Today, I was reminded how God wires men to want their wives to be happy. Sadly, we don't always know what makes us happy, so our husbands, oftentimes, give up trying.
Won't you tell your man what he does that makes you happy today, even it's the smallest of things? Just start there. Maybe one day, you will be as content with your husband as Anne Bradstreet. Notice how she talks to him in the following poem:
To My Dear and Loving Husband (1678)
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let's so persever,
That when we live no more we may live ever.
--Anne Bradstreet
May we all love, respect, admire, appreciate, and revere our husbands as she.
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