Lord Jesus, I lift up stephie77's request to you for a loving husband. Help him to be the kind of husband you want him to be. Help him not to take his role as husband lightly or take his wife's love for granted. Help him to be a good listener, giving his wife his full attention so that he will be well aware of her concerns, aspirations, and needs. Help him to pay attention to the advice his wife gives him when she brings things to his attention that he may be doing wrong or that he could be doing better. Help him to be more anxious to please his wife than to have his own way. Help him to be aware of the things that he does that upset his dear wife - and enable him not to keep doing them - so that he will not be causing unnecessary problems in their relationship. Help him to remember that he is commanded to love his wife as Christ loved the Church and gave His life for it and please help him to better understand what that means to him as a husband. Help him to treat his wife better than when they were first met and remind him of the importance of spending quality time alone with her and of doing things to remind her of how special she is to him. Help him not to jump to conclusions about his wife's motives and enable him to think the best of her at all times. Help him to apologize and set things straight when he complain, falsely accuse, act selfishly, or say unkind or provoking words. Help him to go out of his way to complement her and to encourage her. Help him to be a proper example of what a loving, considerate, caring, and self-sacrificing husband should be. Help him to realize that it is his job to be an example of maturity and not an example of a disrespectful wisecracking school boy. Help him to be joyful in spite of his circumstances and help him to avoid whining and complaining when things do not go his way. Help him to admit his faults, to apologize when he is wrong, and to be anxious to heal wounds that he may have caused in his relationship to his wife. Help him to realize that is far better to get his wife to do things he want her to do because she loves him and not because he threaten her or yell at her. Help him to never forget that You gave him his wife to be a helpmate and best friend and may he never think of her as an adversary or a hindrance. Help him to show his children how much he respect and love their mother by his actions and by the words out of his mouth. Help him not to be afraid to be affectionate and loving towards his wife in front of his children so that they will know how to be good spouses when they grow up. Help him to properly discipline his children so they are not a burden or a grief to his wife. Help him to show his children that his wife is truly his very best friend and a highly trusted partner in the ministry of their family. Make him the kind of husband who his wife will never regret having married and even more than that, make him the kind of husband who is a joy for his wife to be around and who his wife will be proud to call her husband, a man who honors her and who honors Christ. Amen.