How To Get Your Man To Shop With You
I shop with my wife. I get criticized often by other men that say I put pressure on them to live up to that standard with their own wives. I explain that a shopping mall is not necessarily my preferred place to be on a Saturday, but I love my wife and I love spending time with her. She likes to shop, so many Saturdays I find myself somewhere shopping with her. My blog readership, according to my recent reader survey, is at least 50% women, so today I want to address you in this issue. My goal as always is to improve and strengthen marriages. Spending time together always helps this occur. (Well…almost always…)
Here are some tips if you want to get your man to shop with you:
- Give him a mission. Men love a purpose. We are hunters by nature. Tell us exactly what you are looking for, that you haven’t been able to find it anywhere and that you need his help finding it. Then get out of his way and let him hunt!
- Understand his limit. When enough is enough, let him eat.
- Feed him well.
- Let him carry packages to the car. It gives him something to do.
- Include a stop for him (if he’s up to it). If he wants to look at tools for a while don’t complain if he looked at dresses.
- Don’t push stores he doesn’t like. Save those for the girls trips. (Personally, I don’t care for the candle shops or soaps and lotion shops. To me if you smell one, you’ve smelled them all.)
- Give him credit for going and don’t expect it to be his favorite way to spend a day. Recognize he is doing it out of love for you, not for the activity.
- Give him time to enjoy the things he enjoys doing at other times. Do them with him if he wants you to…and don’t complain if you do participate.
Girls: Does your husband shop with you? What are your tips for us?
Guys: Do you shop with your wives? What keeps you going?
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