The Good News About Marriage: Debunking Discouraging Myths about Marriage and Divorce
Written by Shaunti Feldhahn and Tally Whitehead
Narrated by Shaunti Feldhahn
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About this audiobook
Divorce is not the biggest threat to marriage. Discouragement is.
You've probably heard the grim facts: Half of all marriages end in divorce. The divorce rate inside the church is the same as outside. And, most marriages are just holding on. But what if these "facts" are actually myths?
In The Good News About Marriage, best-selling author Shaunti Feldhahn presents groundbreaking research that reveals the shocking, incredibly inspiring truth:
- The actual divorce rate has never gotten close to 50 percent.
- Those who attend church regularly have a significantly lower divorce rate than those who don't.
- Most marriages are happy.
- Simple changes make a big difference in most marriage problems.
- Most remarriages succeed.
For too long, our confidence in marriage has been undermined by persistent misunderstandings and imperfect data. This landmark audio book will radically change how we think and talk about marriage - and what we can dare to hope from it.
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Shaunti Feldhahn
Shaunti Feldhahn is a popular public speaker, bestselling author and social researcher. Her eye-opening books, including For Young Women Only: What You Need to Know About How Guys Think, have hit a nerve, selling two million copies in twenty languages. (The latest translation? Tigrinya. She didn’t know where that was from, either.) Shaunti’s research is regularly featured in an oddly diverse array of media (picture Focus on the Family one day, Cosmo the next). Shaunti and her husband and two active children reside in Atlanta and enjoy every moment of living at warp speed.
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Reviews for The Good News About Marriage
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Many people erroneously believe that half of all marriages end in divorce but that just isn't true.Once again, Shaunti Feldhahn brings light to the subject of marriage. It is good news to hear that most marriages are, in fact, happy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Here's the main implied point to all relationships: learn to communicate with each other, and ask tough questions of each other, instead of being silent. This will solve all of your problems, barring a union that never should've taken place or outliers like straight up abuse (that's a deeper atypical issue, not relevant to most people).
The irony that incorrect information encouraged the results it touted is amazing, because the reverse can be (and is) true: the truth will set you free - change your paradigm, change your approach and assume better results.
To all the complaints from people about all the stats: would you like to be the one to do all this work to get all these results & calculations? I'm guessing, probably not. So say thank you, instead.
Does everyone need to know all of this? Maybe not, but knowing all this helps all of our conversations - being informed, when we are in the presence of a conversation where misinformation is spoken, we can instead reveal the truth. Then people can make an informed decision that is rooted in awareness, instead of ignorance.
Thank you, this was interesting! Good to know.