After writing How to be a Better Husband: Show Up, I felt the need to jump onto the other side of the relationship, so to speak.
It’s easy to find fault with our own self, or our own gender, and then to make fun of it, but it’s usually not cool to point out what the other half is doing wrong, so I have tended to stay out of those conversations.
However … I’m gonna do it anyway.
As I’ve previously said, I think that if we take what doesn’t work in a relationship, turn it upside down, and then apply it back to the marriage, we'll end up with some ways to be a better husband, or in this case, a better wife.
So today I picked one of the worst offenses: criticizing, complaining, or otherwise griping to or about your husband. Because it’s not cool to only focus on the negative. But it will cool off your marriage …
How to be a Better Wife: Focus on the Positive
To be a better wife, stop focusing so much on the negative and the things he doesn’t do, or that he does wrong (more on that in a minute). Put energy into expressing your positive feelings about him, not griping about his faults (read: habits).
