Wives,
Remember C-H-A-I-R-S: How To Spell Respect To Your Husband
Conquest
Hierarchy
Authority
Insight
Relationship
Sexuality
This is the second checklist, Hierarchy, for showing your husband you respect him.
Your husband will feel you appreciate his desire to protect and provide when:
-you verbalize your admiration of him for protecting you and being willing to die for you
-you praise his commitment to provide for and protect you and the family (he needs to know you don't take this for granted)
-you empathize when he reveals his male mind-set about position, status, rank, or being one-up or one-down, particularly at work
-you never mock the idea of "looking up to him" as your protector to prevent him from "looking down on you"
-you never, in word or body language, put down his job or how much he makes
-you are always ready to figuratively "light the candles" as E. V. Hill's wife did when they couldn't afford to pay the light bill
-you quietly and respectfully voice concerns about finances and try to offer solutions on where you might be able to cut spending
Landon - son of LCPL Andrew Carpenter
Some of these things may come naturally to you and others may not. Either way, totally depend on God so he can live through you and help you respect your husband.
Lord protect us,
Marc
Eggerichs, Emerson. "Hierarchy - His Desire to Protect and Provide." Love & respect: the love she most desires, the respect he desperately needs. Nashville, TN: Integrity Publishers ;, 2004. p 213-214. Print.
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