Making Marriage Beautiful

Lifelong Love, Joy, and Intimacy Start with You

Dorothy Littell Greco, Christopher Greco

• Publisher: David C Cook
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781434710000
• Print ISBN:
  9780781414081

What makes a marriage beautiful? Honesty? Compatibility? Physical and emotional intimacy? All of these are important, but there's one component that determines the quality and longevity of a marriage more than anything else: a willingness to grow. Because a wedding joins together two imperfect people, all couples experience disappointment, conflict, and pain. How husbands and wives respond to these challenges determines the kind of people they will become and the kind of marriage they will have. Making Marriage Beautiful reveals how the pursuit of Christ results in profound transformation for both the individual and the marriage. Rather than offering clichés and formulas, Greco relies on candor, humor, and real life stories to bring encouragement and wisdom to all couples, regardless of whether they have been married four weeks or forty years.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Marriage Will Change You: What Do You Want That Change to Look Like?
• 2 Not Your Mother’s Lasagna: Legacies, Wounds, and Unrealistic Expectations
• 3 Beyond Pink and Blue: Creating Christ-Centered Gender Expectations
• 4 An Unlikely Blessing: Mining Disappointment and Anger
• 5 Tuning In: Why Good Listeners Make Better Spouses
• 6 Unmasking Counterfeits: How Disordered Attachments and Addictions Thwart True Desire
• 7 Nonnegotiables: Confession and Forgiveness
• 8 A Paradox: How Suffering Leads to Love
• 9 Choosing Joy: God’s Secret Weapon
• 10 It’s Not Good to Be Alone: The Complex Gift of Community
• 11 Made Beautiful: The Redemptive Power of Sacrificial Love
• Notes
• About the Author