How to Be the Best Wife

With a few simple approaches, you can be the best wife you can be and the one your husband deserves.

Step 1: Do nice things

Do something nice for your husband every day, using a smile, a kind word, or a soft touch. Be the best wife, supportive and kind, by listening to his problems.

Step 2: Be a friend and confidant

Support your husband and understand his needs like a best friend would. An open ear and an open mind work best.

Love your husband, but earn and demand his respect and attention.

Step 3: Avoid insecurity

Act confident by accepting his compliments and shows of appreciation. Disrespecting his love for you by diminishing the worth he feels for you is a turn-off.

Step 4: Keep your friends

Give him space, and take advantage of having time to yourself. Go out with your friends as well — it's too much pressure to expect him to supply all your needs for friendship and activities.

Step 5: Acknowledge his thoughtfulness

Acknowledge his thoughtfulness. If you want it to continue as part of the marriage, you have to let him know it's appreciated.

Step 6: React better

Find positive and respectful ways to react better to his shortcomings and habits. Nagging only irritates the situation.

Women can sometimes expect men to know everything on their mind as a test of their attentiveness. Men want clarity. Drop the games and declare what you want.

Step 7: Be there for him

Provide the counterpoints for his sometimes overwhelming sense of being defeated by the big cold competitive world. To know that the person he values most in the world believes in him when he can't is huge. Be his rock.