Happily
8 Commitments of Couples Who Laugh, Love & Last
Kevin A. Thompson
Book 02 · 2017
Happily
8 Commitments of Couples Who Laugh, Love & Last
Happy couples are not luckier than you. They are committed to eight specific things, and the list is shorter than you think.
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The idea
We talk about lasting marriages the way we talk about the weather — as if some couples simply got a better forecast. They did not.
The couples who still laugh together after thirty years made a set of decisions, and they made them again every year. Those decisions are learnable. None of them require a personality you do not have.
This is the list, one commitment at a time, with what each one costs and what it protects.
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What you will actually get
- Eight commitments
The specific promises that separate couples who last from couples who quit.
- What each one costs
Every commitment asks for something. Knowing the price up front is half the work.
- Where couples break
The predictable places these commitments fail, and how to catch it early.
- Starting from behind
What to do when you are years into a marriage that never had these.
Who it is for
Written with these readers in mind
Newly married couples
Set the terms before habits harden.
Couples at a turning point
An empty nest, a job change, a hard year.
Anyone rebuilding
Eight things to work on, in order, instead of everything at once.
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About the author
Kevin A. Thompson
Kevin is a teaching pastor at Bayside Church, where he oversees Married Life Ministries across nine locations in California. He is one of the more widely read voices in America on marriage and relationships.
A frequent guest on Focus on the Family and Family Life and featured in the New York Times, he holds a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University. He and his wife, Jenny, live in Auburn, California, with their two children.
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