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Great marriages happen when spouses are supportive and loving. In the hustle of life, it's easy to forget to share the positives about a spouse. Insightful wife and author Annie Chapman draws on her 30-year marriage to offer key areas a wife can watch to discover unique ways her husband makes a difference and then gives specific suggestions for telling him...his needs are noticed, understood, and supportedhis opinions are wanted and respectedhis thoughtfulness shines when he meets family needshis work is admiredhis interactions with his kids makes a tremendous impactAnnie provides a wealth of ideas for letting a husband know he is loved and encouraging him to be the man God created him to be. Private and public affirmations assure a man he is important and vital, which help him excel at home, at work, and in the community.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 août 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736941976
Langue	English

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Annie Chapman

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
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WHAT EVERY WIFE WANTS HER HUSBAND TO KNOW
Formerly published as 10 Things I Want My Husband to Know
Copyright 2007 by Annie Chapman
Published 2011 by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chapman, Annie. [10 things I want my husband to know] What every wife wants her husband to know / Annie Chapman. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-7369-2990-5 (pbk.) ISBN 978-0-7369-4197-6 (eBook)
1. Husbands-Religious life. 2. Husbands-Conduct of life. 3. Marriage-Religious aspects-Christianity. 4. Husband and wife. 5. Man-woman relationships-Religious aspects-Christianity. I. Title.
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Contents
Building a Marriage That Sparkles
I Want My Husband to Know ...
1. I Will Love Him with Pure, Unconditional Love
2. I Acknowledge Him as the God-Appointed Leader of Our Family
3. I Am Sexually Available to Him
4. I Will Do My Part to Create a Safe and Secure Home
5. I Admire the Way He Provides for Our Family
6. I Will Show Love to His Family
7. I Will Support and Embrace His Hobbies and Friends
8. I Am Honored to Be the Mother of His Children
9. I Respect Him
10. I Am Aware He Needs Me to Take Care of My Body
How Best to Love Your Husband
Notes
Contact the Author
More Books by Steve and Annie Chapman
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Building a Marriage That Sparkles
M Y LIFE AS A MARRIED WOMAN began on March 29, 1975, when I stood in front of family and friends in a quaint, little Methodist church and made some serious promises to a young man sporting an Art Garfunkel-style hairdo. My bushy-haired beloved was wearing lime-green polyester slacks, cowboy boots, and a homemade muslin shirt. He looked soooooooo far out. Since Steve and I were products of the hippie era of the late 1960s and early 70s, we decided it would not be cool to repeat vows that had been recited for eons. No, in our youthful exuberance for being different and with love oozing out of every pore of our enlightened bodies, we were convinced that we knew more than those who had come before us. Hence, we decided to create our own vows.
When it came time for the covenants to be exchanged during the marriage ceremony, Steve frantically realized he d left our carefully crafted words of commitment in his Bible that was sitting on a windowsill far across the sanctuary. Alrighty then! With no help from our cheat-sheets, we were on our own to come up with something memorable and meaningful to say to one another.
I have no idea what lofty, sincerely optimistic promises we made to one another that day. And, sadly, we will never know what was spoken. The 8-track tape recorder (yes, you read it right an 8-track!) that was supposed to record our ceremony was unfortunately placed beside a young, brain-dead couple who decided to bring their newborn infant to our wedding. When we eagerly rewound the tape to listen to our heartwarming words of commitment, all we heard was the screeching wails of a baby who was not enjoying our wedding. Even though our pledges of love and devotion were not documented on tape that rainy day, I can assure you we meant every word we said. Now, these many decades later, we are still bound by those love-struck promises whatever they were.
I must admit that being married to my husband, Steve, these many years has been, by far, the easiest job-and joy-I ve ever had. My experience has thankfully been nothing like one spouse who was asked, How long have you been married? The reply was, It s been five years of marital bliss-ters! Much to the contrary, my years are best described by the old song from my far-distant days of youth called To Know Him Is to Love Him.
One of the things about Steve I cherish most is that he tries to live by the biblical directive to husbands found in 1 Peter 3:7: Husbands live with your wives in an understanding way. I know it might sound too good to be true, but Steve really does want to know how I feel and even urges me to tell him. For example, I remember distinctly a specific moment in our dating days that told me he cared about what I thought. It happened when Steve wanted to take me to dinner. When I sat down in the passenger seat of the 1950 Chevy he was driving, he asked, Where would you like to go eat?
I answered, Wherever you want to eat.
He asked again, Where would you like to eat?
Again I said in a pseudo-submissive tone, Wherever you d like to eat.
His response was direct but delivered with gentleness. If I didn t want to know where you d like to eat, I wouldn t ask. That was the day I realized it was safe and even appropriate to express my desires and needs. How grateful I am for that revelation as well as the freedom. Others have not been as fortunate.
For some women, sharing their deepest concerns as wives, as well as their sincere wishes about how their husbands handle their roles in the relationship, is the greatest challenge they ve ever faced. And then there are the wives who are in marriages that fall between these two positions. Their marriages are good but they wonder if they can be even better. What Every Wife Wants Her Husband to Know will help you build a stronger, more dynamic union.
In my research, which included conversations with wives regarding what they wanted their husbands to know, the following issues rose to the top. A wife longs for her husband to understand that:
she really wants to love him and feel loved in return
she wants to fully embrace and achieve the God-ordained, scripturally ordered cooperation in the home
she wants to truly enjoy the privilege of sexual intimacy without guilt or regret
she wants to bridge the divide that occurs as a result of the everyday challenges of juggling finances, children, hobbies, and in-laws
she wants the comfort of knowing that both of them will bravely face the sometimes daunting issues of health and aging
a deep and abiding respect for one another is the foundation for their strong and lasting relationship
The good news is that while it may be a very real challenge for a wife to help her husband see and feel how emotionally important these issues are to her, it is not only possible to do so, but it can be done with expectations of great results. To live these principles and communicate them to your husband takes some good, solid insights along with a little feminine finesse. The finesse is something you already possess. What I am offering in this book are the insights and the nuts and bolts of putting them into practice.
Within these pages is a collection of wisdom gleaned from various resources. First and foremost, the very best insight I can pass along to you comes from the life-changing Word of God. Nothing else on earth is capable of doing what God s written Word can do. Hebrews 4:12-13 reveals that it can literally cut through the hardest of fleshly armor, that it lays bare our hearts. With our lives open to the Great Physician, He then can repair and prepare our hearts so that they can beat in harmony with those we love.
In addition to scriptural insights, I offer my own experiences as a married woman of more than 30 years, as well as contributions from other written sources. I conducted a nonscientific survey by handing out questionnaires to hundreds of women and some of their husbands. The knowledge they generously shared from their collective decades of marriage is also included in this book. With their unique perspectives and priceless participation, you ll find this book even more helpful and practical.
Though I realize there are more than ten things a wife wants her husband to know, I ve focused on the crucial concerns for married women. Whether you have been a spouse for a few days or many years, I am confident you will find this book interesting and helpful in making your marriage deeper and more fulfilling.
May God bless each of you as you read these chapters and talk with your husbands.
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I Want My Husband to Know
I Will Love Him with Pure, Unconditional Love
W HEN ANY OF MY SINGLE , but soon-to-be-married friends would get together and drool over bride magazines and giggle with anticipation while they picked out their wedding dresses, I was the one in the group who would be throwing barbs and jeers their way. When one of them would speak in dreamy terms about Mr. Right and how all she wanted was to be a wife and mother, I was quick to offer my skeptical retorts about screaming