(1) Give up your dream of a “Perfect marriage,” and work toward a “Good marriage.” There are no perfect marriages for the simple reason that there are no perfect people. Marriage is the most difficult and complex of all human relationships, and it requires patience, skill, tact, emotional and spiritual growth. You can “grow a good marriage” if you are willing to work at it.
(2) Keep personal attractiveness. Keep yourself looking nice. What husbands see is extremely important.
(3) Read some good books. Reading keeps you thinking, creative, and trying new things. It keeps you interesting and alive.
(4) Discover your husband’s personal, unique needs and try to meet them. He is not precisely like any other person on earth. He, like you, is unique.
(5) Welcome his romantic advances.
(6) Become actively involved in lovemaking. Your husband’s positive feelings about himself and your romance depend a lot on your active participation.
(7) Be creative in initiating lovemaking. God intended for you to enjoy this aspect of marriage as much as your husband.
(8) Give praise and appreciation instead of seeking it. Reassure him of his manliness. The husband’s manliness is very important to him. Compliment him at every opportunity. It pays big dividends.
(9) Abandon all hopes of changing your husband through criticism or attack. The “Now look here!” stance never works. It breeds hostility, and often a counterattack. We can change no other person by direct action. We can change only ourselves; and when we change, others tend to change in reaction to us. Love changes people. Hostility breeds hostility; but love begets love. Love does not demand, it give.
(10) Love cannot take distance. A husband and wife need time together enjoying life and sharing. Be a good listener, sensitive to his moods; and interested in his interests.
A Wife Of A Noble Character
A WIFE of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls. She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night. In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.
She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and purple. Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes. She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
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