Many marriages fall apart because couples don't want to get real about their baggage, negative history, and other obstacles that may be standing in the way of building a healthy marriage. Sadly, after saying I do, lots of husbands and wives gloss over their individual issues, which act as barriers to the two of them coming together in any meaningful, genuine way.
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But not Mr. Eddie and Mrs. Tamara George, co-authors of Married for Real: Building a Loving, Powerful Life Together (Abingdon Press). These two, who have spent 13 years as a couple and 7 years as husband and wife, have unlocked their own formula for building a strong relationship. It is rooted in the tried and true--though not new--idea of getting real.
The two will be the first to admit that they aren't perfect, personally or collectively. But they have given their lives to Christ and are working every day to surrender themselves and their relationship to God.
Of the book, Eddie and Tamara say, "Are we relationship experts? No. Do we have degrees in psychology or counseling? No again. But we believe we have something worth saying. We each bring a lifetime of relationship experience to this book, and we have thirteen years of togetherness that have taught us what it takes to make a
relationship work. Could we have benefited from a book like this? Absolutely! That's one of the big reasons we want to do it."
For those who may be struggling silently inside a rocky relationship, Married for Real will help them see there is another couple in the world, namely Eddie and Tamara, who can relate to them.
Of course, to look at their seemingly charmed lives, one might assume they are anything but an ordinary, everyday couple.
SOURCE: EEW Magazine
Angela Blackwell
