Blake Robert Templeton argues that a wife's nurturing should not become mothering that manages a man's emotions and decisions. He warns this dependence prevents him from leading the family and references 1 Corinthians 13:11 on leaving childish dependence behind.
All this gets overlooked. So the woman has a primal role, nurturer, and it's so powerful, but she should not become your mother. Like, her nurture is a gift. It meets all your internal needs of affirmation. It soothes your wounds from the battlefield. But if it becomes distorted because she has to now manage your emotions, your decisions, your maturity, that's so confusing because you become emasculated. Her nurturing needs to actually empower you to step back up into king and lead the family. So instead of leaning on her to regulate you, receive her encouragement and then rise into king and lead with settled strength. 1 Corinthians 13:11 says, When I became a man, I did away with childish things.
