Book Review - Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together

A raw look at how to make marriages better.

It takes a look at what messes up marriages, so you can turn your marriage into a good one. It borrows concepts from great marriage communication books like, Love & Respect, and The 5 Love Languages. The book tackles honesty, building your friendship with your spouse, life planning, sex (what a christian husband and wife can or can't do), wisdom, and biblical roles in marriage. In this book we see marriage as the beautiful gift that God intended it to be.

The authors (a pastor and his wife) are honest and vulnerable and tackle problems and questions with biblical based answers. The only problem is their false theology (trinity) occasionally works it's way in to explanations. On 3 occasions I remember the trinity being mentioned. Also, one of the answers to a question was answered by "explaining" how the Law was done away with. It was a big let down, but for me, it didn't spoil the all of the other lessons of the book. I found the vast majority of the book to be very helpful in understanding what to expect and how to tackle problems in marriage.

This book feels like a conversation with a older friend who's learned a few things about marriage and passing on advice. Some of it is good some of it is a bit off base. Overall, I feel I learned from this book. I can't fully recommend this book, however, because of the occasional false theology.

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