The Intimate Connection: Secrets to a Lifelong Romance

What a great book I feel like it’s help me already.

This is a great book if you’ve been married a little while and want to keep fine tuning your relationship.

Fantastic book my wife and I are reading a section aloud each evening and discussing!!!

Recommend for newly married couples. Good tool.

I wish I had read this book 40 years ago

Good read!

While I still have about 1/4 left to read, I have some mixed feelings about this book. This book does have some very helpful advice and tips for improving a marriage. But some of the book tended towards putting men and women into categories and generalizations. Secrets 7-9 were very hard for me to get through. Secret 7 deals with birth order, secret 8 deals with personality types, and secret 9 deals with life mantras. I struggled with these chapters because I didn’t feel like myself or my husband fit very well into just one particular category. It was very hard for me to relate to those chapters when I didn’t see how those birth orders, personality types, or life mantras applied to each of us.Secrets 1 to 6 and 10 had some very good information and things from which my marriage will benefit. They still had some generalizations and could get a little repetitive but overall, I enjoyed these chapters. I plan to have my husband read some parts of this book so we can both benefit from it and work to improve our marriage.****I received a free copy of this book from Revell. All opinions expressed here are my own.

**Disclosure**This book was sent to me free of hcarge for my honest review from the author. All opinions are my own.About the Book:Creating a happy, lifelong marriage is about much more than physical compatibility. It's about a lifestyle of 24-7 intimacy that bonds couples in a mutually satisfying relationship. In The Intimate Connection, bestselling marriage expert Dr. Kevin Leman explores key secrets to the love life couples crave. He helps readers- understand each other's needs, backgrounds, and personalities (and how those factors influence every marital interaction)- talk so their spouse really listens- turn negative game-playing into positive behaviors that help couples grow closer- create deep, long-lasting intimacy that's divorce-proofWhether couples are new to marriage or have been married a long time, Dr. Leman's time-tested strategies will create the kind of exciting intimacy, mutual respect, and fulfilling communication that will keep husbands and wives in each other's arms for a lifetime.My Review: Marriage is not easy or a piece of cake. So when the subject comes up to my children, I'll tell them the unbearable truth--it is hard work. Probably, the hardest job I have ever had is to have a successful marriage. Dr Leman, knows how hard it can be and longs to be able to show us how to be "good' at it.The trick to this whole thing according to the author is that many times God has a lot of work to do on us before He can mend whats broken or what the marriage stronger. so the author sets out to help us to allow God to do what He needs to do to fix "it". With 13 marriage secrets and a challenge to give it your all. This is a sure fire good start to helping any marriage no matter the reasons. Intimacy in your marriage is just a few pages away from becoming a reality.

This is a very well written and helpful book with lots of humour. One of the best on marriage which I've ever read.