Pre-date Your Wife
January 15, 2010 by cloften
Filed under Bible, Church and Leadership, Family and Parenting
I am going on a date with my beautiful wife today. We are going to have a great time. I’m sure that we will end up at some girlie shopping place at some point, because we always end up shopping on our dates. I’m not sure how or why, but we do.
Anyway, what I would like to encourage you guys to do is “pre-date” your wife. The date itself can be great, but the love and romance can start before you get dressed up and go eat. Often it is the little things that romance your wife more than the things that we think are big. For example, she has been very tired and rundown the last couple of days, so I let her sleep in. I got both girls ready and off to school. (We even had a total of 3 clothes/hair crises, with just 2 girls, that I managed to successfully avert) I got all the dishes done and even swept the whole kitchen.
While this might sound like public bragging, what I want you to hear is the power of loving your wife through giving her a break from her routines and helping around the house. At this point, our date later could be Captain D’s and a Wal-Mart run and I promise you she will have had a great day. Men, let’s step up and invest into our relationships with our wives. They are precious gifts that God has given us.
Since my wife (Ann) and I have been married, I have tried to help her wherever I can. Although we do not have kids at the moment, we try to find time to spend time together. One thing Ann does differently is that we often skip the shopping. If we go to a store, it might be a more neutral place like Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, or one of the pet stores or pet store chains. We sometimes have to make an extra run to Wal-mart in a given week.
Great blog post!