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Planning to Have a Great Marriage
By: Dr. Gary Smalley, from the Smalley Relationship Center
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Whether it's a family, a school, a company, or a sports team, we cannot possibly guide our relationships safely through the waters of our day without a plan. That's the starting point. Without a clear plan of action that points out the way to the deep waters of intimacy and avoids the shallow rocks of marital ruin we're inviting heartache into our homes. It's critical that we clearly plan our lives and not let chance set their course.

There may have been a time in an earlier day when society itself delineated boundaries clearly enough to substitute for a clear purpose at home. But that's simply not true today. We're asking for a natural disaster or our own if we don't have a specific sense of direction for our families. And that's what this book [Love Is a Decision] is all about. It's our best effort to give you a workable, biblically based plan of action for building loving, lasting relationships.

Now we know that asking you to adopt a "plan" of action for your home sounds a great deal like work, but we can assure you that the effort spent on steering your relationship into safe waters is far less work than trying to get it off the rocks would be.

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