Why I Love My Husband (An Explanation)

I got several comments on my first "Why I Love My Husband" post from other bloggers wanting to do the same. I think that's awesome! We should all be able to brag about the men whose job it is to help us get to heaven. Some even suggested I get one of those nifty little icons to make it more official.

Like the icon? Well thanks, but I didn't make it. That would be the work of the woman who has way too many the perfect amount of blog features and designs creative icons for every one. :) Thanks Leila!

So I'm laying down some ground rules and some explanations for the "Why I Love My Husband" posts.

I absolutely can't stand when women complain about their husbands. It's one thing to have an actual problem in your marriage and seek the advice, counsel, and support of a good friend. It's another thing completely to trash the man you chose to marry and spend the rest of your life with. It's not acceptable. We need to be building up our husbands with everything we have within us, not cutting them down with hurtful comments to other women. Yes, they have faults. But we don't need to expose those faults to others. We don't need to go on and on about them.

Kimberly Hahn said that we should never speak badly of our husbands because we are one flesh. If we tear our husband down, we're really only hurting ourselves. I love that.

When I write a post dedicated to how much I love Ted, it is not to imply that everything is always perfectly peachy in our marriage. While I do think he's Superman, even Superman falls sometimes. He's not perfect-but that's just another one of the reasons that I love him. So the purpose of these posts isn't to gloss over the difficulties of marriage and pretend like nothing ever goes wrong. The purpose is to rejoice in the special and wonderful things our husbands do for us, to give them a much needed pat on the back, and to brag about how great our "other half" really is. Save the negative stuff for a priest or trusted friend-not a ladies night out.

The rules? Well there aren't any really.

You can do a post like this whenever you want. Not just on Fridays or the second Tuesday of the month or some other day.

You can include as few or as many reasons as you want to explain why you're husband is da bomb.

You can do this often or as infrequent as you want.

Save the icon from the top of this post and use it whenever you write your own.

Linking back to my blog isn't necessary (the credit would only go to my head). I'm not opposed to links-just don't feel obligated.

Ted and I have discussed the fact that every conversation we have with our married friends (and non-married friend for that matter) can either tear marriage down or build it up. (I'm sure we heard this somewhere but we can't remember where. It makes us feel smart to claim it as our own.) It's so easy to fall into the trap of complaining about marriage. It's so easy to let little comments slide without standing up for marriage. "Is Kaitlin gonna LET you go fishing today?" "Gee, Ted seems to be gone an awful lot." Do our conversations with others affirm their marriages? Are we supportive of the crosses they carry? Do we speak highly enough of our own marriage to serve as a witness to the beauty of this awesome sacrament?

If not, I encourage you (and myself!) to get going. Build up your hubbies. Defend your marriage. Be a witness.

I think that's it. Let the bragging.....BEGIN!