We are encouraged to look at the state of relationships in society and reflect how it parallels our and the church's relationship with Christ. We see in the book of Hosea that God commanded the prophet to take a wife that had remained unfaithful to him to parallel that Jesus had taken a partner that was unfaithful during the Old Covenant with Israel and unfaithful members of the church in the New Covenant. We see that in modern society the breakdown that occurred between marriages first started with a greater proportion of men being unfaithful turning into a greater proportion of women being unfaithful with the rise of feminism and related movements. Tactics like gaslighting have been employed to make the suspicious partner feel paranoid about even being wary. A proper relationship, both with our spouses and with Christ, is one where we want to "grow in every good way together" and where there is a full integration and merger. We are called upon to follow the example of Proverbs 31 and look to the virtuous woman to see how to be good partners to Christ.