Not Your Parents' Marriage: Bold Partnership for a New Generation

By Jerome Daley

Book Overview

Find God's Unique Shape for Your Marriage It's not just the two of you and God. The truth is, you bring your family into your relationship in more ways than you realize. Yet God has plans for your marriage that differ from the expectations of your parents' generation. Looking at the past, how do you know what to jettison and what to keep as your own? Jerome and Kellie Daley have wrestled with the tough questions about which spouse is responsible for what and why, how last night's fight could help you love each other more, and what it really means to leave your parents and become full partners in marriage. As you practice the freeing biblical truths about marriage, you discover that many of the practicalities that worked for previous generations are a poor fit in your relationship. Not Your Parents' Marriage examines God's dreams for marriage today, based on the scriptures and including honest dialog, fun questionnaires, and space for journaling. It's time to honor what God has done in the past while unlocking the creativity and passion that are unique to your relationship. Whether you are engaged, married, or somewhere on the way, God wants to do a new thing in your relationship. Are you ready to experience it? Includes discussion questions for couples or groups.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157856896X
• ISBN13: 9781578568963
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Waterbrook Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

helpful~~a fresh slant rooted in scripture

Wow--think I have a new book to hand to my friends b4/after weddings! This book frees couples from squishing themselves uncomfortably into preconceived ideas of roles and has a helpful emphasis on our tendencies to let pleasing families of origin run the show (versus honoring but individuating). A good, dog-eared but simple chew that is biblically-based. The Daleys let you in on their own struggles to rethink a marriage paradigm that wasn't working so well for them. It has a great mix of practicality and vision. That said, individuals' personalities and church background may effect how they respond to those moments where the Daleys step outside thoughts on a particular marriage at hand to paint a vision for this generation. Sarah and Jim Sumner's Just How Married Do You Want to Be? would be a good complement to this in its challenges to our self-centeredness (they are blessedly candid!) and its further exploration of how our motivational personalities interact (the Daleys also offer an evaluation of personalities and callings that is helpful, but the two offerings are very different). A Lasting Promise by Scott Stanley and other authors is invaluable for tackling (and avoiding) problems and building good communication. I sometimes buy folks Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas as well (one couple told me it saved their marriage before it started) although I do find some of the challenges a bit stereotyped or one-sided comparatively speaking (it is a book perhaps more geared to couples that really believe a man is THE authority and couples where wives are very emotional and mostly interested in domestic things; for them, it at least presents some challenges to the use of that authority but could also be harmful in application to wives in abusive marriages whom God would NOT call to just keep bending lower). My2.