How To Have A Joyous Marriage!
...These insights and tested
principles will help you build your marriage into a precious relationship of joy
and beauty.
HJM4 Edition 1.3, May 1996
This booklet is not to be sold! It has been provided as a free public
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© 1993 GLOBAL CHURCH OF GOD All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.
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Rob Carrico
With tears in their eyes, dozens and scores of women have told me how miserable
their marriages were. They obviously wish with all their hearts that things were
better, but they don't know what to do.
"My husband won't really open up and talk with me about our problems", many
women say.
"My psychologist told me to go have an affair and I would feel better," one
woman said. "But I know that's wrong and I just can't do that!"
In our "now generation," most folks don't think of the long-term consequences of
their actions, and our acceptance of "quickie" marriages and divorces only
compounds the problem. Why try to work through all the problems in your marriage
when you can just divorce and feel better right now?
In an outstanding recent article, former Secretary of Education, William J.
Bennett, made these insightful comments: "...but during the same recent 30-year
period there has been a 560% increase in violent crime; a 419% increase in
illegitimate births; a quadrupling in divorce rates; a tripling of...
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