If you're a wife, do you find that your husband sometimes needs you to deflate his ego?

Here's Shanti Feldhan.

The male ego is the most fragile thing on the planet.

And what's happening when you're puncturing him in that way, it's not that he started out with this inflated sense of self and has somehow been brought down to ground level.

What's happening in his heart is that he down to ground level, what's happening in

his heart is that he started below ground level and he's just dug a tunnel somewhere, as opposed

to we have a responsibility to build him up and lift him up, and just the same way that we want

him to do that with us and other areas of our life.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned.

For February 1st, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

What of our all-time most popular series here at Revive Our Hearts is called For Women Only.

That's also the name of a book by Shanti Feldhan.

When this series aired on Revive Our Hearts some years ago, a man contacted us to comment on it. He told us he'd been to

many marriage conferences, seeing all kinds of videos and books on marriage. Then he said this,

please hear me when I say that I have heard nothing more powerful and hopeful to me than today's

message. Each day, when I wake and venture into the world, I can

handle almost anything that life throws at me, even to the point of being diagnosed with cancer

eight years ago. But my wife's criticism, lack of support, lack of trust, and lack of respect for me,

leaves me utterly and totally broken inside,

filled with deep, deep pain. Does that reflect your husband's heart? Think about that question

as we return to that original series, for women only. Our guests this week are Barbara Rainey, the wife of Dennis Rainey, the co-founder of Family

Life Today.

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