5 Things Every Man Needs From His Wife (2024)

Hey friends! I’m back this week (as promised!) talking about marriage once again. And today, I’m focusing on you ladies out there, and how you, as a wife, can meet some very important needs of your man. To be totally honest up front, I’m feeling a bit vulnerable in sharing from this perspective. Partly it’s because I’m not a man (spoiler alert) and even though I am sharing my husband’s views in addition to my own, I can’t say I fully understand what it’s like to be the opposite sex the way I do my own.

I also understand that I am operating from an extremely privileged and blessed position: within a healthy, happy marriage. Not everyone is in this kind of a relationship, and I want to recognize that it truly, absolutely, completely takes both husband and wife to make a marriage work and last. I want to be sensitive to this in my advice-giving.

My husband and I started dating just before entering college — at 18 years old — and we were very good friends 3 years prior to that. So we have, in many ways, grown up together. We’ve run the gamut from geeky, awkward, gushing teenagers. to stressed-out new parents (5 times over), to uh, “mature” adults on the verge of empty nesting. We’ve had our share of obstacles along the way, but we have learned from them…