The Wholehearted Marriage: Fully Engaging Your Most Important Relationship

The Wholehearted Marriage offers practical tools for helping couples keep a passionate connection with one another and understand the role their hearts play in their lives. Drs. Smalley and Stoever maintain that circumstances such as busy lifestyles differences between spouses personal baggage the loss of a loved one childhood trauma etc. trigger reactions that condition us to close up our hearts for protection blocking the flow of love. A disengaged protected heart makes it impossible to experience an intimate connected marriage. As a result couples drift apart trying to find some version of contentment or they give up altogether and look for love somewhere else. . Through their experiences in marriage counseling Drs. Smalley and Stoever discovered that the commonly heard phrase I dont love him/her anymore is merely a camouflaged misunderstanding about what true love is and Gods design for it. They affirm that love is more than just a feeling and that to have true lasting intimacy couples need to learn to love wholeheartedly.