One of the points I try to drive home as often as I can is that God’s way of doing things isn’t a series of arbitrary hoops for us to jump through that make our lives harder just because.

Rather, they make us happier and more fulfilled than doing things our own way.

It’s kind of like how following the IKEA instructions step by step make for a smoother process and a better finished product than throwing the booklet away and insisting we know what to do. Maybe the designer knows a thing or two about His own design, you know?

So, it makes sense that when we go our own way on an issue like gender roles, it only leads to frustration.

One clear example of this can be seen in the case of what is called “the mental load.”

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