With hit records like “He Loves Me” and “A Long Walk” in her discography, Jill Scott sings about love in a way few other people can. Now, in a recent interview with Angie Martinez, the “Golden” singer talked about the qualities she’s looking for in her perfect partner. Scott said she’s looking for someone who is “fair, firm and consistent.”
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“I’m a dominant submissive in the majority of my life. I’m strong-willed, but if I see the need to be quiet and listen, I will shut up,” she said. “If I feel the need to follow the path, I will follow the path. But if I don’t feel moved by something, I will make my own way. I will follow my own path.”
Scott added that her idea of being submissive is less about control and more about trust. The singer went on to say that although she has a strong will, she’s more than willing to let someone else lead if she feels she can count on them.
“This whole life has been about me finding and maintaining a certain level of peace, so I need to know that you are who you say you are,” she added.
The comment section was loaded with women who felt like Scott was speaking their love language, maintaining that they are more than willing to follow a supportive partner who they believe has their back.
“I thought I was the only one who felt or thought this way. Trusted and peace and supportive leadership over everything,” wrote someone on YouTube.
Others made reference to the Bible verse that calls for wives to submit themselves to their husbands and husbands to submit themselves to the Lord.
“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything,” it reads. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.“
But others disagreed with Scott and the idea of a woman being submissive in a relationship, especially in a time when we can be CEOs and the Vice President of the United States.
“Why do we have to ‘submit’ as women? I don’t like that word. It’s not about submission. It’s about coexisting in harmony,” wrote someone on TikTok.
Whether or not they agreed with her theory, most commenters could agree that Jilly From Philly left them with a lot to think about.
“Wheeww! That hit on so many levels!,” wrote someone on YouTube.
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