When Egg Love Becomes Ham Love: 10 Steps to Supercharge your Marriage

By Gustavo & Marifer Ordóñez

Marriage doesn't fail for lack of love, but for lack of total commitment.
In these pages, you'll discover how to move from "egg love"-conditional, fragile, and fleeting-to "ham love" sacrificial, steadfast, and willing to give everything. The metaphor of the hen and the pig, which inspires this title, holds a profound truth: in marriage, it's not enough to contribute something meaningful... what's needed is complete surrender and total commitment.

In When Egg Love Becomes Ham Love, Gustavo and Marifer Ord ez-married for 27 years, parents, and mentors to more than 600 couples through marriage retreats-present a transformative 10-step journey to help you take your relationship, no matter where it stands today, toward a love that is strong, committed, and lasting.

Through real-life stories, simple exercises, and timeless principles from Christian morality and teaching, you will learn how to:

Spot the traps of superficial love.

Understand that you must first work on yourself, empty your heart, and choose to be "reborn" in order to love better.

Strengthen key areas: marital friendship, communication, sexuality, finances, relationships with extended family, conflict resolution, and forgiveness.

Make courageous choices that let the "I" die so the "we" can live.

Turn life's crises into opportunities for unity and growth.

Move from occasional gestures to a love that is total, free, faithful, fruitful, and enduring.

Invite God to be the center who renews and sustains, transforming the union of two into an unbreakable covenant of three: marriage as God intended.

More than a book to read and set on the shelf, this is a living guide to laugh, reflect, and act upon. Whether you want to take your marriage to the next level, feel that "love alone is no longer enough," or long to grow in the art of serving and loving, here you'll find the inspiration and practical tools to build a love that fulfills, sustains, and remains.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FVLVZ9M3
• ISBN13: 9798269179568
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"