THE MARRIAGE MANIFESTO is a rebel call, imploring us to radically transform the way we think about marriage and the way we live it…
From the moment of birth, we are wired for relationship and connection. And for most of us, the search for authentic companionship culminates in marriage. But the reality rarely matches the promise. Approximately half of marriages end in divorce. And for those who remain married, the daily task of love can be challenging at best and excruciating at worst.
THE MARRIAGE MANIFESTO reveals why our best efforts in marriage so often fail:
Have you ever tried to wash the odor of chlorine from your skin after swimming in a pool? It’s almost impossible to do. The ingredients are soaked into our fibers.
We swim through our lives in a global culture chlorinated by consumerism—the worldview in which everything can be commodified, or assigned a value based upon its usefulness to us. We are encouraged to ignore the intrinsic value of all things and to assign value to everything based upon what it will do for us.
And this worldview can saturate our marriages, as well, without us even realizing it. If we expect our marriages to meet our every need, when the “product” doesn’t deliver, we will fight to “customize” our spouses and ultimately trade them in for a “better model.”
Unfortunately, most approaches to marriage explore its complexities from within the consumer mindset. But if we hope to truly redeem our marriages, we must overthrow everything we have been encouraged to believe about what marriage represents. Our marriages must become a rebellion: a site of anarchy in a world dominated by a focus on self.
We must turn our world upside down.
THE MARRIAGE MANIFESTO is not a self-help book with a list of solutions or three easy steps to a satisfied marriage. It is a call to rebellion. It is the anti-self-help book, challenging us to turn our consumer world on its head and to make marriage the birthplace of a new way of living.
In THE MARRIAGE MANIFESTO, we will explore how sacrifice, commitment, unity, vulnerability, companionship, wonder, and gratitude are not simply attractive aspirations, but the ingredients of revolution.
Are you ready to participate in an insurrection?
