How to Love Your Husband WellSample

True Love is Patient

Patience is a virtue that is important in our everyday lives. As a wife, one of the easiest things for us to do, often without thinking, is lose our patience. We assume our husbands should know what buttons not to push or what things may upset us. We also expect them to know what we want or how to draw us closer to them. When they do not, it is easy to lose patience and either lash out or draw away.

In loving our husbands well, we must show an extra measure of gentleness and patience. If we look back, our husbands have likely grown to know more of our wants and needs over time. However, they have not and will not attend to them perfectly.

Thus it is essential to become a more self-aware woman and wife. In marriage, lovingly exercising patience requires us to take a proactive approach to both managing and being willing to talk about our buttons, wants, and needs. We must keep in mind that patiently loving our husbands well is less about what they do and more about how we react to them.

We need to remember that patience is the key to loving our husbands well and growing as a wife. Patience also gives us room to continue to grow as individuals and as a couple, regardless of what buttons get pushed or not.

What is the one button your husband often pushes, and you wish he did not? How could you show better patience and grace when he does?

Prayer

Lord, I know I am not without faults, and I pray that you cover those faults as only you can. Please give me the patience and the grace to love my husband well and in the ways he needs. Amen.