Life Repair

Being a supportive spouse is your job as a spouse. How else will you both make it through the stresses of our modern world?

I know there are many distractions and many temptations to pull you away and apart from your spouse. In fact you both may have very different interests and be involved in very different activities, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t be supportive.

It is quite a task to take on complete and total support (responsibility) for another person.

But didn’t you agree to that in your vows anyway? Look, if things are a little rough don’t pull back from your spouse, do more to help them. Don’t recriminate them, empower them. Don’t point the finger or blame, instead commit yourself to making them a stronger person.

Ways to show your support:

* Respect your partner’s decisions and help them.

* Do things for your spouse that shows them that you believe in them.

* Be there when they need a hand to hold or an ear to bend.

* You are a team, you can let your spouse help you too!

* Show your pride in your spouse’s accomplishments, brag about them! Let your partner see that you        are their very best promoter.

Remember when you were dating? Remember when your marriage was new? Even when things were tough they were good back then. Make you spouse feel the same way you made them feel back then.

Buy her flowers, take her to a movie. send her to the Spa. Send him to a game with his friends, cook him a great steak. Yes, I know that can sound un-PC but we all like those things.

A marriage takes work, it takes communication, it takes thought and planning. If you and your spouse start from the point of “What can I do to help my partner do better and feel better in life?” how bad could it be?

Live well and may your marriage prosper !