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Of course. We are God's. Lock stock and barrel.Neither men's nor women's bodies are their own:
The "limited time" according to Hillel, the grandfather of Paul's mentor Gameliel and founder of the Pharasaic school he attended was one week. Hillel's best friend/main competitor Shammai said 2 weeks.Additionally, in 1 Corinthians 7, we read: "For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again ...."
I guess you could say that 38 years (I think that's how long you said you were married) was a "limited time."
The thing about spiritual authority, it can NEVER EVER be imposed from the top down. It has to be from the consent and willing submission of the one UNDER the authority. No one gets to "lord it over" anyone else.
Mk 10.42 Calling them to Himself, Jesus *said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great men exercise authority over them. 43 But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant; 44 and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.
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