Husbands, be tough for your wife, but be tender with her.

Amen.

I wish I would have heard those words as a young man.

Young married man.

As a young married man.

Yes, because there is a toughness about being a man.

There's a toughness about the work that I think is required of men.

Not to say women aren't tough.

Right.

That's not a conversation.

Yeah, I'm not to, please don't read that kind of stuff into it.

But the point here I'm trying to make is that at times our toughness can be toughness in the wrong place.

So we'd be tough for our wives, yet tender with them.

So today we're going to talk through kind of how to do that,

where that phenomenon even really comes from.

Obviously, it comes from scripture, but we're going to unpack that.

And hopefully it'll enliven men's hearts, husband's hearts,

to be tender intentionally with their wives at home and with their children at home

in a way that they aren't outside of the home and and that their toughness would be

amplified by the knowledge knowing that this is a good thing there's a good and

right place to have toughness also I'm hoping that wives will learn maybe how

to understand their husband just a little bit better So we'll do that on the other side.

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