Appreciating your spouse...

[LegacyOfLove]

How do you show your spouse that you appreciate them?

 

[Busybee]

I bluntly tell him he's wonderful and that I'm lucky to have him. I also compliment him when he does anything and compliment his physical features as well. Whenever I have the time, I try to squeeze in a back rub or foot rub.

 

[andiesmama]

By keeping the house clean, cooking dinner, greeting him at the door when he comes home from work, building him up in my daughter's eyes...she thinks he hung the moon!

 

[okiemommy26]

By telling him i love him all the time and when I tell him he looks very cute
By baking something he wants baked, just by spending time with him

 

[LynnMcG]

I build him up daily. I compliment how he looks and try to make sure I look nice for him. I thank him for everything from going to work for us to taking out the garbage. I make sure his house is clean, his clothes are clean, he has food to eat (food he loves), I make his lunch, I make him coffee... In short I try to make sure to relieve him of any concern or care he may have when he walks in the door and try to make our home a place he wants to be and that he'll always want to be here with me.

 

[GirlieGirl]

I thank him for when he's just doing routine stuff. I notice that he really perks up and doesn't seem to see taking out the trash or rinsing his dishes as such a burden.

 

[Marla J.]

I and our boys have daily group hugs, my husband is a good loking man, yet very passive,we all always say we love one another and are their for everyone. My husband has just learned what it is like being their for his boys,and I enjoy the out come,it took alot of hard work. The blessing everyday are joyous and full.Thank you.

 

[murron]

I try, every day, to be sure he knows how much I appreciate him. I say it verbally and I try to show it with my actions. He works hard, usually 6 days a week - 5 at his regular job and Saturday he helps out a former employer (as an electrician - hard, laborious work). He puts in long hours and comes home exhausted most days. He does it so that I can stay home with our children. If I were working it would certainly take a large portion of the burden from him, but we both think my attention and energies are best served at home, with our children. I try to not make demands on him at home. I try to avoid asking him to help me with housework. I try to make sure meals are things he enjoys. I make time to spend with his family (don't ask about time with my own family, most of my family are...nevermind). The last two weekends he's been replumbing our house, on top of all of his other work. I have made sure to tell him every time I walk by him that I appreciate what he's doing. I comment on what a difference he has made with this job and how wonderful it is to actually have water pressure again.

A simple but sincere "thank you" really does work wonders.

 

[dulcinea]

I wait up late for him to come home from work (his shift doesn't end until 12:30 AM), I tell him that I love him, I pack little lovey cards in his lunch, thank him when he does things for me, stuff like that. And give him plenty of and

 

[Flipper]

I listen to him, give him lots of hugs, humor him in his electronics pursuits, play computer games with him, take an interest in what he is interested in.

 

[Silent Enigma]

Only women responded so far??

Well I make sure to tell her how beautiful she is and thank her for doing things. I listen to her concerns and pet her head (she really likes this). Dunno. Stuff.

 

[Yitzchak]

I show her affection by holding hands and loving touches.

 

[Andy Broadley]

I was thinking about the death of John lennon 24 years ago and this seemed as good a p[lace as any to post this. I think it a beautiful love song.

GROW OLD WITH ME
(John Lennon)
Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love

Grow old along with me
Two branches of one tree
Face the setting sun
When the day is done
God bless our love
God bless our love

Spending our lives together
Man and wife together
World without end
World without end

Grow old along with me
Whatever fate decrees
We will see it through
For our love is true
God bless our love
God bless our love


RIP John

 

[LegacyOfLove]

What wonderful responses so far. And thank you also to the (few) guys who responded about how they show their wives that they love and appreciate her!

I show my hubby that I appreciate him by:
* rubbing his shoulders after he gets home from work
* having dinner ready for him after work, so that he can just relax when he gets home
* by giving him his "space" so that he can enjoy some "me" time to watch his Star Trek, play a video game, read/pray...
* by telling him I love him and randomly (when he's not expecting it) saying little things like "I'm so proud of you"; "thank you for working so hard" those kinds of things...

I try to show him in little ways and to not over-do it...so that he knows it is sincere and "just because".