…a message from Sarah Eggerichs
My
favorite part of the Love & Respect Marriage Conference is the opportunity
to meet the amazing men and women who attend. I am especially moved by the men
who come. Why? Because I see men respond in powerful ways to
this message and it always touches my heart.
In fact, I want to subtitle it “The marriage conference men want to
attend!”
This
is what one man wrote us:
"This truly is a conference men
want to attend. What was said at this
event captured what I feel and think as a man.
It also challenged me to understand the heart of my wife. Our marriage has been energized.”
Wives are asking their husbands, “Is this the way you feel?” Men
are saying, “Absolutely.”
Why do men find our marriage conference so “male-friendly”?
We
understand that good willed men serve and die for issues of honor and respect. Not long ago in Aurora, Colorado we saw a man open fire in a
theater, killing many people. What I
found so noble is that 4 boyfriends gave their lives for their girlfriends in
that theater. I’m
deeply moved at the thought that my two sons would die for their sister! But if they were ever in that situation, I
know they would.
But what many of them do lack, for some reason, is motivation. Who
most often urges attendance at a marriage seminar? Who reads the books on marriage? Who tries to get a spouse to change? You got it.
She does.
Most
men know their wives love them, but they often feel we don’t like them – or
respect them, for who they are. Now we know that women need
respect too! There are two sides to
every coin. But if a woman is feeling
disrespected in her marriage, her conclusion is usually, “You don’t love
me! How can you say you love me and
treat me with such disrespect?” She lands on love.
We discovered a Crazy Cycle: without love a wife reacts without
respect, and without respect a husband reacts without love. This starts the
Crazy Cycle spinning!
She is not trying to be disrespectful but she appears that way, and he is not trying to be unloving but he appears that way.
We
want to help you get off that Crazy Cycle.
We will put a voice and vocabulary to
what a husband feels and he will be energized in a way no other marriage
conference energizes him. That's a promise.
And, we will help husbands
understand that the deepest longing in the heart of his wife is for love and
that her mission is to connect with him at that level. If she appears
disrespectful that is not her intent as a good willed woman.
We hope you’ll join us at one of our Live or Video Conferences and
energize your marriage in 2013!
With love and respect,
Sarah
