Love Is Not For Wimps

I just finished reading Passionate Marriage
by David Schnarch, Ph.D. A brilliant
book, full of so many insights I could probably write about it for months. The essence of his work is about finding and
holding onto yourself while you’re still in the committed relationship,
allowing your partner to do the same, and using sex as the crucible in which
you each learn how to love yourselves more deeply.

He repeatedly says that nobody’s ready for
marriage; marriage itself makes us ready.
He also says that