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While this is the first week of our project, if you have friends who want to join in, let them know that they can jump in any time. You don’t need to have The Husband Project book in order to participate, but you definitely will get more out of this(and be able to plan better) if you read along. You can order it on Amazon or for a special price on my website.
And our winner of yesterday’s giveaway Becoming the Woman of His Dreams is Crystal A! Please e-mail my assistant Kimberly at kimber@kathilipp.com and she will put it in the mail!!!
You da’ Man
Spreading Great Gossip About Your Guy
Your Project:
Say something nice about your husband to someone else. Make sure you tell him what you said, and to whom.
As cliché as it may sound, our husbands want to be our heroes. More than they want to know that we love them, they want to know that we respect them. They need to know that they’re never the butt of our jokes, that they’re the go-to-guy in every story we tell.
Make an opportunity today to brag on your husband to someone else. It doesn’t matter if it’s one of your friends or one of his; let that somebody know how blessed you are to be married to your guy.
Some key phrases you may want to put on index cards to help you remember:
· “I feel so lucky to have a man who knows how to do his own laundry.”
· “You know when I knew that my husband really loved me? When he could remember my order at Starbucks.”
· “I just love the way he is with our kids.”
· “He makes the best lasagna on the planet.”
While your greatest need may be for your husband to tell you that he loves you, most guys are programmed differently. He wants, at his very core, to know that you respect him. He wants to know that you are proud of him and that he is the one you would choose again if given the chance.
This goes a long way to solidifying you as a team, as well. There’s no way that anyone in my family would ever say a word against my husband. They know that I’m on his side, and it’s a gossip-free zone around me (unless the gossip is about how great he is).
Prayer for Today
Dear God, let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight.
Getting Creative
Who are the important people in your husband’s life? Your kids, his parents, his friends? Be intentional about who you chat with when you brag on him – it’s almost as important as actually doing it.
Having a hard time coming up with something? I still brag on my guy for things he did years ago. He loves when I tell the story of how brilliantly he proposed (there were waterfalls and stuffed portabella mushrooms involved…).
Here are some other areas to think about when crafting your brag:
· His parenting skills
· His patience level
· The way he treats your mom
· His culinary ability
· His job
· His loyalty to you
Project Reports:
“This last Valentine’s Day my husband, Guy, did wonderful things for our children and for me. I had the opportunity to brag about these things to my sister on my cell phone with my husband right there! If you are wondering what he did, he made up a treasure hunt for each of our 3 children. They each had 3 clues before they got their prize and he made each of the clues rhyme! The kids absolutely LOVED it and I was very impressed as well. For myself, I have mother/daughter date with my eldest daughter every Thursday night and we didn’t get home until about 9:30pm. He had a bunch of candles lit in our bedroom, wonderful coupons for me to use for time away from the kids, not to make dinner, and more. There was also champagne, Barry White playing on the CD and chocolates! The BEST Valentine’s Day ever!”
Carolyn
“I like this project. I made a decision long ago (before I was even married oddly enough) to try to not to say negative things about my husband to other people. I have heard lots of wives complain about their husbands and I realized that it not only makes the person talking feel bad (continuing to think about the negative), but it also makes the listener feel bad (caught in between and NEVER knowing the right thing to say). I admit it is not easy and I do have moments when all I want to do is vent, but I really try hard to stick to the ‘if you don’t have something nice to say…’ rule.”
Becky
“The bragging was easy for me!!! It just so happen that I had my 2 year olds b-day party that day…Boy oh boy did everyone there get an earful of what a big help my husband was for, helping my with the party…”
Michelle
“Okay, so I kinda cheated on this one. We were talking about this project at MOPS so I said to the ladies at my table, “Just so ya know, my husband is awesome!” So it was a little contrived, but I totally meant it. I’ll keep working at this “assignment” though. I want to make a habit of saying nice things about my husband in a more natural way.”
Christina
“I, too, try not to disparage my husband in front of other people (or to him for that matter) but I think I had gotten lazy about talking him up! He is a fabulous man and this week I made a point to let people know. My sweet hubby was a little embarrassed but he beamed when I told him about it! It feels great to focus on his strong points – it reminds me why I love him even more now than when I married him!”
Stacie

This is a good project for me, b/c I admit I often fall into the category of women who gossip or speak negatively of their husbands. A while back I intentionally stopped doing this, but I have forgotten lately to praise the positive!
Today ended up being easy as I woke up late, so Seth helped me get the kids ready and get all of us out of the door and off to Bible study, we were even early! I told some of the women at Bible study about this and put it on my FB page! I really do love my man, and thinking and talking on the positive, really helps remind me of this!!
I bragged about my hubby today on my FB page. Yesterday, the wind was blowing our awning and banging it into the house. He came home, saw wha was going on and went outside in the wind to take it down….without being asked. Every year I have to ask him to do it and he is stuck out in a storm taking it down, but not this year. I made a video of the event and posted it!
Usually I am the one saying what my husband doesn’t do, or what I wished he’d do to my girlfriends. So this project was a bit tougher than some of the others. So, I posted on FB how great he is, etc. so everyone would see! I think he was surprised-and honored, and he saw I really do admire him.
As a rule I try to not talk bad about my hubby to anyone, even if I need to vent. After reading For Women Only I was doing good about bragging on my man but fell out of practice somewhere along the way. Today I have to brag because my hubby bought us a new garage door opener when our died even though I was adamant it could wait, that it was no big deal, and that financially we have many other demands. He didn’t like the idea of me having to open the door by hand each time I came and went (which is a lot) so he just took care of it. Called the people, checked prices, made the appointments – all of it! He usually leaves the “administrative” stuff to me! Such a treat!
This morning I prayed for my husband at corporate prayer and I often try to encourage him and build him up. I hope to continue to build up his image in the eyes of others so that they can focus on his good points and also in his own eyes so that he can see himself as the person God created him to be. I pray that David will truly be a man after God’s own heart. I often recommend him and his photography business because he is an awesome and greatly gifted professional commercial photographer.
I am going to “brag on my man” at church tonight. We have prayer meeting and I think too often our friends (aka: prayer warriors) only hear what we need prayer for in our lives, families, spiritually, etc. Tonight I want to share how BLESSED I am to have David for my husband. I want to publicly let him know what he means to me and I want our church family to know that he is truly the one God created for me.
I’m planning on bragging about my husband to all my fb friends and family.
Today my husband is home sick, but I am still planning to brag about him when I am on the phone. Talking with my mother, friends, etc that he’s been a huge help with our sick children, even though he is recovering too!
I plan on braging about my husband to my friends and family today. I have done this before and even though he doesn’t admit it I can tell he likes hearing all the praises that I have been telling people. He is amazing and I want to always try to show that through my conversations with people.
As a general rule, I go out of my way to talk my hubby up, especially to his family and friends. They know him well enough to know when he is being a turkey – I don’t need to point this out to them, but what parent wouldn’t wnat to hear nice stuff about their son?