Your husband needs your time and attention. He probably won’t tell you this, but it’s true. If he thinks he’s way down on your list of priorities, he’ll be angry and resentful and hurt. Take a good look at your life. What is ahead of your husband on your list of priorities? Your children? Your family? Your service in the church? Your job outside the home? Your housework? Your friends? Your Bible study group? Many wives have a bad habit of putting these people and activities before their husbands.

By nature, wives will take care of all their jobs and responsibilities first; then, if they have any time and energy left, they will tend to their husbands. This is backward according to the Bible.

Your relationship with God comes first, but God wants your husband to be your number two priority in life. Don’t put him last or even third.

In Titus 2:4–5, Paul instructs the older women in the church to "encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored."

What’s the first item on this list of priorities? The husband! Children come later. Housework comes later. Everything else, except God, comes later. There are two very important things you can do to put your husband first and make him feel loved: play with him and pursue him sexually.

Play with Him

In just about every survey taken of a sample of husbands—anywhere in the world—the number one thing they want from their wives is more sex. No shocker there. The number two need, however, usually comes as quite a surprise to wives: husbands wish they and their wives did more enjoyable activities together.

Shared activities. Shared interests. That’s the heart’s desire of nearly every husband.

Your husband wants to be with you, doing something fun—a sport or a hobby. "Honey, let’s play golf." "Let’s go fishing." "Let’s play tennis." "Let’s go hunting." "Let’s go to the football game, baseball game, basketball game, or NASCAR race." "Let’s watch this sporting event or action-adventure movie on television." "Let’s go to the mall and visit eighty-five stores, and I’ll watch you touch and try on and talk about two thousand and nine articles of clothing but not actually buy anything."

Okay, I’m kidding about the mall. Your husband wants you to do things he enjoys, not necessarily what you enjoy. But as he works to become a more sensitive husband, he may do more activities that you find entertaining. But don’t ask for that right up front. Start with his activities. This article is about his needs, not yours.