In this motivational monologue, the speaker addresses husbands who feel a lack of pride and admiration for their wives. He argues that many men focus on negative aspects, neglect to speak life, pray, or affirm their spouses, and instead harbor entitlement and cognitive distortions that devalue the relationship. The talk highlights how such attitudes create a hardened heart, leading to loneliness and an inability to receive love. He emphasizes the importance of cultivating a culture of appreciation, noting the law of reciprocity—when a husband becomes a source of appreciation, he receives it back. The speaker defines true beauty as loyalty and steadfastness through dark times, urging men to recognize their wives' unwavering support. Ultimately, he challenges listeners to examine their hearts, break down emotional walls, and actively validate and support their wives to foster a healthier, more loving marriage.
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Why are you not proud of your wife? There's so many things that your wife does that you should be her biggest supporter. You should be her biggest advocate. And see, you want to be or have that position in your wife's life where she respects you and admires you. You want adoration inside the marriage, but yet ironically you don't want to support your wife, validate her, and speak life over her. You're speaking death over your family. Your emotional reactions, the words that you speak— you're siphoning the love, the affection, and the romance out of your family. Why do you not speak life over your wife? When was the last time you prayed for your wife? When was the last time you laid hands on your wife? When When was the last time that you said something positive about something your wife did? See, you're so focused on the negative that you don't want to point out the good things that your wife is doing. How about the fact that she's still with you and stuck by you through the darkest times in your life? Even when you were at the lowest version of yourself, your wife was there. And so your perception as well, you know, she only stays around because of finances and she has no other issues. No, she doesn't. See, that's the lie that you tell yourself. That's, that's how twisted up you are in your own self-deception, your own self-manipulation, and your own cognitive distortions. Disqualifying the positive inside your marriage, disqualifying the positive. You got to create a culture of appreciation. Sweet. When you become that source of appreciation you get it back in return. It's the law of reciprocity. And in your relationship, it's constantly you're wondering, what can I take? What you're not giving me and what I'm not getting and what I feel like I'm entitled to. You have that entitled attitude. That entitled attitude is the very thing that keeps you feeling alone. It keeps you feeling ungrateful. It keeps you feeling resentful. And it prevents you from recognizing and acknowledging the beauty that lives inside your own home. Oblivious to beauty when it's right in front of you. You know what beauty is? See, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So true beauty is people that stand by you amidst your struggles, people that stand by you regardless, people that stand by you when you were at your lowest point in your life. See, those people are rare. There may be a lot of people in your life that may, you know, validate you or that may hold you in high regard, but the real question is, will they stick with you through moments of darkness like, like your wife has? Maybe you need to stop making excuses about why she stayed with you, and maybe you need to recognize it's a heart issue. And real leaders, real empowered men, they always look at the heart. So question is, where's your heart at? Because a lot of times your heart has become hardened. And when you have that hardened heart You have that shield and that wall up, and the wall is preventing you from experiencing and receiving the love that your wife and family are waiting to freely offer you. So who's really creating your loneliness? Is it your family? Is it your wife for not giving you something? Or is it you for being— having such a hardened heart that you can't receive it?
