Rav Yisroel Salanter zt”l said, “When a man tells his wife that her soup was tasty, it is akin to telling a Rosh Yeshiva that the teretz he said for a difficult Rambam is amazing or the shiur he gave was incredible. A wife’s soup that she prepares for her husband is her ‘shiur’ and she wants to be appreciated for all of the work she puts into it. When her husband shows gratitude for all that she does for him, he gives her the encouragement she needs to continue caring for him.”
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