What was missing?
It was the 3rd deliberate action you can take to show encouragement!
LOVE

Foster with Unconditional Love
Loving your spouse may begin as the easiest action in marriage and end up, because of life tensions, the most difficult to sustain. Imagine love as the warp and weft of a fabric - and then enveloping your spouse in that fabric woven following the pattern found in 1Corinthians 13:4-7.
This is the third of 7 deliberate actions to show encouragement.
What if you could identify what your spouse needed - physically, mentally and emotionally? If you use intimate knowledge in a postive way, your ability to encourage will deepen - from a puddle to a bottomless well.