I am really concerned with the way many husbands treat their wives. We invite the lady of our dreams to share our lives with us and then fail to get to grips with the most basic of relationship issues. Many Christian men hear good teaching on family life and how to treat their wives but it is water off a duck’s back in so many cases.

Our wives go into marriage with high hopes. Most ladies have their ideals of what marriage should be and while many are realistic enough to recognise an element of unreality in those dreams they are rarely prepared for the cruel disillusionment that drives so many of them to utter frustration.

They at least expected to be able to hold a reasonable conversation with their husbands or to have a realistic level of involvement from him in the bringing up of the children. Oh yes, he does all the right things as he sits patiently (or not so patiently!) and listens to you going on about your day and he may well give those children time but you know he has not connected with either you or the children in any of those situations. 

And the good things he does make it worse in a way because they mask the important things that are missing. How many wives have sat in frustration while their husbands have fixed the loo or stopped the dripping tap (noble deeds in themselves!) but somehow cannot understand that what she really wants is the heart-to-heart connection. And when she tries to explain he gets defensive and takes it all personally and ‘mishears’ and it all ends up in a horrendous argument after which you wish you had never opened your mouth in the first place.

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How do you treat your wife?