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    Practical Ideas for Loving Your Wife

    May 8 2025
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    Practical Ideas for Loving Your Wife

    Date: May 8, 2025

    Guests: ​Jay Payleitner

    Jay Payleitner shares practical advice to husbands about how to take the initiative and “be the man” that their wives need. With humor and lots of encouragement, he offers creative ideas about knowing what your wife likes, being a spiritual leader, anticipating drift in marriage. Jay offers the formula: Do, Model, Teach. Do (be the best Christian man you can be); Model (let children see you ask for forgiveness) and Teach (instruct children in Scripture, read the Word and sing praise songs and volunteer). Jay concludes by saying that husbands don’t need to spend a lot of money to do things that express their love and he encourages them to make little investments regularly in this vital relationship with their wives.

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    READ: The importance of husbands' emotional engagement

    READ: Checking your attitude toward your spouse

    READ: What does it mean to be the "spiritual leader" in your family?

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