Paradigms of Marriage: Ten Ways to Ensure and Restore Marital Happiness: A Christian Perspective

ISBN: 0595398170

Author: Samms, Robert

Condition: New

For more than thirty years, author Dr. Robert O. A. Samms has counseled couples and performed their wedding ceremonies. But the contrast between the excitement of the wedding and the disappointment of the couples' lives together has become more glaring in recent years. The Census of Canada and the U.S. Census maintain that over 50 percent of marriages fail.Dr. Samms and his wife, Pamela, have dedicated their lives to helping married couples. Paradigms of Marriage: Ten Ways to Ensure and Restore Marital Happiness: A Christian Perspective is a practical guide that parallels their motivational series, Marriage Motivational Series. Based on the idea that everyone who marries hopes for happiness, Paradigms of Marriage discusses the following topics to help couples understand the reasons most unions drift toward problems and others travel on the path to happiness:Love: Security and secretsCommitmentConflictControlCompromiseCommunicationChildrenFamily financeSex and intimacySpirituality and serviceThe result of four years of research and reflection on the best way to communicate the key issues in a marriage relationship, Paradigms of Marriage will help you ensure or restore marital bliss and make your marriage a success.