The Importance Of Love In Marriage

Most women have a natural desire to create a strong and functional family with their husband. This desire can be defined as family commitment. While a man has a yearning and need for his wife to be proud of him. This is known admiration. In marriages this is one of many ways that husbands and wives attribute value to their spouse and receive value from one another. Throughout Chapter 11 and 12 of His Needs Her Needs, it clarifies how family commitment and admiration are imperative in a marriage. Additionally, it outlines how these two things work together to meet the need of the husband and wife individually and as a couple. Although the way each family functions contrast from household to household, a commitment is a characteristic that women find most

These things intertwine because a man seeks admiration and in order for a wife to genuinely give admiration she needs the security of family commitment. Ephesians 5:22-25 says, Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. One way to see this verse is as a commitment of who a husband will be in marriage to his wife. When a husband is as committed to his wife as Christ to His church the wife has no difficulty with showering her spouse with admiration. A committed husband is one who esteems his wife, respects, honors, loves, and encourages. When a husband does this as unto God, compliments, encouraging words, praise and admiration is easily given to the husband. This happens because the wife is purely mirroring the example set by her mate that was initially set by