Some years ago I took to reading a book by Rabbi Shalom Arush (and translated into English by one of my rebbes, Rabbi Lazer Brody) titled, “The Garden of Peace”. It’s a marriage guide for men and it stands on two principles:
1. A husband should never criticise or comment negatively about his wife under any circumstance; and
2. The wife must know that she holds first place in her husband’s universe – that she is the most important part of his life.
I can honestly say that from the moment that I started to implement these two principles our relationship went from very good to wonderful.
A few weeks before all this business kicked off, I overhead my wife saying the following to one of my children (while unaware that I could hear her):
“I know that I am number one in Abba’s life”.
Hearing Barb say that was better than hearing a thousand “I love you”s.
And there's a companion book for the wife, too...
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