Loving Him Well: Practical Advice on Influencing Your Husband

Gary Thomas

Feb 2018 · Sold by Zondervan

About this ebook

The bestselling author of Sacred Marriage offers hope to women who want to strengthen and transform their marriages into the profoundly deep relationships God intended.

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 wants you to have a relationally healthy, emotionally engaged, and spiritually mature husband.

In Loving Him Well--previously titled Sacred Influence--Gary Thomas builds on concepts from his bestselling 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.

With new stories and fresh illustrations to help wives understand, love, and influence their husbands, Loving Him Well offers encouragement, biblically based support, and practical applications for the transformation of your marriage, drawing you and your husband closer together, the way God intended.

Perfect for . . .

• Women in good marriages who want a great marriage
• Women who feel invisible or marginalized in their marriage
• Engaged or newly married women who want to start investing in their marriage from the start

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.

Loving Him Well includes study questions at the end of each chapter and is also available in Spanish, Amándolo bien.

Ratings and reviews

I wish this book was available 13 years ago when I got married. I think it would of saved me alot of heartache and my marriage alot of pain. I'm thankful for the things I've learnt now and plan to use that going forward. This book was different from other marriage books because it gave personal struggles and also personal victories. I'm thankful for the practical advice and very thankful on the insight on how men think and act. I now understand my husband's behavior so much better. Thank you Gary

Reading this book was something I really needed, I'm going through a lot of disappointment and rejection in my marriage and there are times I'm thinking maybe I made a mistake by marrying my husband, but this book made me realise that I've been going about it the wrong way God has to be the first in my life, things that I'm fighting to change can not even bother me again when I'm OK in my relationship with God. Great book

This is a MUST READ for every wife and woman! It will make you think and act differently about your spouse .. It will also encourage you to be more reliant on God ..

About the author

Gary Thomas's writing and speaking draw people closer to Christ and closer to others. He is the author of twenty books that together have sold more than two million copies and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. These books include Sacred Marriage, Cherish, Married Sex, and the Gold Medallion-award winning Authentic Faith. Gary holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Western Washington University, a master's degree in systematic theology from Regent College (Vancouver, BC), and an honorary doctor of divinity degree from Western Seminary (Portland, OR). He serves as a teaching pastor at Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.