Recently a young woman I know did several things that impressed me in her marriage, so I thought I’d share them with you. Just because someone hasn’t been married very long, doesn’t say all of us can’t pick up tips from the way their marriage works.
The first thing was she supports her husband in the work he is doing. He had to give an important talk to a large number of people. Even though she had a heap of things needing to be done over the next few days, she decided this was more important as it was happening that evening. She spent time encouraging him, time to read over what he had prepared, to offer suggestions where it worked really well and where maybe it could be improved. He, on the other hand was able to take her loving comments and change the talk without taking offence.
They have the kind of marriage where they can be honest with each other and supportive of each other. If the situation had been reversed, as they were recently when she was the one giving a big talk on a sensitive and controversial topic, he was just as helpful and supportive of her.
Another thing she did was to pray for him as he was giving the talk. He knew she would be doing this and asking for God’s enabling for him as he delivered the talk. It happened the other way when she was the one giving the talk.
The third thing she did was telling other people how great his talk was and what an impact it had on those listening. They didn’t know she’d put time in helping him, or praying. They just knew she was there while he was doing the talk. But those at the event sure knew how proud she was of him afterwards. It was there in her face, in her words and actions.
Next time your spouse does something great don’t keep it a secret, tell them how proud you are of them. But don’t stop there. Tell other people how clever or special your spouse is and how proud you are of them.
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