Take Me Out
Description
What if the one thing quietly destroying your marriage is the one thing you'd never admit?
Most couples don't fall apart because of dramatic betrayals. They unravel slowly - one selfish decision at a time.
In Take Me Out, Melvin and Jatashia Thomas draw from three powerful sources of hard-won truth: 125 combined years of marriage across generations of grandparents who made it work, nine years inside the courtroom where Melvin witnessed thousands of divorces and watched the same devastating patterns repeat, and their own marriage - the real lessons learned from the inside out.
What they discovered changes everything:
The couples who thrive aren't the ones who found the right person. They're the ones who chose every day to be the right person.
The shift is simple - but it isn't easy.
Take Me Out will challenge you to do something most people resist: take an honest look at your own behavior. Not your partner's. Yours.
Through ten transformative concepts, you'll learn how to:
- Recognize the subtle ways selfishness hides in everyday choices
- Redirect your energy from what you're receiving to what you're giving
- Move your relationship from "me" to "us" - and keep it there
Whether you're protecting a good marriage or trying to rescue a struggling one, this book is your invitation to stop waiting for your partner to change - and start becoming the partner they deserve.
Getting married is easy. Staying married takes everything you've got - and the willingness to give even more.
The marriage you want is possible. It starts with one decision: choose "us."