It is liberal to deny or PRACTICALLY NEGATE the churches teaching on something. Especially so when you use the "modern age" to negate it. God always finds a way for those who love him. A woman who loves God and her husband deeply can still commit mortal sins. If she receives punishment for this, she should THANK the good Lord for such a husband.

It is also total naivety of so many trads to think that the prideful manipulation of so many trad women is not a serious matter. Depends on the object, of course, but it can lead to very serious consequences especially with relation to the children. (refusing to homeschool is a common one, NFP is another... perhaps we can list going to an SSPX Mass?)

We are not angels and our reason is hindered. Corporal punishment is Gods merciful way of helping us to be just.

Ratcheer...

DZ P

I'm sorry, guys, but my experience is that love and affection are the strongest motivators for women.  If you give them love, affection, and your attention, they'll love you to death and will not stray.  If you give your wife all the love she has a right to, almost without fail "obedience" isn't even a problem.  It's not even a "thing", as it were.  "Husbands, love your wives."  How many men, while blustering about THEIR rights, forget about the right of their wife to be loved.  Wives who are loved like this will simply WANT to do anything they think will please their husbands and there's never a question of having to "force" them to do anything.  You simply tell them what would please you and make you happy ... and they do it.  No need to rage and bluster and beat.  Try it.  You might like that kind of relationship.

Man's reasoning ability is often limited by his emotions.

Relevance?

Today with improper diets and lack of sleep, inordinate rage is commonplace.

Relevance?

A man might judge his wife to be disobedient and lazy when she is simply tired due to allergies, anemia, arthritis, Lyme disease, and/or her pregnancy, when she is uneducated to teach advanced math, science, and the arts due to her lack of any college education, and when she is simply scared at her husband's senseless rage where he strikes her and her children for the smallest and inappropriate reasons.

Relevance? What was the topic again?

A man might even be jealous that his wife gets to stay home and do the housework, not realizing how much work it entails with the children constantly complaining, crying, and demanding her attention so that she finds it difficult to rest or to pray.

Relevance? If you've been rashly judged and subject to injustice, then I'm sorry; however, the topic is predicated upon the wife, and not the husband, actually being "the villain" here. 

A man is not like God. He lacks justice.

Entirely? Too bad God leaves us hangin' like that, it almost seem unjust. 

Look at the saints. They practiced heroic patience, love, kindness, gentleness, meekness, and humility. Those virtues should be exercised rather than focus on corporal

Let's look at the OP again, and see exactly where, when, how or if CORPORAL punishment was mentioned. Regardless, the TOPIC is what again?

punishment as a kind glance and a loving disposition by a husband will often assist a wife to do overcome her fear of failure and/or immobilizing fear of punishment.

Do not forget that husbands do kill their wives,

Seems a bit severe, granted.

especially their pregnant wives, and that pregnancy is a dangerous time for women.

Are you "The Real Slim Shady", or perhaps a pregnant woman? This emotional appeal is coming in manipulative and unreadable.

What should the proper punishment be for a disobedient wife?  I'm not talking about one that has committed adultery, but rather one that flouts her husband's authority in other matters.  Should the husband beat her?  Should the husband refuse to permit her to leave the family home?  In a Catholic society, should the courts punish her?