young adult/teen resources to celebrate marriage

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  • November 15, 2014 at 3:55 pm
    retrofam
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    My 20-year-old is soured on the idea of marriage after being around unhappy older married men and seeing his friends jump from relationship to relationship. Does anyone have books, articles, scriptures, etc. that will help? We are an intact family, who has a good relationship with him. He believes in purity and only dating if you are ready to pursue marriage, but now he is soured on marriage.

    November 17, 2014 at 2:56 pm
    karivaz
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    Sorry to hear this! Looking at people rather than God’s standards certainly has its discouraging effects. If my marriage were the standard, would anyone else get married? Hmm… Nothing’s perfect this side of eternity, and it’s all too easy to get bitter about it.

    For a good introduction–and these books may even help those friends of his–check out the family series by Doug Wilson, especially the following:

    Reforming Marriage

    Her Hand in Marriage

    Fidelity-How to Be a One-Woman Man

    Federal Husband

    And if he has any younger brothers also getting soured on marriage, I suggest Future Men.

    One other book I would suggest is Getting Serious About Getting Married. This is a wake-up call to the deplorable condition of singles left in the lurch by faulty or non-existent teaching from the pulpit about marriage.

    All the best!

    Kari

    November 17, 2014 at 9:13 pm
    retrofam
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    Thanks! I like what you said about God’s standards versus looking at people.

    I will check out those books.

    November 17, 2014 at 9:56 pm
    MissusLeata
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    When we got married, our then pastor’s younger sister would come to Bible Study at our house. When we would talk about being happily married, she said that I was the only married woman she knew that said I was happier married than single. There’s a lot of badmouthing of marriage today, even in conservative churches.  I  think being those happy marriages is the best thing we can do for young people in that situation. Can you get him around lots of couples, young and old, that model a happy, fulfilling marriage?

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