Tough Talk
This is a handbook about “What boys need to know about relationship abuse.” Just because there is no physical abuse in your relationship, doesn’t mean it is healthy. Guy’s check this out so you can know how to handle yourself in a relationship.
Marriage is the Missing Message
By Scott Phelps
“Teens aren’t encouraged to save sex for marriage but rather to save sex for condoms – the results of which we now see.”
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The End of Middle America:Working class white families are unraveling before our eyes
By Kay Hymowitz
A sobering reminder of the damaging effect that family fragmentation has on children and their futures.
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Quotes worth noticing:
Marriage is giving yourself rather than guarding yourself.
In marriage, a person says, I am giving you all that I have, and all that I am. Marriage is giving yourself as a present to another person. Marriage says: I am entrusting myself to you for the rest of my life. I am committed to you no matter what. I will always be here for you. I am yours, and you are mine. There is no turning back. It is qualitatively different than any other kind of relationship.
Cohabitation is guarding yourself rather than giving yourself.
In cohabitation, a person says, I will give you some of myself but not all of myself. I will hold back part of myself in case things don’t work out. I will give you what I have but not who I am. I’ll give you the package but not what’s inside – You can have everything I have except my commitment to you – everything except my heart. Cohabitation by definition is an “uncommitted” relationship.
~Scott Phelps, Aspire, pg 61
