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1 Peter 4:8 “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of
sins.”

The way to love someone is to lightly run your fingers over that person soul until you find a crack, and then
gently pour your love into that crack.

Gary Smalley has written, “recently I asked five divorced women, individually, ‘if your husband began
treating you in a consistently loving manner, would you take him back?’ ‘Of course, I would’, each replied.
But, unfortunately, none had any hope her husband would ever be like that. Because I knew one of the men
personally, I had to concur with his wife's hopelessness. ‘What he doesn't realize is that a lot of women are
as responsive as puppy dogs,’ one woman explained to me. ‘if he'd come back and treat me with
tenderness, gentleness and understanding, I’d take him back tomorrow.”

Remember that a wife needs her husband's love like she needs oxygen to breathe.

How to Love your Wife Like Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfXbPzpkXE

8.4 Let’s Practice...
1. What does it mean for a husband to love his wife?

2. What should a husband do when he is tempted to stop loving his wife?

3. Present two ways the love of a husband is to be present to his wife.

4. What does it mean to be bitter toward your wife?

5. How can a husband build up and enrich his wife?

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