Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage: Unlocking the Secrets to Life, Love and Marriage

Our spouses are valuable and precious, and we need to treasure them—to attend to them. When we attend to those we love, a desire rises within us to do anything we can to build our relationships with them.

What a woman wants—what she is longing for in her deepest heart of hearts—what all women want—is simply this: She wants to be chosen.

The good news is, it takes only one to put a marriage on the footing of a covenant marriage. Don’t ask God to change someone so that they will treat you better. Ask God to help you to accept your death, and then it won’t matter how the other person treats you. Divine love keeps giving no matter how people change or act. Divine love gives it all—loc

When men communicate, we generally say what we mean and mean what we say. If we didn’t say it, we didn’t mean it, and if we did say it, we meant only what we said—not what you think we meant by what we said. Women don’t buy that. They are constantly looking for the “deeper meaning.” But when you dig and keep on digging to search for a man’s deeper

make sure we find someone who truly believes and lives by the principles of love, acceptance, patience, and forgiveness.

Despite all the advice I can offer in this book, nobody does marriage perfectly. We all mess up. We all make mistakes. We all create poo that has to be dealt with. Forgiveness keeps you from defining your future based on the mistakes of the past. Forgiveness is that critical reset button essential for any marriage to succeed. You want to give your

Something formative happens in us, as well as in our relationships, when we choose to value our spouses and develop unconditional desire for them no matter how they act. Eventually they will feel confident that they are loved and will want to change in order to please us.

We must commit to discovering and practicing the laws that govern relationships if we want to enrich and empower our marriages to be great. And we must learn to avoid the things that rob and destroy relationships. As we talk about these laws, I will be describing the fundamental differences between men and women.

Jesus showed us how this law works in our relationships with others: “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. Give, and it will be given to you.”14 Simply stated, “If you smile at someone, he most likely will smile back. If you strike someone, the chances are he

Refusing to understand and appreciate our male/female differences, or trying to cover them up, results in tragedy.