Miss_Fluffy
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I have been trying to get into this book for quite sometime. Maybe I'm just over-stimulated by TV and video games, but I am finding it so very dry, near impossible to read. It just seems to be saying, over and over again, "Marriage is really, really important"
Has anyone here read it? Are there any chapters that I should perhaps skip to that might tell me something I don't already know?
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heliotropes
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I had the same problem with it, Fluffy, but I think it's because of how it is compiled. It's not really something you sit down and read cover to cover, but might be something you pick up when you're having a rough day and just read one letter. I found the old "Catholic Marriage Manual" much more helpful and succinct for cover to cover reading. It's just more my style to have subject matter more structured.
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Exactly, Helio. It wasn't written by the pope to be a "marriage manual," it was written more like a bunch of encyclical-esque speeches. There's a lot of meat, but you have to really think about what he's saying in order to draw practical conclusions from it. Best digested slowly and treated like "spiritual reading."
I read at it because we bought it for a friend and that didn't pan out (another friend never got around to mailing it) so it ended up becoming part of my own library by default.
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Don't worry, Laura, someone gave us that book as a wedding present and seven years later we still can't through it all.  A book that we found wonderful, and that Fr. Young unequivocally approved of was "Plain Talks on Marriage" by Rev. Fulgence Meyer, OFM. This is a really, really old book, however (published 1927), so I had to hunt it down on amazon or an old book website. It's really worth it though!
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I have never read Dear Newlyweds, but I must enthusiastically second the positive review of Fr. Meyers' Plain Talks on Marriage. It is excellent, to-the-point, and very easy to read.
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TeveritasAequitas
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I was able to read Dear Newlyweds straight through, but I am used to reading "dry" material like that. I would suggest it as a book that you read a few pages of a night as you lie in bed (hopefully next to the person your are "newly-wedded" to  )
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Quote: Originally Posted by TeveritasAequitas I would suggest it as a book that you read a few pages of a night as you lie in bed (hopefully next to the person your are "newly-wedded" to )
if you are looking for easy reading on the subject of marriage I would suggest
Husband and Wife:the joys,sorrows and glories of the married life By Fr. Paul Wickens
also Marriage And The Family By F.J. Sheed and The Absolute Essentials Of The Upbrining Of Children; Briton Catholic Library (touches on marraige as well)
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