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

A loving, intimate marriage relationship will leave room for gender differences without making the assumption that the other is wrong.

To spiritually benefit from marriage, we have to be honest. We have to look at our disappointments, own up to our ugly attitudes, and confront our selfishness.

Paul’s teachings on sexual purity and marriage were adopted as liberating in the pornographic, sexually exploitive Greco-Roman culture of the time—exploitive especially of slaves and women, whose value to pagan males lay chiefly in their ability to produce children and provide sexual pleasure. Christianity, as articulated by Paul, worked a cultural

talking to thousands of women on this subject, I’m convinced that in the moments of craving the deepest love, they are dying to be led into this type of profound and trustable sexual intimacy—beyond