Product Description

Based upon Ephesians 5:33 and extensive biblical and psychological research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the power of unconditional love and unconditional respect and how husbands and wives can reap the benefits of marriage that God intended.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #398 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

From the Inside Flap
Discover the Single Greatest Secret to a Successful Marriage

Psychological studies affirm it, and the Bible has been saying it for ages. Cracking the communication code between husband and wife involves understanding one thing: that unconditional respect is as powerful for him as unconditional love is for her. It's the secret to marriage that every couple seeks, and yet few couples ever find.

Today, you and your mate can start fresh with the ground-breaking guidance that Dr. Emerson Eggerichs provides in this book. His revolutionary message, featured on Focus on the Family, is for anyone: in marital crisis...wanting to stay happily married...who's feeling lonely. It's for engaged couples...victims of affairs...pastors and counselors seeking material that can save a marriage.

Using Dr. Eggerich's breakthrough techniques, couples nationwide are achieving a brand-new level of intimacy and learning how to: - stop the Crazy Cycle of conflict - initiate the Energizing Cycle of change - enjoy the Rewarded Cycle of new passion

And if you'll take this biblically based counsel to heart, your marriage could be next!

About the Author
Excited yet burdened about male and female relationships, EMERSON EGGERICHS launched the Love and Respect Conferences in August 1999 Emerson was the senior pastor or East Lansing's thriving Trinity Church before devoting himself full-time to building healthy marriages. Dr. Eggerichs has a M.A. in communications from Wheaton College, a Master's of Divinity from Dubuque Seminary, and a Ph.D. in child and family ecology from Michigan State University. He and his wife, Sarah, live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and have three adult children. He is the president of Love and Respect Ministries.

Customer Reviews

Very insightful
Although Part One (of three) in this book is slow reading (and 100 pages long!), it is well worth slogging through it to get to Part Two (how men can show their wives how they love them) and Part Three (how women can show their husbands they respect them).

For the people who complain that the book takes too strong of a stance on the differences in roles, expectations and positions of men and women (which the author supports with Biblical references), I would say - wait until you've lived a little longer, then set aside your notions and truly OBSERVE the truths about the differences between men and women - we are NOT the same!

I plan to give this to several friends, even the ones who probably wouldn't admit that it will improve their marriages. A lot of people in my age group have been married for 10 to 20 years and are struggling with a lot of the long-standing issues (the Crazy Cycle) detailed in this book. This book WILL save some marriages, but only if it gets the attention of those that need it most! Pass it on!

Awesome and insightful book!
Don't be fooled by those who down-talk this book. The book was right on point. Some reviews say the author talks down on women and say it's their fault men don't love them. They fail to mention that it teaches form men to make peace humbly in order to defuse the disagreement and it promotes unconditional love and a stronger relationship with God as the reward for faithfully trying to reconcile the marriage whether or not your spouse is willing to do the same.

While reading this book, I could see myself as well as my fiancée in the stories and illustrations he gives. I know my fiancée loves me but I feel joy when I know she looks up to me and respects me and uplifts me to her friends and co-workers. I also can feel a warmness from her when I stroke her face, look in her eyes, play with her hair, talk with her about her problems without being Mr. Fix-it.

This book goes over all this and more. Everything is backed up by scripture - something none of the negative reviewers can refute.

Have an open mind and more importantly, an open heart when reading this book so that God through this book can reveal your true self and counsel you to a blessed marriage. I'm convinced that the negative reviewers did not have this mindset when reading this book. Else they would have focused on the truth and not the rinky dink things like his mentioning of PMS-ing or their belief that he was blaming women for the reason men being the way they are.

Get the book, its worth it!

Improve your marriage!
This book can change your marriage! It helps husbands see that their wife's greatest need is for love; and wives see that their husband's greatest need is for respect. Dr. Eggerichs reveals three cycles in a marriage that helps you understand how love and respect compliment each other.