Keeping Your Wife Happy During Christmas
Christmas, however, is usually very important to women. If a husband wants to keep his wife happy during this time of year, he will need to be very careful to do certain things. Here are a few tips to keeping your wife happy during the holidays.
Spend time with your wife. Every woman loves for her husband to spend time with her. If you want to keep your wife in good spirits during the holiday spend time with her. Go to the mall and shop with her. Spend time with visiting family and friends. Go to parties and gatherings. Spend time decorating the home. Time spend together is what your wife wants during the holidays. Quality time will keep you in good standings with the lady of the house.
Put thought into her gift. Many women may not admit it, but what you get them for Christmas counts. Although they may drop hints about what to buy them, they want to see that you have given it some thought of your own. Think about the things she needs but may not have bought.
What is something she has wanted for a while but been unable to afford? The list of possible gifts is unending. The point is show some thought. Wrap the gift and present it in a manner that shows you know it's important to her.
Do the things you hate to do. If you are like me, your wife probably has you doing a lot of things you really don't want to do during the holidays. Keeping her happy usually involves doing these things anyway. It might mean going to a party or gathering that you really are not excited about. It might mean helping her to do shopping for the family. It could be something as simple as going to look at Christmas lights. Suck it up and do what she wants, if you want her to stay happy.
Minimize the complaining. This one can be hard at times. It goes hand in hand with doing the things you hate to do. You've got to learn to do such things without complaining. Have a good attitude and go along with what she asks. Sometimes it will be tough, but her happiness will be worth it in the end. She might even realize your willingness to keep her happy and cut you some slack in the future. For most women it does little good to do what they ask if you complain while you are doing it.
Keeping your wife happy is not always an easy task during the holidays. Keep this tips in mind when trying to keep the lady of the house happy. Remember the saying, "Happy wife means happy life!"
Published by mrpeterson22
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Post a CommentVery well said. My husband was a scrooge about Christmas for many years and it really almost ruined what is my favorite holiday for me, many years. Add in his mother demanding that we not create our own Christmas traditions because she felt we needed to stick to hers...it really was a recipe for disaster. Finally, right before Christmas 2 years ago, I told him he'd better put his foot down with his mother and at least help me shop for our 3 childrens gifts or I was filing for divorce. Christmas has been so much more pleasant since and he actually enjoys the holidays now that he doesn't have "Mommy" jerking his strings. ;)
You have some good points here. I think what is most frustrating to me is that men really don't care about a lot of things women do, and I feel like they should at least try to care if they really love their wife/girlfriend. But I'm glad you are willing to put that out there for other men to read. :)
Romance her -- and don't fall for the diamond propaganda. Diamonds say, "I don't pay enough attention to you to know what you really want, so I just listened to the salesperson and spent all our money." (This may not be true for those who don't share a common budget - boyfriends should still consider those diamond earrings.)
A happy wife makes for a happy house. lol
This article is great. Maybe that is because I am a wife as well and yes, the Holiday season is a wonderful time in a womans life(generally). But all a spouse or significant other has to do to make it that much more special is spend time with the love of your life. We don't require expensive gifts, the only gift I have ever needed was to be with my family during the holidays! It truly is a priceless gift.
I though your article was good because it made people
read it. isn't that what this place is all about? Yes very amusing.
I hope all husbands are like you. I hope my husband is like you. Thanks for sharing.
Great article. Every man should read this.
LOL-you got a lot of slack for this one, mrpeterson. You actually gave good advice with the extension of displaying a good attitude. Let's face it in some households there is a battle of the sexes and some guys are clouts-you did good, mrpeterson...
also, my boyfriend and i have already exchanged our gifts because he was so excited for me to open mine that he couldn't wait anymore. he knew what his gifts were this year, but he really wanted to see my face when i opened mine. this idea that christmas is a time of year for women to get angry at lazy men is ridiculous. i'm so tired of this stupid misogynistic stereotype that says men are lazy bastards who don't care at all about anything that isn't football, beer, or sex. real men aren't like that...and if a man is like that, he's not much of a man now is he?