For All Eternity: Practical Tools for Strengthening Your Marriage Paperback – January 3, 2014

The product was shipped on time, packaged well, and was as described online. But the actual book itself was a bit of a let-down honestly. We are a young LDS couple in a happy marriage, but we were looking for more tools to continue to strengthen our marriage together. We honestly couldn't even make it through this book.Pros:1. Does contain nuggets of helpful information. We did enjoy the idea of "content communication", and taking responsibility to express ourselves kindly and respectfully, in a way that we cannot be misunderstood.Cons:1. The tone of the book can be somewhat condescending, especially when talking about the differences between men and women. My husband and I fully embrace the concept of differences between men and women, but sometimes this book painted him to be a bumbling primate completely controlled by his primal instincts. The book seemed to be aimed at women to understand their mysterious, primal husbands, instead of a book aimed at couples to better understand and communicate together. I've studied child and human development and the differences between males and females, and their thinking patterns are different and that's important! But the way it's presented honestly made my husband feel quite insulted.2. The author shares stories that are honestly, completely relatable to us as a young couple in 2018. He share a story of himself telling his young child that he should go find another family and putting him outside in the snow, for not coming when called to family prayer. Call us millennials or whatever, but we believe in positive parenting, the growth mindset, unconditional love, and the "Whole Brain" approach...and this was just too much for us to really relate to. Thank goodness this wasn't a parenting book!He also shares a story of paying a handyman to complete a list of requests that his wife had given him for various things around the house, and then spent the whole day writing, and lied about it to his wife for weeks. I respect his ability to acknowledge his previous shortcomings, but perhaps it's a generational difference, because we found these stories to be a little too much, and they did not drive home the points because we were so put off by them. A handyman would cost at least $25/hour, and the idea of paying $100+ for a stranger to complete things around your house is totally foreign to us, when many of our married peers have to live with family due to not being able to afford school and rent. We could not relate to these stories at all, and it really made the whole book quite ridiculous to us.Perhaps we weren't the target audience for this book, and there may be too many generational differences for us to really relate to these stories. We got about halfway through and honestly just had no desire to finish it. I was looking forward to a Gottman style book from an LDS perspective, but I think we will just go read the original.

My husband and I received this as a wedding present. Oh my goodness gracious me, it is a wonderful book. I would call the topic 'communication (with emphasis of examples being couples, but really applying to anyone and everyone)'. It is *fun* to read, especially near the beginning; it has very short chapters making it conducive to reading together even with busy schedules; and even if you don't wish to actually implement any of the suggestions it makes in your life, it still provides value by bringing some things to mind that might simply never have occurred to you, or that you may not think about very much, which may in and of themselves end up being helpful just by having that exposure.It gets slightly preachy towards the end, but not in an obnoxious way - that is, those with varying or anti- religious beliefs may find some of the advice heavy-handed towards the end but it's not being evangelical at you and trying to get you to believe or convert or something. It's just kind of there among the useful topics of discussion.Anyway I absolutely love this book and I promptly got copies for 6 of my relatives and gave it to them all - that is how awesome I thought it was.

This is primarily an LDS perspective on marriage but anyone can benefit by it. His 'Magnificent Seven' is wonderful advice and the anecdotes help illustrate the principles. This man studied under Doctor John Gottman at University of Washington (I believe) and the teaching shows through, i.e. it is pertinent, helpful, practical, and based on some of the best information around.

These principles are amazing and easy to implement and they don't only sound good in theory, they really work. I tell my friends that i can 100% guarantee that this book will improve some aspect of their marriage, or more! I feel like I'm in a private counseling session with Dr. Lund. It doesn't address every problem in the world, but it sure does address some of the most basic issues that cause marriage problems. LOVE LOVE LOVE it, everyone should buy it.

What a great book! I also own the audio CD version of this. Love it. Very useful, practical advice for how to communicate and give love to your spouse and family. The best explanation of forgiveness and trust I've ever heard. This book really resonated with my soul. Great gift for newlyweds too.

This has been a wonderful read and I would recommend this to anyone wanted to improve any relationship.

Very good. Humorous and direct.love it.

This book is wonderful! Great advice and super funny. I recommend it to all my married friends.