3 Reasons You Should NOT Gossip About Your Husband (and One Reason You Should!)

Reason #3: You’re Helping Other Women Undermine Their Own Marriages!

I don’t know when we ever had the idea that gossiping and complaining about our men is okay—since we tell our kids that gossiping and complaining about people is not okay! But if we ever needed another reason to resist the temptation, this is it: by engaging in a griping, teasing, story-telling, “wait until you hear THIS one” session, we aren’t just hurting our own marriages—we are participating in the destruction of our friends’ marriages, too.

When I first realized that, it brought me up short. I was very, very convicted about those times I had engaged in what I viewed as a “harmless” gripe session. I knew I had a great husband. Despite various issues in our marriage in the early years, I knew he loved me. I knew he was a good man. And the men my friends were married to were good men, too. How dare I participate in egging on the gossip—merely by participating in it!—and tearing down the beautiful marriages they were longing for?

Our words have consequences. And I know all of us want those consequences to be good, not destructive.