ENCOURAGING YOUR WIFE TO BE CONTENTED IN THE HOME, NO. 5.
5. Sympathize with her difficulties and failures rather than always lecturing her.
A lecture may be appropriate once in awhile. But, it can get hard to take when all she needs and looks for is sympathy and understanding and instead, all she gets is another lecture. No wonder many women want to be free of the home and go back to the work place.
Men, we would be wise to be more understanding, sympathetic, and consoling when our wives have had a rough day with the children.
Maybe she didn't get home in time to cook the meal you expected when you got home, but she did the family shopping. Perhaps the meal burnt. Or, she feels she has failed the Lord because she doesn't have enough time to pray. There can be a thousand and one things that place your wife under pressure, and the last thing she needs from you is another lecture that will only make her feel more negative about herself.
You are the one she wants when she needs a shoulder to cry on. Help her to knows that she can get all she needs right in her own home.
Be encouraged. Colin
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A lecture may be appropriate once in awhile. But, it can get hard to take when all she needs and looks for is sympathy and understanding and instead, all she gets is another lecture. No wonder many women want to be free of the home and go back to the work place.
Men, we would be wise to be more understanding, sympathetic, and consoling when our wives have had a rough day with the children.
Maybe she didn't get home in time to cook the meal you expected when you got home, but she did the family shopping. Perhaps the meal burnt. Or, she feels she has failed the Lord because she doesn't have enough time to pray. There can be a thousand and one things that place your wife under pressure, and the last thing she needs from you is another lecture that will only make her feel more negative about herself.
You are the one she wants when she needs a shoulder to cry on. Help her to knows that she can get all she needs right in her own home.
Be encouraged. Colin
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