Understanding Yourself as a Wife

In discussing personality, we must know or understand ourselves. How can we ever hope to understand our mate if we do not understand our own self? How well do you really know yourself? Are we able to recognize our own strength and our own weakness? Often it is so easy to see the mote in the other person's eye and yet not know we have a beam in our own. We may be able to deceive ourselves but usually our mate has a fairly good image of us. If we fail to meet his expectations, then it is our responsibility to check ourselves and correct our faults.

These are some questions it is good to ask ourselves as a wife:

1. Do I try to make my home interesting, attactive, cheerful, a place of rest and relaxation?

2. Do I devote time, thought, and study to making it what my husband desires?

3. Do I serve meals that are nutritious, appetizing to the taste, and what our family enjoys eating?

4. Do I handle household finances in a business-like way?

5. Am I extravagant?

6. How about our personal appearance at home, or in public?

7. Am I a good sport? Do we insist on always have our own way?

8. Do we try to encourage our mate's decisions even if we do not always agree?

9. Are we willing for him to be the head of our home?

10. Are we willing to follow his leadership in private and family devotions?

In trying to understand our own personality or discover our real motives, we realize we are actually what we have been becoming over a period of years. They can become stepping stones or stumbling blocks just as we will allow them to.

Then after we have tried to become better acquainted with our own personality, and understand our attitudes more clearly, then we need to: Understand our mate! (Thur.--tomorrow -- to be continued.)