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[quote=Anonymous]Modeling a healthy marriage is the best thing you can do. Do it vocally and visbily. Let your kids see you accept your spouse's influence, hear you thank them for doing something that helps you/the family. Let them see you disagree and come back together (within reason - don't fight in front of them but), let them see how they two of you work as a team and lift each other up. The accepting of your spouse's influence is especicially important to model to your sons. I can't remember where I read it (recent NYT article?), but one of the things that best sets men up to be good and equal partners in hetero relationships is to have grown up in an environment where they see their male role models accepting influence from the women in their lives. And of course, do what you can to help your kids be confident in themselves and trust that you will always be there for them. They won't tolerate a bad partner if they are secure in themselves. [/quote]
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