{"id":32951,"date":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/22\/wives-learn-the-7-of-the-greatest-needs-of-a-husband-and-you-can-start-to-understand-how-to-make-your-marriage-work-better\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T14:00:56","slug":"wives-learn-the-7-of-the-greatest-needs-of-a-husband-and-you-can-start-to-understand-how-to-make-your-marriage-work-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wives-learn-the-7-of-the-greatest-needs-of-a-husband-and-you-can-start-to-understand-how-to-make-your-marriage-work-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Wives, Learn 7 of the Greatest Needs of a Husband, and You can start to Understand how to make your Marriage work better!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We previously shared 7 of the greatest needs of a wife<\/a><\/strong>, by Ron Edmondson<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>based on his personal observation and experience working with married couples.\u00a0Today he\u00a0continued with the man\u2019s side of the needs.<\/p>\n

Here are 7 of the greatest needs of a man.<\/b><\/p>\n

(1) Respect<\/strong> <\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2013 This is number one!\u00a0I would even be emphatic and say every time. In my experience, men are using a different word that means this if they say it isn\u2019t!Ephesians 5:33<\/a> says,<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.\u201d God knew what He was talking about. Men want to know that they are respected by their wives above every other person. Every man feels\u00a0this internal pressure to excel. We need to be successful at least one place in our life.\u00a0If we can\u2019t feel that\u00a0respect in our home, we will find that somewhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ladies, you want your husband to love you unconditionally. Are you willing to respect him unconditionally? You probably aren\u2019t always extremely \u201clovable.\u201d (I can say that through my blog where I\u2019d be afraid to say it in person\u2014but you know it\u2019s true.) He\u2019s probably not always respectable. Do you want to be loved any less when you aren\u2019t at your \u201cbest\u201d? Neither does he in the area of respect.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(2)\u00a0<\/strong>Admiration<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2013 Men want to be desirable to their wives.\u00a0That\u2019s physically, but in other ways too. Are we strong enough\u2014masculine enough for you? Do we meet all your expectations in a man? If our wife is always commenting on the sexier man\u00a0in the movies or\u00a0the more successful man in the world, we certainly will not feel admired.\u00a0As an example, if a family struggles financially and the wife complains about it all the time, the man hears that as \u201cI\u2019m not good enough.\u201d\u00a0The greatest assurance of the fact that we have \u201cwhat it takes\u201d comes from our wives. Men who don\u2019t sense this will often quit trying.<\/p>\n

Ladies, if your husband\u2019s success was proportional to your admiration of him\u2014and the communication of that admiration\u2014how successful will he be?<\/p>\n

(3)\u00a0<\/strong>Peace and Tranquility<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2014 I get in trouble with this one, but men want their home to be a place to prepare for the world\u2014they want to be able to relax.\u00a0Men, that is\u00a0never an excuse for laziness!\u00a0(Laziness is a sin by the way.)\u00a0I know this can be an ouch statement, but men want their wives to be their wife, and not their mother! Plus, and this is so important to understand, nagging\u00a0never accomplishes what the wife hopes it will.\u00a0It may get done what you wanted done, but not with the heart or attitude you hoped to go with the action.\u00a0(If you are raising boys, remember this!)<\/p>\n

Ladies, is your home a place of peace and tranquility? Someone said the wife\/mother is the thermostat of the home? If that\u2019s true, how comfortable are we living?<\/p>\n

(4)\u00a0<\/strong>Commitment<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2013 Yes, men want this too!\u00a0They want to know they are number one with you.\u00a0Men don\u2019t want to see their wife looking at other men or hear them commenting on how wonderful another man may be.\u00a0They want to know you are faithful only to them.\u00a0(Can you women tell we have shallow and fragile egos?)<\/p>\n

Ladies, does your husband know he\u2019s number one to you\u2014that no man could ever take his place?<\/p>\n

(5)\u00a0<\/strong>Acceptance\/Participation<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2013 Husbands aren\u2019t really looking for a wife who will try to change them.\u00a0Granted many men need changing, but the Biblical way to do this is through prayer and modeling change for us. Men also want our wives to appreciate our hobbies and interests, since it is so much a part of who we are as men. You don\u2019t have to love golf, but to know that the\u00a0lower\u00a0score is the better is a great plus when we come home after a good game.\u00a0He\u2019ll need to brag to someone. He\u2019s hoping that someone is you.<\/p>\n

Ladies, would your husband say you\u2019re his biggest fan?<\/p>\n

(6)\u00a0<\/strong>Be able to lead<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2013 Most men want to lead in their home, but don\u2019t really know how. The wife should allow her husband to make some mistakes and not criticize us when we can\u2019t do something as well as you can (which we know is many things!). If we take the effort to fix the bed, don\u2019t go behind us and straighten the comforter (or at least don\u2019t let us see you doing it). If we find we can\u2019t compete in an area, we just quit trying. Applaud what we do right, and we\u2019ll try harder to please.\u00a0We really do want to succeed!<\/p>\n

Ladies, are you allowing your husband to sense your satisfaction in his abilities to lead? If you want him to lead, ask yourself, are you willing to follow if he does?<\/p>\n

(7)\u00a0<\/strong>An emotional release<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u2013 I saved the hardest for last. Most men do not know how to function in a highly emotional context. So, when our wives are upset, we panic. We move into a \u201cfixing\u201d mode, which is usually counter-productive. When you are emotionally upset, for whatever reason, and you know it isn\u2019t his fault, it\u2019s helpful if you can just let him know the two of you are okay, he didn\u2019t necessarily do anything wrong, it\u2019s not his fault, and there is nothing he needs to do to fix it.<\/p>\n

Ladies, does your husband ever feel responsible for your emotions that are completely out of his control?<\/p>\n

\"lebron-james-and-savannah-brinson\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We previously shared 7 of the greatest needs of a wife, by Ron Edmondson\u00a0based on his personal observation and experience working with married couples.\u00a0Today he\u00a0continued with the man\u2019s side of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,296,306,4170,1202,297,298],"tags":[10356,1866,5699],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenicons.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}