Love & Respect - Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

Love and Respect is an awesome book! It really helped me understand many things about myself and my husband. I appreciate the honesty even though it's hard to take sometimes. This book does bring up situations in which a man or woman is responsible for discord in the relationship. But it's truth. Some people can't handle that, so they should go read something coated with candy to help them better ignore the truth. I have found things that I needed to change because of this book. My marriage has been enriched because of it.

Reviewed by Elise G. (Larned, Kansas), August 25, 2007

Great book! I started reading it when I was engaged and my husband and I started rereading it together after we got married. It gave me goals toward what I "didnt want to do when I got married" before I got married, and there are still times when my husband will say something and I will think "hey that is just what that book was talking about!" It is truly an awsome compiling of several great truths about a male/female relationship. I would recommend it for engaged couples, couples going through premarital counsling, newlyweds, or couples that just want to polish up the rough edges in their relationship. It is truly the Christian "men are from mars, women are from venus" and I think that it will change as many relationships as that one did.

This book was recommended to us by our counselor. She is recommending it to every single one of the couples she counsels or has counseled. That's how much she believes in this book. My husband and I read the introduction and knew right away that it was going to help us build a stronger foundation and have a better marriage. The concept is so simple - he needs respect and she needs to know she's loved - but you'll have an A-HA moment and know that it's so very true. The book will feel like it's talking directly to you. Every couple should read this book - happy couples and couples in trouble.

By TJ's Mommy

Emerson Eggerichs' mutual excitement and burden about male and female relationships moved him to launch the Love and Respect Conferences in 1999. He was the senior pastor of East Lansing's thriving Trinity Church before devoting himself full time to building healthy marriages. Dr. Eggerichs has an M.A. in Communications from Wheaton College, a Master's of Divinity from Dubuque Seminary and a Ph.S. in Child and Family Ecology from Michigan State University. He and his wife, Sarah, have three adult children. He is the president of Love and Respect Ministries.

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