Who's the boss?
Early church father John Chrysostom (A.D. 347-107) said “God maintained the order of each sex by dividing the business of life into two parts, and assigned the more necessary and beneficial aspects to the man and the less important, inferior matters to the woman.” That statement should have you falling about the room with laughter! Some of you may also remember how we laughed and were entertained by a television show a number of years ago starring Judith Light and Tony Danza when they tried to work on their complicated relationship in ‘Who’s the Boss’. Relationship issues are not so funny however when it is happening a little closer to home. I am often asked questions about who makes the final “judgement call”, who is the boss or priest in the home? My answer always is simply ‘the one who has the toolbox’. If two people in a close relationship cannot reach a decision then the person who has the experience or the one most affected by the decision is the one who makes the call. My