“Grant is the provider and protector of the home,” she said. “I get to come under his care in a way that’s not like, ‘Oh, I have to,’ but in a way where I feel safe.”
She added, “For me, there’s this respect and this honoring that I give Grant, not because I have to, [but] because it’s the way in which God calls us to and in the way that I truly have found to feel the freest and the most content in our marriage.”
In the end, Madi considers her submission to mean she has “honor” and “respect” for Grant and that the pair “have equal rights.”
“Not one person is more important than the other, not one person has a bigger voice than the other, not one person has the dominating authority over the other,” she said. “We have the same rights. We just have different roles.”
“What God calls for when you get married is there to be a laying your life down for one another, a service to one another,” Madi concluded. “You’re serving the other person. You’re not just thinking about yourself all the time.”
While Madi and Grant responded to backlash for her use of the word “submissive,” it’s not the first time their comments have raised eyebrows. Read on to see what else the pair have said over the years.
