Who Your Spouse Needs You to Be

• My marriage cannot change if I stay the same.

Husbands Need Respectful Wives (3:1-6)

• A woman’s submission isn’t to all men but to the one she trusted to marry (3:1).
• Men respond to an example better than an exhortation (3:1). 
• Wives shouldn’t stop being righteous and respectful in their attempts to see similar traits in their husbands (3:2).
• It requires more work to beautify one’s character than appearance (3:3).
• The woman that obtains her husband’s attention isn’t demanding it from everyone else (3:4).
• Submission places a wife’s confidence in the trustworthy God even when her husband is unreliable (3:5-6).

Wives Need Considerate Husbands (3:7)

• How a husband treats his wife determines the ease she submits to him.
• It is hard to prove love to someone that you don’t attempt to understand.
• A considerate husband protects any vulnerable area regarding his wife.
• Any comments or actions that devalue one’s wife are an offense to God.
• God can expect something different from men and women yet love them the same.
• Do not expect your Father to listen to the voice of one who disregards His daughter.

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• Men want a peaceful wife; women desire an intentional husband.
• Husbands long to be respected; wives crave to be understood.