Giving Time a Chance: The Secret of a Lasting Marriage

By Ronna Romney and Beppie Harrison

Book Overview

For anyone who wants to make a new marriage work or an old marriage stronger, here is inspiration and insight that no marriage counselor or psychologist could never give you. Giving Time A Chance is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871314169
• ISBN13: 9780871314161
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 1.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

From DJ~

For anyone who wants to make a new marriage work or an old marriage stronger, here is inspiration and insight that no marriage counselor or psychologist could ever give you. In the wake of open marriages, marriage contracts, and no-fault divorce, the authors of this remarkable book have uncovered what it is that can make a marriage last a lifetime in these tumultuous times. Turning to the real experts (couples whose marriages have withstood the test of time), they have found that for all the striking dissimilarities in successful marriages, at the core of each is a real and definable commitment by the partners to each other and to the marriage. In the course of their research the authors have sat in hundreds of kitchens and living rooms listening to husbands and wives talk about how they have forged their relationships. They have interviewed famous couples--Lee and Mary Iacocca, Albert and Nancy Nipon, Jack and Olivia Anderson--as well as dozens of ordinary people. The marriages ranged from two-paycheck, childless relationships to male dominated families with a wife and kids at home, from affluent urban unions to marriages plagues with financial problems, from those fate has blessed to those fate has been less kind to. What was expressed again and again in these eloquent and moving stories was the importance of putting marriage first in your life, of giving time a chance, and of believing that the good times will be renewed if a couple can get by the bad. Here is an intimate portrait of marriage written straight from the heart, and from it the authors have drawn nine basic reference points against which anyone can measure the quality of commitment in his or her own marriage. Every marriage has times when it seems it would be simpler just to walk out; the strength of a good marriage is not that those times don't happen, but that no one walks. Giving Time a Chance is must reading for any couple planning to marry, for any couple thinking of divorce, for any couple wondering whether romance can be renewed, or for anyone questioning whether marriage still has a role in society. Here at last is a book for our times--a model of marriage in modern America. "Should be read by everyone who wants to make a new marriage work or keep an old marriage strong." ~ Jack Anderson "Giving Time a Chance is the most sensible and interesting book on the subject of marriage that I have read in years. The authors have researched their cases thoroughly and their writing style is fascinating. Anyone who is realy serious about making mariage work would do well to study this book carefully." ~ Norman Vincent Peale