face-saving
adjective
          intended to prevent someone from feeling embarrassed or having to admit wrong

Should you practice face-saving with your husband? 

I’d say that depends on how you define it. I have a problem with the last part of the definition at the top. Admitting when we’re wrong is important for marriages, and is a basic Christain duty. But what if we define saving face as making it easy for the other person to own what they did was wrong?

Try things like “I’m sure you didn’t mean it…” or “I don’t think you meant to hurt me…” or “I think this got away from you…” before telling hubby he hurt you or caused problems. A bit of grace upfront shows you’re not going to bite his head off, and that makes it far easier to accept blame and ask for forgiveness.

~ Paul – I’m XY, and no one likes being shamed!

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