Loving Him Well

Practical Advice on Influencing Your Husband

De: Gary Thomas, Lisa Thomas - foreword

Narrado por: Gary Thomas

Women: you're not alone in your marriage. You never have been, and you never will be. While it may not always feel like it, God desires for you to have a relationally healthy, emotionally engaged, and spiritually mature husband with whom you can share your days.

In Loving Him Well, Gary Thomas builds on concepts from his best-selling book Sacred Marriage to reveal the inner workings of a man's heart and mind. He delves into Scriptures that help women gain biblical insight to influence their husbands. Exploring the research of neuroscientists, trained counselors, and abuse victim advocates, Gary also interviews dozens of wives to find what has worked and what hasn't as they've sought to build the best marriage possible. In this newly updated version of Sacred Influence, Gary Thomas outlines practical applications you can begin using today.

Thomas desires to "encourage women who are in good marriages that could get even better; and offer hope and a new path forward to women who feel invisible or marginalized in their marriage." You'll discover the influence you can gain and the peace of mind you can build when you go first to God for your worth, validation, protection, and provision and then learn how to use that platform to help your husband draw closer to you and closer to God.

After decades of marriage ministry, ministering to couples of various walks of life in one of the largest cities in America, and gaining a new sensitivity for many of the issues facing contemporary women, Gary has rewritten this book, adding new stories to help wives understand, love, and influence their husbands. Loving Him Well offers encouragement and biblically based support for the transformation of your marriage, drawing you and your husband closer together, the way God intended.

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Loved it.

Such an amazing book, it has helped me to see things in a new way.

God definitely cosigned this book!

I loved it. It was hard to listen to at times 🙂 but Gods will is as well!

Wonderful!

Full of guidance and wisdom. Thank you Gary for writing a book about real life struggles and offering hope for struggling christian women.

Worth the listen

This book is super encouraging, but if you are not ready to die to yourself, then it’s gonna be a lot to take in. But I did enjoy how he walked you through the male psyche so you can better understand your husband and how certain things or just simply not his fault but that it’s his brain. It’s super encouraging for wife’s that I have experienced trauma when it comes to their husbands porn habits. This book definitely dig deep and is super Raw. Get ready to do some examining of your own heart.

The practicality of the advices is the most attractive part: using real life examples makes it credible and easy to accept.

I love the honesty and vulnerability from which the book was born. It resonates with real people who face real challenges and problems in their marriage. It was a very encouraging book. Even though I’ve been happily married to a very godly man for over 30 years I still enjoy being challenged to improve as a wife and to honor the Lord Jesus with my life by honoring my husband and being the best wife I can be. Also I love the emphasis on personal prayer life and relationships with the Lord. It is vital in navigating single or married life.

His insight!

Love the advice! Offers great insight into a man’s perspective. Biblically sound and easy to follow!

Compelling

The way the author communicates is everything I needed! His examples and all the practical guidance are gold! I love that this book is for woman, so obviously it’s constructive.. yet you feel as though he is on your side and is so balanced and fair. Currently thanking God for something as life changing as this.

Helpful to understand a husband both spiritually and emotionally!

I loved it! I even bought the book to reread it! Great and encouraging book for wives!

Helpful but not written for people with trauma

I'm an asexual Christian (26F) from past abuse, and while I did find this book helpful, a part of me was discouraged by it. Specifically the sections about men's sexual appetite.
I've worked through my issues over the last 15+ years. But this book just reminded me that my future husband will always desire more from me than what I might be able to give him compared to another women with a higher sex drive. Especially if past porn is added to the mix from his past.
I want a family and am currently dating, I'm just worried of hurting a future spouse if I can't perform when that time comes.

A serving of humble pie in the best way possible

That was a whole lot of humble pie for me. Influencing your husband is the complete opposite of what I thought before listening to this book, it’s a journey of surrender, humility and (healthy) sacrificial love. And it’s God working on me as well.

The male perspectives are really insightful too, we truly were made differently, but we were made to complement each other.