Understanding and Meeting Your Spouse's Needs (Part 2)
"A woman has needs for security, affection, communication, and leadership, and a loving husband will do his best to meet these needs"
Ephesians 5:22-33
Just as men have special needs, so do women. A man who loves his wife and wants to build a good marriage would do his best to understand and meet her needs.
A woman's four major needs are security, affection, communication, and leadership.
1) Security: a woman needs to know that she has a dependable source to meet her needs (in so far as a husband can meet his wife's needs) for the rest of her life. When a wife knows that her husband will meet her needs, even to his own hurt, she will feel confident and secure.
2) Soft, nonsexual affection: a woman needs hugs and hand holding. Rather than sex, these signs of affection are the key to her sexuality and how she knows she is loved. Affection communicates value, security, and emotional connection to a wife.
3) Open and honest communication: a wife needs to know the details of her husbands life. She wants to have intimate conversations with her husband.
4) Leadership: she need to know that her husband will be a living initiator of matters that are important to them both. A woman wants her husband to lead in four critical areas: children-she wants her husband to pray with, play with, and discipline the kids. Romance-she wants him to plan dates and other occasions to show her special attention. Finances-she wants him to set up a family budget and plan for the family's future. Spirituality-she wants him to pray with her and lead the family in spiritual growth.
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Ephesians 5:23
"For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and He is the Savior of the body."
Eph. 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her." This does not mean to submit to your wife and do everything that she wants, however it does mean, sacrifice for her, by diligently providing for her, protecting her, leading her in the righteous ways of God.
Eph. 5:28 "Husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies, he who loves his wife loves himself."
Col.3:19 "Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them."