What is Our Role as a Wife?

What is Our Role as a Wife? by Alicia Gromicko

Growing up, my parent's marriage was a disaster. I'll spare you the details.

As a young girl, I wanted clear instructions to follow so that my marriage would be sweet, loving, wonderful, exceeding, abundantly above all I could ask or think. So, I took it upon myself to study how to be the best wife I could be.

Every Monday, for over 15 years, I've been studying everything on "how to be the best wife for my husband". I apply the things I learn and now I'm sharing all I've learned with you.

In this 5 part series you'll learn clear instructions for wives.

1. Our role as a help meet to our husband and a keeper of the home.

2. Our responsibilities to submit and reverence/honor our husband.

3. The practical keys to love your husband.

Here, you will find clear instructions for an amazing marriage. Marriage takes daily work. As we work and invest in our marriage, it will be sweet and wonderful.

Yes, I can hear you saying "what about him?!"

- Let's do our part to be the best wife for our husband and then watch him transform.

- Send your husband to thekingsguide for his roles and responsibilities as a husband.

Before you get in a huff, consider this.... at your job/career, do you have a clear job description with clearly defined roles and responsibilities? Same with marriage. Over 50% of couples get married with no guidelines, no instruction and no teaching. They get married, put their marriage on auto-pilot and hope for the best.

Help Meet

One of our primary roles as a wife is to be a help meet. A help meet is a helper, one who balances her husband - a counterpart who is suitable and complementary for him.

A help meet is a companion to her husband, she works along side of her husband. We assists our husbands and bring out the best in him. Our primary responsibility is to help and be a companion to our husband.

Now, does this take 24 hours a day? No. Does this mean we don't have our own lives, jobs, careers, hobbies? No. Does this mean he doesn't help us? No.

Practically, ask him "how can I help?", or "is there anything I can do to help you?" Think of a pilot and co-pilot of an airplane. The co-pilot helps the pilot.

Your husband trusts in you because you help him be his best in every category of life. You are the only person on the planet who can do this. He confides in you because you have his best interest at heart; physically, emotionally and mentally.

If our husband is having a hard time, we help him. We lift him up. We listen. We care. We help him

by encouraging him with God's Word.

The greatest way we can be ready to help our husbands is to be strong on The Word of God.

As wives, we do what will strengthen and build him up according to who he is in Christ.

We are faithful in our care and regard for his heart and life.

We work along side and assist our husbands to bring out the best in them.

Wives have a very important role in helping their husbands be their best.

I encourage you to be an expert in helping your husband realize his full potential in body, soul and spirit. Take care of him, he is your best friend and you can help him be his best.

A help meet is a helper, a companion to her husband who works along side him to bring out the best in him by assistance. You are the only person in the world who can fulfill this role. In fact, the world continually beats up your husband and when he comes home you are the only one who can build him up.