The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands Quotes

“We need only clear communication, appreciation, honest love, and respect.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“Most of the women who complain that they are not getting what they want from their husbands should stop and look at how disrespectful and disdainful they are of them.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“Wives need to love their husbands as though they’ve never been hurt before. Otherwise, they destroy today.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“My wonderful wife has put it best: “Sex is to a husband what conversation is to a wife. When a wife deprives her husband of sex for days, even weeks on end, it is tantamount to his refusing to talk to her for days, even weeks.” Think of it that way, wives, and realize what a deleterious impact enforced sexual abstinence has on a good man who is determined to remain faithful.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“Thank God daily for such a terrific guy, mentioning specific qualities for which I’m grateful.     •   Look for daily ways to be a blessing to my husband (trying to understand what pleases him, anticipating his needs, etc.).     •   Chart my menstrual cycle and remind myself on the PMS days that what I’m feeling isn’t true and to keep my mouth shut and let it pass.     •   Avoid books, magazines, and TV shows that describe what marriage, family, and husbands ought to be like, and make a conscious effort to be grateful for things as they are instead of trying to change the people around me.     •   Take responsibility for my own emotional well-being: Stay rested, don’t overcommit and then complain, stay in touch with friends with a positive influence.     •   Stay focused on making a home for my family and remember that this is my highest calling and responsibility, and that it has eternal value. The more I do this, the happier and more content I am.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“Contrary to what a good forty years of feminist propaganda has claimed, it is not oppression, subjugation, or abdication of any feminine quality-of-life potential to marry a man, be proud of your bonding, rejoice in your gifts and sacrifices for your marriage and family, and derive pleasure and sustenance from your role as a wife and mother.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“The dinner table is a most important aspect of that bonding. That is the routine time when the family sits down, says their prayers, and spends that pleasant time enjoying their meal together and talking. So, if that means you have to do what you don’t like, so be it.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“God’s greatest gift, after life itself, is love. God created him for you. Love your husband with all your heart and treat him like the gift from God that he is.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“When men think of women being romantic toward them, they think less of what she can go out and buy or specifically do; they think more of how she presents herself to him as a woman and how she reinforces his ego by treating him as desirable and competent. It’s how she makes him feel like a real man and her hero.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“Actually believing that a husband has a wife’s welfare in mind, actually believing that he doesn’t intend to hurt or disappoint, and being able to see the positive amidst the negative are the keys to the good feelings a wife can have about her husband.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“The fact is that there will always be a power struggle between men and women in a “unisex”-mentality world. Only when women enjoy those strengths they have that men don’t, and enjoy the strengths men have that they as women don’t, will they be happier creatures and be able to play better in the sandbox called marriage.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed that some of your lady callers have had questions on a wife’s submission to her husband and how it deals with their Christian faith when faced with a moral problem. Nowhere in the Bible is a woman told to blindly submit to the will of her husband. In fact, the first act of submission is on the husband’s part! The husband is to submit himself to Christ and the will of God. When he does this he is not setting himself up as master, but rather as servant of the Lord. Only then is the wife to submit to the will of her husband—because the will of her husband will be obedience to the Lord. So the wife is not submitting to the husband, but to God. As soon as the husband steps outside this and acts contrary to scripture, the woman is under no moral obligation whatsoever to her husband to transgress the moral law! Women are not, and were never meant to be, set up as servants to men in the kingdom of God. A man is supposed to love his wife as Christ loves the church. That means that a husband is required to love, care for, nurture, protect, comfort, and even be willing to die for his wife. That is love.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“1. He knew I loved him unconditionally: He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure six years ago. 2. I like him: He’s my best friend. 3. I respect him. 4. I make sure that his needs are met both physically and emotionally: He’s a very passionate Hispanic guy. 5. I make him smile. In return for these things, he showers me with love, respect, kindness, jewelry, anything I want. Recently, I told him that I wanted to quit my job as an executive to start my own consulting business. He didn’t bat an eye—because he knew that it would make me happy.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

“I tossed aside his feelings and I, in the end, lost my husband to another woman and my children lost their father. God, if only I had been as nurturing to him as I was to my children. I am now in my late forties and I could kick myself for my selfishness and stupidity. Boy, have I ever learned from my mistake.” Cathy remarried and treats her current husband quite differently.”
― Laura Schlessinger, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands