Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance
The book written by Dr. James C. Dobson discusses a variety of practical advice for humanity’s marriage enrichment. Edited from the original form with the same title of “Love for a Lifetime,” this book fashions a daily reminder of selected messages for better marriage. Designed to be a small size, people can bring it everyday for reading everywhere to keep the key notes in mind. It consists of hundred forty short omnibus messages, which are not in order of category.
As the author’s groundwork, this book insists that marriage be enriched when a husband and a wife comprehend each trait and they endeavor to fill each other’s sexual needs to become one. The main points especially for the purpose of marriage enrichment are described as the following three: abstinence before marriage, vision statement for a better couple, mystique for successful sexual relationship between a husband and a wife.
The author articulates, to singles and parents who have children, that virginity is the best foundation for marriage. He finds out the meaning of abstinence in a positive sense that each has lived for the sake of the future spouse up to the marriage moment. He expresses, to those who have completed abstinence, that “you have reserved yourself exclusively for one another’s pleasure and love."
Understanding the characteristics of each gender and generating something rich in a couple’s unified situation forms the most fundamental ideas of this book. A variety of vision statements represent the contents of the enriched stages observed in advanced couples. The author describes a vision of qualified conjugal relationship in Christian view as “the mystical bond between the believer and Christ.”Intimacy symbolizes the typically gained enrichment by a couple’s committed effort. An example for the author to desire as intimate relation is “being able to bow together in prayer as the day begins or ends.”Establishing intimacy within spouses is, however, not an easy task. According to the author, marriage requires “iron-willed determination to hang together at all costs.”
As one of the most significant aspects of human conjugal intimacy, the author pursues a satisfying sexual relationship, within which both a husband and a wife sensitively understand each unique nature in every motion of emotional attitude. When attempting to sexually unite into one, the success depends on how much a couple understands each other in intimate relation. In particular, when discussing conjugal sexual intercourse, the author asks a man to more understand a woman. He teaches a husband regarding a wife in sexual behaviors, saying “the way a woman feels about her husband sexually is a by-product of their romantic relationship at the time."
Since the author is a prominent scholar regarding the family issue as well as is speaking on through thousands of radio facilities for counseling, the words and their structures seem sophisticated and practically universal. Therefore, though his ideas with respect to better marriage stem from Christian faith, they appeal also to humanists such as sex revolutionists, to say nothing of non-Christian ordinary citizens. His abundant counseling experiences concerning marriage have made it possible for him to precisely explore masculinity and femininity, and to comprehend that conjugal love develops through a lifetime by relevant approaches based on sensitive understanding of each gender. Every his factual explication so effectively touches a concrete situational feeling which a couple may experience that it is persuasive also for the idealistic.
As the author’s groundwork, this book insists that marriage be enriched when a husband and a wife comprehend each trait and they endeavor to fill each other’s sexual needs to become one. The main points especially for the purpose of marriage enrichment are described as the following three: abstinence before marriage, vision statement for a better couple, mystique for successful sexual relationship between a husband and a wife.
The author articulates, to singles and parents who have children, that virginity is the best foundation for marriage. He finds out the meaning of abstinence in a positive sense that each has lived for the sake of the future spouse up to the marriage moment. He expresses, to those who have completed abstinence, that “you have reserved yourself exclusively for one another’s pleasure and love."
Understanding the characteristics of each gender and generating something rich in a couple’s unified situation forms the most fundamental ideas of this book. A variety of vision statements represent the contents of the enriched stages observed in advanced couples. The author describes a vision of qualified conjugal relationship in Christian view as “the mystical bond between the believer and Christ.”Intimacy symbolizes the typically gained enrichment by a couple’s committed effort. An example for the author to desire as intimate relation is “being able to bow together in prayer as the day begins or ends.”Establishing intimacy within spouses is, however, not an easy task. According to the author, marriage requires “iron-willed determination to hang together at all costs.”
As one of the most significant aspects of human conjugal intimacy, the author pursues a satisfying sexual relationship, within which both a husband and a wife sensitively understand each unique nature in every motion of emotional attitude. When attempting to sexually unite into one, the success depends on how much a couple understands each other in intimate relation. In particular, when discussing conjugal sexual intercourse, the author asks a man to more understand a woman. He teaches a husband regarding a wife in sexual behaviors, saying “the way a woman feels about her husband sexually is a by-product of their romantic relationship at the time."
Since the author is a prominent scholar regarding the family issue as well as is speaking on through thousands of radio facilities for counseling, the words and their structures seem sophisticated and practically universal. Therefore, though his ideas with respect to better marriage stem from Christian faith, they appeal also to humanists such as sex revolutionists, to say nothing of non-Christian ordinary citizens. His abundant counseling experiences concerning marriage have made it possible for him to precisely explore masculinity and femininity, and to comprehend that conjugal love develops through a lifetime by relevant approaches based on sensitive understanding of each gender. Every his factual explication so effectively touches a concrete situational feeling which a couple may experience that it is persuasive also for the idealistic.
