This one is an easy one for me because I am that bulldog friend who is always ready to protect the ones she loves. Now hopefully its not physically that you need to protect your husband from someone else but protecting him can also mean emotionally and mentally. You can protect his character when with others. This is not to say you shouldn't confide in a trusted friend when things are difficult but there is no reason to outright slander your spouse's name in public.
On the other hand this is a hard one for me as well because my husband is not the protector type. One of the main values in a man is being a protector so it is a hard pill to swallow that mine does not have that protective instinct over me(yet...I am praying that he will grow into the man that God has planned him to be), the quite opposite actually is that a lot of the time I want to be protected from him. Does he hurt me physically? No, however he does hurt me emotionally and mentally as well as puts me in situations that a "princess" should not be put in. Husbands, if you are reading this, know that it is very important for us to feel safe with you both physically AND emotionally!
So how can we protect our spouses? Physically maybe but again hopefully not. The Bible says in Proverbs 31:11-12, "The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life." When you are doing your husband good and not evil, that is a form of protection! On a sports team you can be defensive but the offensive also helps to protect the goal by being proactive! We can be proactive in protection by using kind words to protect his heart and showing him affection to protect his loyalty.
-Jessica
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