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Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love, and Marriage

Author: Visit Amazon's Mark Gungor Page | Language: English | ISBN: 1416558799 | Format: PDF

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"Mark has written a fun and enlightening book that can help all couples communicate and understand each other better." -- John Gray, PhD, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

"Mark Gungor uses a brilliant combination of humor and no-nonsense straight talk to address the frailties of modern marriage and offers practical solutions to make it better." -- Ken Davis, author, comedian, and radio host of Lighten Up and Live!

"Mark Gungor has a gift. His passionate message about marriage breaks through the current myths and misinformation in our culture and renews hope that anyone can experience a happy, sexy, satisfying marriage. Gungor is a national treasure. It's wonderful to see that he's as good on paper -- as immediate and as life-changing -- as he is in person at his Laugh Your Way seminars." -- Diane Sollee, founder and director of Smart Marriages

"Mark Gungor has all the credentials and experience to weigh in on the issue of marriage, but his street-level perspective and his tongue-in-cheek way of conveying his wisdom make it easy to absorb the truth that he shares on a subject that -- for many couples -- is no laughing matter." -- Dr. Tim Kimmel, president of Family Matters and author of Raising Kids for True Greatness

"This was more than a book to us, it was an experience. We felt understood, empowered, and completely covered. This book will help you!" -- Matt & Laurie Crouch, Trinity Broadcasting Network

"Marriage books? I've read them all. This one's the best -- absolutely rock solid advice, delivered in hilarious prose. This is the first marriage book that's totally fair to men, and totally liberating to women." -- David Murrow, author of Why Men Hate Going to Church

About the Author

Mark Gungor is a pastor, motivational speaker, author, and musician. With thirty years of speaking all around the globe, Mark's latest endeavor is to help young couples unlock the secrets of a successful marriage. In is seminars, Mark teaches principles for marriage in a way that empowers couples without being "preachy." Born in New York, he now resides in Stevens Point, Wisconsin where he is the CEO of Laugh Your Way America and Pastor of a local church. Mark and his wife Debbie have been married for thirty-two years and have two grown children and two grandchildren.

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition (March 3, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416558799
ISBN-13: 978-1416558798
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

My husband and I have been married for 32 years and have been to 6 marriage counselors and have read (me 8, him 2) at least 8 self help/marriage type books over those years. We were invited to go to a comedy show with a couple who had been given extra tickets. It was at a church and thought, "It must be a Christian comedian." We had no problem with that because we were Christians. We sat there the first 2 hours and laughed our butts off at realistic things men and women do. Then Mark stated, "Thank you for coming and we'll see you for the next session tomorrow at 10am." My husband and I looked at each other, puzzled and said, "We're in a married seminar!!!" We decided to come back, in which it still had much humor but more in depth - but the humor lighten our ability to hear the more in-depth stuff in the coming sessions. At the end of seminar Mark has you stand to face each other and look at each other in the eyes without taking them off (very hard to do with past hurts) and repeat after him - loving statements that broke down years of bitterness. Tears began to flow as we hadn't done that in many years, maybe only when we were exchanging vows and felt like we were exchanging vows all over again with eyes to see.

Of all the counselors and books we read, nothing has been so restorative and healing as this seminar. There is nothing like humor to pass through the walls of bitterness so easily and is more seen in the seminars than in the book or even the DVD of the seminars, as it doesn't show the entire seminar - but there are also details in the book that weren't in the seminar.

What Marks approach taught me more than anything is, I walked away with knowing how men think with a big, "Oh!

We're doing the series in a group at my church and currently we're about halfway through the video and discussion series. Here's my problem with the book/course: I'd estimate that about half of the couples doing the program kind of want to 'tweak' a marriage which is rusty, and occasionally problematic, while the other half of us showed up wanting to fix a marriage which at times feels desperate -- you know, the "go days without speaking to each other, how the heck did I ever end up with you in the first place, is that all there is to life" situation. "Laughing your way" is pretty good for helping the first group, but pretty darned near useless for the second group. In other words, there's a pretty big difference between being pissed off at your hubby because he leaves the toilet seat up and being pissed off at your hubby because he hates your children who also happen to be his stepchildren. Obviously, fixing the first situation is significantly easier than fixing the second.

My husband hates the series. The word he keeps using is "simplistic" -- it's all that Mars vs. Venus stuff which most of us already know anyway, and the series doesn't go deep enough in terms of actually identifying resentments, nor is it biblical despite the fact that it's used at many churches.

And at the risk of getting all "shrewy feminist a la Kate gosselin or Hilary Clinton or something", I sometimes find that he tends to emphasize altering behaviors over actually looking at the situation and thinking about whether or not it is actually unjust or inequitable.

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