You can’t say, to your wife “I like you but I don’t love you.” So wives shouldn’t say to their husbands, “I like you but don’t respect you.”īelow are easy action steps for how women can show respect to their husbands.Ĭ onquest – learn to appreciate his desire to work and achieve It’s worldy to think that people have to earn your respect. And when spouses love and respect each other, they can enjoy life and marriage together.įor Women – How to Spell Respect that He Desperately Needs to Your Husband by C-H-A-I-R-S Emerson Eggerichs book Love and Respect, for both wives and husbands to take to energize each other. Recognizing that you’re on it and learning how to keep it from spinning out of control is possible, if we can learn how to meet each other’s basic needs for love and respect.īelow are the action steps, from Dr. Getting trapped in the crazy cycle is all too easy. This book teaches us how we can deal with conflict quick, easily and biblically with two simple ways – love and respect.

When a wife doesn’t feel loved and a husband doesn’t feel respected, the crazy cycle begins and will whirl round and round. You can control this crazy cycle by making sure that you put a stop to it by reacting in a way not of that this world tells you to, but by reacting in the way God tells us to. Husbands, that means even when you feel disrespected, and it’s especially hard to love your wife when you do, do it anyway. It may be difficult, but to end the crazy cycle, someone has to take the initiative, so why not start with you? So, wives when you feel unloved, it can be extremely hard to respect your husbands when you feel like they haven’t earned it or deserve it, but you must respect your husband anyway. Many times the bigger, underlying issue of our arguments with each other is really women feeling not loved or men feeling disrespected. When men feel put down, in other words disrespected, then instinctively they will react with zero love. They can make their husbands feel put down by their demeanor and their tone of voice. Women can be right but wrong at the top of their lungs. And it will go on and on if you don’t recognize the underlying issue and take control. Without Love > She Reacts > Without Respect > He Reacts > Without Love > She Reacts > Without Respect > He Reacts …. Emerson Eggerichs based his book on Ephesians 5:33 “Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” “Love and Respect” is the perfect book for anyone married, engaged, in a relationship or sees themselves married in the future. Emerson Eggerichs.ĭo you just want some peace and quiet? Do you want to feel closer to your spouse? Do you feel understood? Are you experiencing the marriage you’ve always wanted?įive out of ten marriages today are ending in divorce because love alone is not enough. Comments Action Steps and Reflections From “Love & Respect” written by Dr.

Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs