Love and Respect Review
Love and Respect: The love she most desires and the respect he desperately needs - by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs.
Book Description:
Discover the Single Greatest Secret to a Successful Marriage
Psychological studies affirm it, and the Bible has been saying it for ages. Cracking the communication code between husband and wife involves understanding one thing: that unconditional respect is as powerful for him as unconditional love is for her. It's the secret to marriage that every couple seeks, and yet few couples ever find.
Today, you and your mate can start fresh with the ground-breaking guidance that Dr. Emerson Eggerichs provides in this book. His revolutionary message, featured on Focus on the Family, is for anyone: in marital crisis...wanting to stay happily married...who's feeling lonely. It's for engaged couples...victims of affairs...pastors and counselors seeking material that can save a marriage.
Using Dr. Eggerich's breakthrough techniques, couples nationwide are achieving a brand-new level of intimacy and learning how to: - stop the Crazy Cycle of conflict - initiate the Energizing Cycle of change - enjoy the Rewarded Cycle of new passion
And if you'll take this biblically based counsel to heart, your marriage could be next!
My Review:
The basic premise of Love & Respect (for wives anyway, which is how I was reading it - as a wife) is that we need to unconditionally respect our husbands, based on Ephesians 5:33, "Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband" (NIV). According to Dr. Eggerichs, marriages get caught in the "Crazy Cycle" (as he calls it): The wife does not show respect to her husband, so he does not show her love, so she does not show him respect, so he does not show her love... and it can start with either party. The author gives ways to break the "Crazy Cycle", which usually means realizing and admitting your part in it, and being honest about your feelings as well.
I would recommend this book to any wife, whether she is struggling in her marriage or not. It provided some very good opportunities for conversation with my husband, which is always important to any marriage. Sometimes we forget to go past the 'factual' conversations, of how our days went and what chores need done. This provided opportunity for us to continue to learn about one another and grow together in our marriage. I definitely came away having learned more about how my actions and reactions affect my husband, and about my responsibilities to God in my marriage.
I plan to share this book with my sister-in-law, as she and her husband have been working through some issues and I think this book would help them a lot, to get out of their own 'crazy cycle'.
I received a copy of this book from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their Booksneeze book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review of the book.
Book Description:
Discover the Single Greatest Secret to a Successful Marriage
Psychological studies affirm it, and the Bible has been saying it for ages. Cracking the communication code between husband and wife involves understanding one thing: that unconditional respect is as powerful for him as unconditional love is for her. It's the secret to marriage that every couple seeks, and yet few couples ever find.
Today, you and your mate can start fresh with the ground-breaking guidance that Dr. Emerson Eggerichs provides in this book. His revolutionary message, featured on Focus on the Family, is for anyone: in marital crisis...wanting to stay happily married...who's feeling lonely. It's for engaged couples...victims of affairs...pastors and counselors seeking material that can save a marriage.
Using Dr. Eggerich's breakthrough techniques, couples nationwide are achieving a brand-new level of intimacy and learning how to: - stop the Crazy Cycle of conflict - initiate the Energizing Cycle of change - enjoy the Rewarded Cycle of new passion
And if you'll take this biblically based counsel to heart, your marriage could be next!
My Review:
The basic premise of Love & Respect (for wives anyway, which is how I was reading it - as a wife) is that we need to unconditionally respect our husbands, based on Ephesians 5:33, "Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband" (NIV). According to Dr. Eggerichs, marriages get caught in the "Crazy Cycle" (as he calls it): The wife does not show respect to her husband, so he does not show her love, so she does not show him respect, so he does not show her love... and it can start with either party. The author gives ways to break the "Crazy Cycle", which usually means realizing and admitting your part in it, and being honest about your feelings as well.
I would recommend this book to any wife, whether she is struggling in her marriage or not. It provided some very good opportunities for conversation with my husband, which is always important to any marriage. Sometimes we forget to go past the 'factual' conversations, of how our days went and what chores need done. This provided opportunity for us to continue to learn about one another and grow together in our marriage. I definitely came away having learned more about how my actions and reactions affect my husband, and about my responsibilities to God in my marriage.
I plan to share this book with my sister-in-law, as she and her husband have been working through some issues and I think this book would help them a lot, to get out of their own 'crazy cycle'.
I received a copy of this book from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their Booksneeze book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review of the book.