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by Barbara Rainey
Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
Romans 15:2
Who is your closest neighbor? Your husband. And how can you edify (build or improve) your husband and thereby enhance his self-worth, the way the verse above instructs? By discovering--and doing--what pleases him. Here are a few ideas:
1. Write him a letter and send it to his office, or put a love note in his lunch box or his briefcase.
2. Prepare his favorite meal.
3. Arrange an evening out for just the two of you.
4. Wear his favorite dress with your hair done the way he likes it.
5. Purchase something small and frivolous for him that he won't buy himself.
6. Give him a nicely framed picture of yourself, or of you and the children, for his office.
7. Surprise him with a trip to do something he likes.
8. Put the children to bed early and prepare a candlelight dinner.
9. Do something that especially pleased him back when you were dating.
10. Pray and read the Scriptures with him daily.
11. Take walks together.
12. Keep your junk out of the garage.
13. Greet your husband warmly after work.
14. Wear his favorite negligee, or buy a new nightgown to add sizzle to your evening attire.
15. Clean out the car for him.
Sometimes the smallest gesture can make the biggest difference. Pick out something you haven't tried before. Don't give complacency a foothold in your marriage relationship.
Discuss
Husbands, share something your wife has done lately that has pleased you. Why was it so encouraging?
Pray
Wives, ask God to help you think of his needs, making you sensitive to find ways that truly encourage him and put wind beneath his wings.
Happily recovered!and Happily Married :0)
Commit your works to the LORD and your plans will be established.
Proverbs 16:3
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16. Approach him for SF so he knows how attractive you think he is.
17. Give him a footrub at the end of a hard week's work.
18. Shower together regularly. It's fun, and it saves water. Sometimes.
19. Learn something new and interesting to share with him. (I'm not necessarily talking about for the boudoir, but that could count, too.)
20. Have you appreciated him properly today?
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
~ English proverb Neak's Story
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21. While he's not looking, go on a forum where he posts, and tell him you love him.
I LOVE YOU
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
~ English proverb Neak's Story
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I'm bumping this up for the world to see because it is SO SPECIAL and SWEET!!
I made it happen..a joyful life..filled with peace, contentment, happiness and fabulocity.
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18. Shower together regularly. It's fun, and it saves water. Sometimes. Don't listen to her, people! All that steam (shower, et al) is death on the plaster ceilings!!  And now, sir, how about coming up with 15 ways a husband can please his wife? Fair play, and all that...
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And now, sir, how about coming up with 15 ways a husband can please his wife? Fair play, and all that... I was thinking the same thing. Ike needs some ideas or something :-)
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The person who is always finding fault seldom finds anything else.
I pity the fool. - Mr. T
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Hmm. There's a few things missing there. For instance, I don't seee BJ Tuesday........ 
Me: 56 (FBS) Wife: 55 (FWW)
D-Day August 2005
Married 11/1982 3 Sons 27,25,23
Empty Nesters.
Fully Recovered.
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not for nothing here...but I think it helps to remember that these boards are mixed company. I am just shocked at the comments or jokes people feel free to make when it there are both sexes here.
It's funny...actually very funny...I'm just certain it isn't appropriate.
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I also do not see Naked Football in the Living Room. 
Lucky to be where I am, in a safe place to get marriage-related support.
Recovered.
Happy.
Most recent D-day Fall 2005
Our new marriage began that day. Not easily, but it did happen.
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MEDC, I laughed. I'm mixed. 
Lucky to be where I am, in a safe place to get marriage-related support.
Recovered.
Happy.
Most recent D-day Fall 2005
Our new marriage began that day. Not easily, but it did happen.
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I would be very upset at my partner if she were posting on a site where people felt free to make jokes about BJ's and such. It about boundaries...and as well all know, there are a good number of people on here that have shown an inability to maintain proper boundaries.
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While I see your POV Medc, strangely MB is one of the few forums where I would feel safe joking about BJ's and such, since I know no one here would get the wrong idea. Either gender.
JMHO
Recovered marriage, recovering self, life gets better everyday
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I know my husband loves when I think of him during the day and buy him something small like his favorite candy bar or just something like that. It shows that he was on my mind!
FWW-28
BH-41(still claiming 34 LOL!)
DS-3
D-DAY 05/08
EA 07/07-10/07
PA 10/07-12/07
MARRIED 08/19/2001
ON OUR WAY TO RECOVERY
ON MY WAY TO BECOMING A BETTER WIFE
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