Making Marriage Beautiful
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What makes a marriage beautiful? Honesty? Compatibility? Physical and emotional intimacy? All of these are important, but there's one component that determines the quality and longevity of a marriage more than anything else: a willingness to grow. Because a wedding joins together two imperfect people, all couples experience disappointment, conflict, and pain. How husbands and wives respond to these challenges determines the kind of people they will become and the kind of marriage they will have. Making Marriage Beautiful reveals how the pursuit of Christ results in profound transformation for both the individual and the marriage. Rather than offering clichés and formulas, Greco relies on candor, humor, and real life stories to bring encouragement and wisdom to all couples, regardless of whether they have been married four weeks or forty years.
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Dorothy Greco and her husband, Christopher, have spent their entire twenty-five-year marriage helping men and women create and sustain healthy marriages. They have served numerous churches in the Greater Boston area for thirty years. Dorothy's writing has been featured in Relevant Magazine, Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Her.meneutics. She is a regular contributor for Gifted for Leadership, Today's Christian Woman, and Start Marriage Right. The Grecos have three sons and live near Boston.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Marriage Will Change You: What Do You Want That Change to Look Like?
- 2 Not Your Mother's Lasagna: Legacies, Wounds, and Unrealistic Expectations
- 3 Beyond Pink and Blue: Creating Christ-Centered Gender Expectations
- 4 An Unlikely Blessing: Mining Disappointment and Anger
- 5 Tuning In: Why Good Listeners Make Better Spouses
- 6 Unmasking Counterfeits: How Disordered Attachments and Addictions Thwart True Desire
- 7 Nonnegotiables: Confession and Forgiveness
- 8 A Paradox: How Suffering Leads to Love
- 9 Choosing Joy: God's Secret Weapon
- 10 It's Not Good to Be Alone: The Complex Gift of Community
- 11 Made Beautiful: The Redemptive Power of Sacrificial Love
- Notes
- About the Author
