Making Your Husband Feel Appreciated
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Whether he verbalizes it or not, your husband wants to feel validated. A little bit of encouragement can go a long way in your relationship. John, Erin and Greg share how wives can encourage their husbands. Featuring Bill and Pam Farrel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.0 | I love it when my wife Dean gives me a compliment for something I did well. Like |
| 0:40.3 | maybe I finished the taxes on time for once or maybe I took the trash out when |
| 0:46.3 | she was expecting that I wouldn't have time for it the morning. What whatever |
| 0:49.4 | it is, it's a small thing. I'm a words of affirmation guy. It makes a big |
| 0:53.0 | difference for me. I'm John Fuller. I'm joined by authors, marriage counselors, |
| 0:57.4 | and focus on the family staff members, Dr. Greg and Erin Smolley, and we're |
| 1:01.5 | going to pivot now to a conversation that we heard a little bit of last time. |
| 1:05.9 | Bill and Pam Farrell talked with Jim Daley and me about how women, especially |
| 1:11.1 | women, want to be listened to. And they have more about that. And they'll also |
| 1:16.0 | address how wives can show appreciation to their husbands. Let's go ahead and |
| 1:19.8 | listen in. So this guy, I would tell this guy, ask her, what is she looking for from |
| 1:24.6 | you? That clarifying question has helped me so much. I mean, just this morning, in |
| 1:29.4 | fact, I just casually foolishly asked my wife, I said, how you doing? She said, right |
| 1:36.8 | now my emotions are just a bowl of spaghetti. And I had the wherewithal to just say, oh, tell |
| 1:45.4 | me. And so for about 10 minutes, she just went from zing, zing, zing, zing, zing. And I knew |
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