{"id":7735,"date":"2016-05-05T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=7735"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:35:02","slug":"healthy-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/healthy-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get My Husband to Be Healthier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Control and intimacy are opposites. You can\u2019t have intimacy when you\u2019re trying to control the person you\u2019re with, and if you want to be in control, the intimacy will vanish.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one or the other. Like light and dark.<\/p>\n

And everybody knows you can\u2019t control other people, anyway\u2014not your kids, not your spouse, not anyone but yourself.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t stop us mere mortals from trying. Sometimes we don\u2019t even know we\u2019re trying to control. We think we\u2019re just being caring, and trying to help.<\/p>\n

Husbands are too smart to fall for that, though. They know we\u2019re trying to control them when we \u201cremind\u201d them to put on their sunscreen, drink more water, take their medicine or eat a veggie now and then.<\/p>\n

They resist that kind of thing with all their might. That\u2019s just human nature.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s never going to help your husband be healthier.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not to say you have no influence. As a wife, you have plenty.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you can do to help your husband be healthier and live longer:<\/p>\n

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