Why is Marriage Good for the Soul?
Why Marriage? by Emma Atkins
Episode notes
In this special episode, FamilyLife Global directors, Neil and Sharoll Josephson share about how marriage can contribute to our holistic development as human beings. They share about the highs and lows of their own 47-year-long marriage and what has sustained them over its course.
Key quotation and references:
Website:
Books:
Henri Nouwen – Wounded Healers
Research:
Andrew Greely report
Quotations:
‘Marriage is our last best chance to grow up’
‘We rarely criticise somebody to better behaviour, we inspire somebody to better behaviour by believing in them’.
‘There’s something really freeing about being entirely safe’.
‘No marriage counsellor can c ...
Keywords
marriagethe soulhealingrelationship conflict