Josh Starnes’s Reviews > How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told > Status Update

“Nobody told me fighting for my marriage would be less a fight than a kneeling in humiliation at the feet of my enemy.”

“Maybe God has to break all your favorite bones just to loosen you up enough to ask for help.”

“My career had bought us a home, zeroed out our college debt, paid off the car, and granted us more financial security than either of our families had ever known, but the years of work compelled an emotional abandonment of the woman I’d vowed to love and honor. It didn’t matter that I was now a little less blind and much more present. It was too little too late.”

Loving your wife > financial provision.

“Something had ruptured, come unmoored deep inside me, the demon of pride let loose and made visible…It would take years to understand this, but the understanding began in that church hallway, that a good person is a temporary and imaginary creature, as make-believe as unicorns and fire-breathing cows, because the best of us are often the worst, full of proud and viperous snakes, believing ourselves gods.”