A Homemade Recipe for A Happy Wife

Marriage

by BMWK Staff | on May 24th, 2012 | 4 comments

by Charli Penn-Watkins

The other day someone asked my husband a very interesting question. They said: “Your wife seems to smile all the time. How do you keep her so happy?” Now, he laughed at first, because he knows good and well there is no such thing as a wife who’s happy wife 24/7, but then he took a stab at giving them what he felt was a sufficient answer. He wants to post a video blog about what he said, so I’ll hold on going into it for now. However, I would like to share what I think the recipe for a happy wife is.

Wives, send this to the hubby if you agree. Men, listen up (even if you’re not married yet!). This is how my husband makes me happy “” and I smile a lot. Okay, let’s do this!

Recipe For A Happy Wife

Ingredient List:

Love
Honesty
Support
Patience
Respect
Trust
Joy
Faith
Sex

Directions:

Begin with love. She’ll want your unconditionally, even on her worst days.
Trust in her and the decisions she makes with and for you and herself. No wife wants to feel like you’re suspicious of her thoughts and actions. If you want her trust you must give her yours.
Have faith in your marriage and your future together. Not believing in your success as a unite is the fastest way to put a frown on her wife.
Share your joy with her and make sure she has her own to share. A healthy relationship needs happiness as much as it needs love. Consider it the oxygen and water she’ll need to survive the hardest of days.

Read the rest of the list at: http://manwifeanddog.com/2012/05/05/a-homemade-recipe-for-a-happy-wife/#ixzz1vnimHqWE

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Comments (4)

Shar Thursday - 24 / 05 / 2012 Reply

I really wish I knew about this site when I was contemplating whether or not to separate from my spouse. hoped for the best early on but now it seems like a lost cause!
Steven Saturday - 26 / 05 / 2012 Reply

My wife and I have been married 20 years now and I believe it's because we share most of the elements mentioned on your list. Now maybe I'm misinterpreting #4 up there and maybe it's because of my 50/50 nature, but it seems that #4 is saying that the man's responsible for having his joy and making sure she has her own joy to share...seems like more responsibility is placed on the husband in that scenario...is the wife not responsible for making sure she has her own joy? Does the husband wield more power/influence over his wife's own joy than she? Like I said, maybe I'm misinterpreting.
laketarenal Saturday - 26 / 05 / 2012 Reply

we've all heard the expression a happy wife is a happy life. when you think about this list here i think it really rings true. as wives we want to know that our husbands love us conditionally without question. when we're up and feeling good or when were sick and in bed or just not feeling ourselves. we want to know that you trust us. we need you to believe that the decisions we make on your (our) behalf are always in the best interests of our family. it's true this has to be riprocal to receive it we have to give it. and we want to know that you are always positive about our marriage surving the long haul. for a marriage to be successful there's no room for doubts. and there should be no room for the thoughts or people that bring those doubts. as your wife she loves and cares about what happens to you more than anyone on this earth. she wants you to be happy. now if you keep her happy, there's nothing she won't do for you.
Mrs Johnson Saturday - 26 / 05 / 2012 Reply

I am always loving on you guys site. I am a recently second time wife. I love being married but the first husband just was not for me because of many things but most of all this list was not meant so I was seldom the happy wife. My husband now fits all these things on the list. I am now a happy wife and I try to make sure I do and provide the same thing so he is a happy husband!!!