Yesterday, I talked about the 10 Things She Needs From Her Husband and I wanted to follow this up with the 10 Things He Needs From His Wife. Guides for husbands and wives are very generic in nature, but there is often a nugget of good information available for all of us in these lists. So even if not all of these apply to your husband, I would imagine that some of them do.
Without further ado, here are the 10 things he needs from his wife:
- He needs her to believe in him and his capabilities, men believe that they need to be the protectors and the providers and they need their wives to believe in them and their capabilities to do just that
- He needs her to be understanding, just because she doesn’t get all the reasons for his choices and even when she doesn’t think he needs something, if he does believe he needs it – then she needs to understand that
- He needs her to compliment and applaud his accomplishments, this is very important because no matter how great you may believe someone is, if you never say it – they don’t necessarily feel it
- He needs acceptance – too often husbands may feel rejected if their wives try to change them – it’s important to remember that they need to be accepted as who they are and not who their wife may envision they could be
- He needs affection, yes, he needs sex too, but he needs to feel attractive and wanted by you and physical affection demonstrates that
- He needs free time, he needs his wife to let him enjoy time with the guys or to kick back and relax without having to feel guilty about it
- He needs trust, because relationships without trust will wither and cripple faster than anything else
- He needs her respect, he doesn’t need sarcastic responses to his thoughts or denigrating remarks about his beliefs
- He needs her to be a companion, husbands want their wives company and sometimes that means going to see movies you may not necessarily want to see or sitting on the sidelines of a pick up game and applauding
- He needs her to less babble, if your husband is in the middle of something and you need to talk to him, don’t spend several sentences building up to your point, just deliver the message – he’ll appreciate it if you’re succinct and be more willing to discuss the details of the rest when he’s done with what he’s doing
What does your husband need?
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