My wife has said for years that there's nothing sexier than a man doing the dishes.
Again, the trick is for both of you to do unsolicited things for one another without expectation of quid pro quo. You do things out of love, not as some kind of barter transaction.
Exactly correct.
I'd read an article somewhere online in the last few weeks titled something along the lines "Man finds out marriage is not for him." The author of the article penned it from the perspective of what he expected to get out of marriage. As he discovered, his marriage wasn't about "him" it was about loving the other person in the marriage enough to want to see them happy.
At the end of the day, isn't that really what it's all about - loving the other person enough to want to see them happy and doing all we can to make that so?
Surely there are examples of unrequited love too, and those types of one-way relationships where a husband or wife gives all while the other does nothing but take. Those relationships are destined to fail.
But a man who loves his wife like Christ loves his church? That's going to be a blessed marriage.