Your encouragement and praise of them as their spouse can help them believe in themselves. Your praise can also help your spouse take that one more step toward reaching the goal they have set out to reach. Your voice can strengthen or weaken the will of your spouse, depending on whether you serve with praise or poorly by being critical. As a servant toward your spouse, you would do well to strengthen and encourage your spouse to use his or her will to glorify God, the Creator.

Just about every day for the last couple decades or so, Lisa and I have looked each other in the eye (that is important), and told each other two things we appreciate, value, or love most about one another. This makes our marriage a warm place for our hearts to be.