FCHD 2400 C.

Beckert

TEN THINGS HUSBANDS WANT THEIR WIVES TO KNOW ABOUT MEN

(Charles B. Beckert, PhD.)

1. I am not a mind reader.

2. I want to please you.
3. I like to solve my own problems in my own way.
4. Being intimate with you means things are OK between us.
5. I don't know what to do when you cry.
6. I need you to be quite specific with me when you expect something.
7. I can't know about and fix everything that breaks.
8. I need to do things with you.
9. Your respect and admiration for me means more than from any other source.
10. I may look tough on the outside but I'm tender on the inside.

TEN THINGS WIVES WANT THEIR HUSBANDS TO KNOW ABOUT

WOMEN
(Charles B. Beckert, PhD.)

1. I need someone to talk with.

2. I need to feel safe around you and to trust you.
3. Sex and affection are not the same and I need affection from you.
4. I need to know and feel I am important to you and respected as a person.
5. I need to hear how much you love me and if you talk to me before you touch me
my response will generally be more positive.
6. I am not your mother nor your child, but your partner.
7. I am not asking for a solution when I tell you about a problem. I just want to share
it with someone.
8. I am human and have feelings and limits.
9. When you don't talk to me I feel shut out of your life.
10. I am the best thing that ever happened to you.