Jeremy Boreing

She just trusted that, you know, A, trusted that God guides our footsteps and is ultimately leading us, but then trusted me to lead our family and to solve those problems and

Because she did, because she does, I think I will.

That's one of the kind of mysteries about marriage is that you actually can't directly change.

the other person.

But you have this amazing ability to indirectly change them by doing what you're supposed to do in the relationship.

I meet a lot of young women who are like, and I say, do you trust your husband?

And they'll say, well, no, he's not very trustworthy.

And so I didn't ask if he was trustworthy, I asked if you trusted him.

The strange mystery of marriage is that men become trustworthy in response to trust.

They don't become trustworthy to earn your trust.

They become trustworthy because you trust them.

And there's something similar with women.

Men sacrifice in love for their wives, not because their wives are lovable.

Their wives become lovable in response to their love.

And so I think that Anne has a real wisdom.

She's sort of always understood that if she focuses on being a good wife, that it gives me the best shot that I've got at being a good husband.

And that's one of the things I appreciate about her.

Nope.

But it can help.

Andrew Breitbart famously says politics is downstream of culture.