5 Ways to Enrich Your Communication with Your Wife

John Thurman's Resilient Solutions Shortcast

The ability to accept your spouse’s influence means that you welcome and respect your spouse’s thoughts, ideas, impressions, insights, and feelings. Doing this allows them to help you make decisions that impact you, your family, and your relationship.
When you accept their influence, you acknowledge that your spouse has a valid point of view and that you value it. It demonstrates that you are open-minded and welcome the valuable insight they bring to the marriage. Accepting their advice and influence demonstrates that they are essential, and their input is important, even when we disagree.
Before reviewing the 5 ways to enrich your communications with your wife, let’s take a moment to compare health and unhealthy influence.
First, do a gut check. Are you trying to score a personal victory or come up with a joint resolution?

Second, listen with consideration to your partner’s point of view. After all, the Scripture reminds us:
Third, remember this vital relational point: the more influence you accept, the more influential you become.
Fourth, actively look for ways to say “yes.”
Fifth, extend grace.
First, do a gut check. Are you trying to score a personal victory or come up with a joint resolution?
Second, listen with consideration to your partner’s point of view. After all, the Scripture reminds us:
My dearest brothers and sisters, take this to heart:
Be quick to listen but slow to speak.
And be slow to become angry,
for human anger is never
a legitimate tool to promote God’s righteous purpose.
James 1:19 The Passion Translation
Third, remember this vital relational point: the more influence you accept, the more influential you become.
Fourth, actively look for ways to say “yes.”
Fifth, extend grace.
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