Love Must Be Tough: New Hope for Marriages in Crisis Author: James C. Dobson | Language: English | ISBN:
B004GXB3EE | Format: EPUB
Love Must Be Tough: New Hope for Marriages in Crisis Description
America's family advocate, Dr. James Dobson, often teaches about the "critical decade"-those between the ages of 16 and 26 who are making major life decisions. Adapted from his best-selling book,
Life on the Edge, these seven pocket-sized booklets offer insight and advice for a generation searching for significance. Dobson addresses topics such as emotions and love, money, compatibility, God's will, and the ironies of life. These booklets provide invaluable, practical advice for teaching youth that the right decisions during this critical decade can be the grand beginning to a life that will never end.
- File Size: 951 KB
- Print Length: 268 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0849913411
- Publisher: Tyndale Momentum; 1 edition (December 21, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004GXB3EE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,166 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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There are some parts of this book that I agree with and some parts that I don't.
Here's what I agree with:
-- that if your spouse tries to leave you for another person, you shouldn't act pathetic by begging and pleading for them to stay. Instead you should act like a person with self-respect and let them go. Makes sense to me.
-- that you shouldn't accept blame for an affair. You didn't even know the affair was happening so how can you be an accomplice? Your partner may try to shift the blame to you in order to alleviate their own guilt. The author advises that you shield yourself against blame so that it bounces right back to the cheater where it belongs. Makes sense to me, too.
Here's what I disagree with:
-- the length of the book. There are some parts of the book where the author is simply repeating the same points over and over again. I believe this book could've been shorter in length.
-- that if a cheater comes crawling back to you, you should take them back. I believe forgiveness is good for the soul, but taking back someone who blatantly disregards your feelings is not. I realize I'm in the minority here...every book I've read on adultery encourages the victim to take back the abuser.
However, everyone I know who's taken back a cheater has been cheated on again...and these weren't weaklings either. These were tough love people who made it perfectly clear that cheating is unacceptable and won't be tolerated. And yet...after setting these clear-cut boundaries, these people still got cheated on again.
All books I've read on adultery hold the betrayed spouse accountable...
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