{"id":7418,"date":"2015-12-31T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=7418"},"modified":"2024-08-26T22:15:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:15:55","slug":"how-to-respect-your-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/how-to-respect-your-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Respect Your Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a new bride, I never really understood what it meant to be respectful to my husband.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure why I would want to go so far out of my way to respect him when I was absolutely certain that I was smarter, more efficient and had more common sense than he did anyway.<\/p>\n

I mean, what if he was inconsiderate or lazy or rude? Should I respect him then?<\/p>\n

But WOW! Do I ever see things differently now—like night and day.<\/p>\n

First of all, it doesn\u2019t feel good to be disrespectful. It feels hairy and dirty.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I\u2019m not as super smarty pants as I once thought. And funny thing—my husband seems a lot smarter than he did back then.<\/p>\n

Finally, I want a respectful relationship, so I figure it\u2019s up to me to bring the respect. I love the playfulness and passion that shows up when I do.<\/p>\n

Respect is a key ingredient for that to continue. I know because I tried leaving it out, and things did not go well around here. At all.<\/p>\n

But even if I\u2019d wanted to be respectful in the bad old days, I probably wouldn\u2019t have known how. It didn\u2019t come all that naturally for me, but leaning on certain phrases helped me get there.<\/p>\n

Saying these phrases didn\u2019t just get a better response from my husband. They also softened my heart. They made me into my best self. I use them all the time, to this day, because they\u2019re how I made my marriage so much fun.<\/p>\n

And they changed the way my husband treats me too. He knows I think highly of him (I really do now!), and he acts like that man I think so highly of.<\/p>\n

Here are the 4 cheat phrases that helped me become the respectful wife I am today:<\/p>\n

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