded by strong-wllled, great men of influence and power.
StaceyDecember 7, 2018
Good article. Thank you for your insight. Please consider an additional aspect to "equality" in marriage. If you look up equality in the topical guide it will point you to 2 Cor. 8:14 "But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:" and then, the topical guide will also point you to consecration for additional understanding on equality in marriage. It starts to become clear to me what the brethren were really saying in the Family Proclamation regarding equality between a husband and a wife in a covenant marriage.
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