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Love Is a Decision: Proven Techniques to Keep Your Marriage Alive and Lively

by Gary Smalley

Practical choices for a lasting marriage

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Practical choices for a lasting marriage

Gary Smalley frames lasting love as something sustained through deliberate everyday choices, not feeling alone. Drawing on stories from couples he has counseled, spiritual lessons, and biblical principles, the guide combines relationship advice with practical techniques. Its topics range from meaningful conversation and keeping courtship alive to rebuilding trust, intimacy, and family connection. The book presents marriage as a relationship that encounters both happy and difficult periods, and focuses on habits couples can use to nurture or strengthen their bond. Its Christian perspective is central to the approach, alongside its emphasis on honoring a spouse and maintaining friendship within marriage.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Engaged couples preparing to build shared habits
  • Newlyweds seeking practical guidance for married life
  • Long-married couples interested in renewing trust, communication, or closeness

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Commitment as a daily choiceCommunication and honoring a spouseTrust, intimacy, and friendshipChristian principles for marriage

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Book overview

Discover a simple yet profound plan for a marriage of depth, warmth, and excitement! Guide your marriage for a lifetime by learning how to make your spouse feel truly honored, keep courtship alive, rebuild trust, and become best friends with your family.

Love is more than a feeling. It is a choice. And while that sounds less than romantic, nobody gets married and ever plans on getting a divorce--but every marriage is headed for both happy and hard times. According to family counselor and bestselling author Gary Smalley, good marriages are no accident. And deciding to love--in the practical ways outlined here--can result in relationships that are tougher than those tough times.

Using stories from couples he has counseled, spiritual lessons, and emotional word pictures, Smalley teaches biblical principles and practical techniques for building, re-building, and nurturing relationships.

This classic guide, perfect for gifting, is ideal for newly engaged couples, newlyweds, and veteran married couples alike. You will learn how to:

  • Learn the art of meaningful conversation
  • Energize your mate in 60 seconds
  • Find the surprising key to satisfying sex
  • Discover the surprising secret of a close-knit family
  • Tap into the unfailing power source behind a great marriage

In this timeless bestseller, Smalley and Trent explain how to take advantage of the unique strengths of women and men to forge stronger marriages that will withstand the greatest tests.

Love is a Decision is also available in Spanish, El amore s una decision.

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