For Better, for Worse: Sober Thoughts on Passionate Promises

By James Tunstead Burtchaell

Book Overview

For Better, for Worse: Sober Thoughts on Passionate Promises This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809126648
• ISBN13: 9780809126644
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Paulist Pr
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 6.3" x 0.4"

Customer Reviews

Reality Check...

I was loaned the book when I was engaged to my ex-husband. We never read it. I'm not saying it would have saved a marriage/divorce - but I will try to give it to all who I know are "in love," contemplating marriage, engaged, and even already married. This refreshing & thought-provoking book lays all out (EVERYTHING)plainly and simply and just forces you to think very practically about the person and relationship you're involved with and may be committing to. It made me re-think what commitment in marriage really is... and just what marriage really is... especially in a day when, as the author puts it, "No one seems to ask parents or grandparents anymore. I suspect it is not so much the young who don't want to ask as it is their elders who don't quite know how to answer." Some of this is hard to swallow - but if you're open-minded and willing to accept the fact that you don't have it all figured out... I think you'll find the topics worthy of some interesting thoughts and conversations. Read this with your boyfriend or girlfriend, fiance or even husband or wife. If you're reluctant, think about how interesting it is that we'll share ourselves so intimately (even outside of marriage) yet avoid "tough" conversations... Even if you don't agree with everything, the discussions this book generates will almost certainly be enlightening. I challenge you to read it with an open mind & with God's love for you in mind.