Love and respect are the two key ingredients that foster a strong and blissful relationship both in marriage and courtship especially in our African setting.
Both are not necessarily lips service but practical demonstration. Some individuals are not really kin on this, but African cultural breads will still insists on this subject of submissiveness.

Today, female gender education cum financial independence pose a great challenge to the insistence of the male gender.

It's a question of give and take. Are women willing to submit to men base on certain conditions?