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Do These 11 Things To Show Him Your Love
Great relationships aren’t about give and take, they’re about give and give.
Of the hundreds of articles I’ve written, at least 75% are about how men can improve themselves and be better partners for the women in our lives.
Here’s what we rarely talk about, though: Men need affection, too.
Psychology Today once made the distinction: Our newsfeeds are so flooded with negative press about bad men doing bad things that we have almost accepted the perpetual narrative that men are inherently untrustworthy or unloving.
While these men are prominent in media coverage, they are not your husband. Your partner. Your boyfriend or significant other.
Odds are, that dude is just doing his best to love you and figure things out along the way.
So, to honor an article I wrote a couple of years ago outlining how women can love the men in their lives (since it still receives hundreds of daily views through women searching for it), here is a refresher for those who want to reciprocate the effort their (good) man puts in every day.
1: Ask him to do something for you.
Men are instinctively problem solvers, and we like to be useful.
