If your wife feels your unconditional love, she's going to walk a little taller and carry herself with more confidence.

If you take long walks through the neighborhood or pedal bike paths or dance at weddings, you'll both be a little healthier and a little more toned and energetic.

If you take her places where beauty thrives, you know, museums and national parks and flower shows, she's going to reflect that beauty.

Some great advice for your marriage and mine from Jay Pallitner, who wants to help husbands become more attentive and more intentional for their wives.

Thanks for joining us today.

This is Focus on the Family with Jim Daley, and I'm John

Fuller. Intentionality is the key word there, and we're often not as intentional about our marriage

as we should be. I'm guilty of that, and it's true for both men and women. I would think that

men probably don't do it as well as our wives. But over time, we can easily settle into that

routine or the rut, some might call it, a family life, managing the career, keeping busy with the

kids and even serving at church maybe. But somewhere along the way, the relationship with our

spouse starts to slide just a little bit.

And that's not a good thing.

Strong and healthy families are built upon strong and healthy marriages.

I think, you know, Gene and I've been married 38 years now.

And I'd say in the last few years, I've got a better appreciation for that.

And that's certainly what drives us here at Focus on the Family.

We want to equip you and your spouse to have the best marriage possible, one, because that's a great way to do life. Secondly,

it's a great witness to what we believe about our faith in Christ. Today we're going to be

primarily speaking to husbands, but I urge wives to listen in, and you may learn a

couple things too, because the principles really do apply to both of us. Yeah, and Jay Payleitner

is an author, speaker, blogger, and radio producer. He is passionate about strengthening marriages

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