Love and Respect

Friday: August 29, 2008
Registration: 6:00pm – 6:45pm
Conference Begins: 7:00pm -10:00pm

Saturday: August 30, 2008
Continental Breakfast: 7:45am – 8:45am
Conference Begins: 9:00am – 3:00pm

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We Know Marriages Need Love—But What About Respect?
New Book Unveils a Revolutionary Secret for Husbands and Wives

(Nashville, Tenn., September 2004) – One key word can revolutionize any marriage according to Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, author of the new book Love & Respect.  Eggerichs says happiness and harmony are not achieved by love alone.  Yes, love is vital, especially for the wife, but the author says, a husband’s need for respect is equally important-he is designed to need respect.

For the past 25 years, we have heard much about love, but the divorce rate among evangelicals has continued to rise.  Eggerichs says, “The major problem, which I heard from wives, was ‘He doesn’t love me.’ Wives are made to love, want to love, expect love.  Many husbands fail to deliver.  But as I kept studying Scripture and counseling couples, I finally saw the other half of the equation.  Husbands weren’t saying it much, but what they were thinking was, ‘She doesn’t respect me.’ Husbands are made to be respected, want respect, expect respect.  Many wives fail to deliver.”  As a result, two good-willed people end up on what Eggerichs calls the Crazy Cycle: without love she reacts without respect, without respect he reacts without love—it is a painful, negative cycle that has thousands of couples spinning out of control.

Through extensive biblical and psychological research, the former pastor discovered this often overlooked, if not ignored, truth in Ephesians 5:33. The Apostle Paul writes, “Nevertheless let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see to it that she respect her husband.”  Eggerichs is helping women discover that they can fulfill their deep need to be loved by giving their husband what he most needs—respect.  

Love & Respect is divided into three main sections:

• The Crazy Cycle explains the simple reason why two good-willed people negatively react to each other;
• The Energizing Cycle explains how two people can positively motivate one another by doing one simple thing; and,
•  The Rewarded Cycle unveils the rewards of a godly marriage and explains what a person can do if personal expectations are unmet by a spouse.

Eggerichs left the pastorate to launch the Love and Respect Conferences in 1999, convinced that these truths could restore, strengthen and improve any marriage relationship.  He and Sarah, his wife of 30 years, have shared their message with thousands of couples, and receive confirmations daily that it is working.  In fact, Eggerichs outlined the unique “Love and Respect” message to Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family radio audience last year.  His message garnered Focus on the Family’s highest number of listener responses and became their most requested broadcast of 2003.

Love & Respect contains a revolutionary message that is already helping couples to achieve intimacy like never before.