Team up with your spouse to pursue your health goals together.
So men, what can you do about your wife’s concerns about your health? For starters, take her desire for your well-being seriously. And if she’s offered to support you by partnering up for walks, workouts, or other healthy endeavors, take her up on it! Be more active and watch what you eat. Even (gasp!) go to the doctor when you feel sick or you have some other health issue. These small gestures will make her feel really loved. And I bet that love will translate into a desire to be with you and receptiveness to your advances.
Having a shared goal towards health can be a real encouragement as you see the other person make the effort to care for themselves. What a great way to honor each other—now and for a very long time to come!
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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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