A marriage of 20 years has guts to spill, stories to tell and lessons to teach. Mark Driscoll and his wife Grace have done just that in their new book Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together. Of course this book is not a detailed account of their sex life, as many I am sure are hoping, instead it is a book that shares the truth about what can happen in a marriage, what can end a marriage, what totally messes up a marriage and what can be done to start healing in a marriage.
This book is a heavy read, every page is packed with punch and opportunities to better your own marriage, sex life, and life. It’s a page turner, arming you with information that your mother forgot to tell you. We all waltz into marriage with our own ideas of what it is. Usually it’s an idea that a marketing company, an author, a TV producer or someone in our lives has given us.
If you are married you’ve probably been hit square between the eyes with an eye opening reality, about 3 months into your marriage, that this might not be exactly what you signed up for. Everyone else’s marriage seems to be fine, you figure yours will be too, someday it will measure up and be okay, or you concede defeat and grin and bear it. This book is a tool to change your marriage from a grin and bear it to a marriage filled with joy, great sex, and real communication.
It doesn’t just stop there, it is packed full of questions, that as Christians, we’ve all asked ourselves; Can we do that?! You know the stuff that you wouldn’t dare ask your mother, you’re too embarrassed to ask a friend and you certainly wouldn’t want your pastor to find out you’ve tried a few of them. Mark and Grace bring a biblical perspective to the questions you thought you’d never hear a pastor answer honestly, thoughtfully and prayerfully.
The final chapter is chalked so full of quality life changing tools that it, in itself, could be a stand alone book.
This book will change your life if you let it. It can be read and shelved, or it can be read and applied. Depending on which you choose your life and marriage will be better for having just read it.
Advanced Reader's Copy of the book has been provided courtesy of Thomas Nelson and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.
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