Listen and engage, to encourage your wife and draw you closer.
The key for any godly man is to learn how to listen and engage with any concerns, hopes, or requests raised by his wife, without seeing them as personal criticism. Most women, when they want to talk about the relationship, are not saying “you’ve failed”—although we know it sounds like that to you! Instead, they’re saying, “This is an opportunity for us to get closer, and here’s what would help.” For all marriages—especially those that truly need more encouragement and support—showing a desire to get closer is a great first step for any husband who wants to lead his marriage well.
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Shaunti Feldhahn loves sharing eye-opening information that helps people thrive in life and relationships. She herself started out with a Harvard graduate degree and Wall Street credentials but no clue about life. After an unexpected shift into relationship research for average people like her, she now is a popular speaker and author of best-selling books about men, women and relationships. (Including For Women Only, For Men Only, and the groundbreaking The Good News About Marriage).
Her latest book, Find Rest: A Women’s Devotional for Lasting Peace in Busy Life, focuses on a journey to rest even with life’s constant demands.
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