Lisa Jacobson - 100 Words of Affirmation Your Husband Needs to Hear

I cant say what prompted me at that particular moment. It was an ordinary day, and we were both at home doing ordinary things. But when he walked by my chair in the living room, I couldnt help but remark, You are one handsome man!

Im not sure what I expected, but maybe a smile from him at most. To my astonishment, however, he stopped what he was doing and came back over to my chair. And he asked me to repeat what Id said.

Um... youre handsome? Just stating the facts, babe.

Hes not one to fish for compliments, so I was at a loss as to what was going through this mans head.

Then he told me a story from his childhood that Id never heard before. When he was about eleven or twelve, he considered himself so ugly that he went through all the family photo albums and tore out every picture of himself he could find. The old albums contain photos of his family fishing or camping, with everyone lined up. Except there is a torn, jagged hole where he should have been standing. In literally every picture.

I felt like I was going to throw up. How could a wonderful kid like him have possibly thought he was ugly? Let alone so ugly that hed go to such great lengths to remove any reminder of how he appeared?

Now I happen to be married to a good-looking man. So, of course, I figured he knew he was handsome. How could I have ever guessed that he didnt see himself that way?

Saying he was handsome was merely pointing out the obvious. Except it wasnt obvious. Not to him anyway. And he needed to hear itespecially from his wife.