{"id":841,"date":"2017-12-13T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/wp\/?product=lasting-love-by-chuck-kathie-crismier"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:50:40","slug":"lasting-love-by-chuck-kathie-crismier","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/?product=lasting-love-by-chuck-kathie-crismier","title":{"rendered":"Lasting Love by Chuck and Kathie Crismier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Happily Ever After<\/em> is the undying hope for most couples who proclaim their undying love by sacred vow.\u00a0 But is it a reasonable and attainable hope, or is it merely an illusion rooted in eros and emotion when we declare, \u201cI DO?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statistics of our time reveal a society tragically torn between the sacredness of a holy vow and the sorry state of betrothal and marital bliss.\u00a0 As one-holy matrimony fades in favor of a \u201chook-up\u201d culture defined increasingly by \u201chave it my way\u201d cohabitation, the \u201chopes and dreams of all the years\u201d are betrayed by brokenness.<\/p>\n<p>It is painful to point out the obvious \u2013 that happily ever after is being lost \u2013 indeed sacrificed \u2013 on the now \u201csacred\u201d altar of the \u201cME, Me, me\u201d generation in pursuit of the eternal SELF.\u00a0 Lost to the marital imagination is the hope of Happily Ever After.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;how might such a life-invigorating hope be restored?\u00a0 Is it possible that the simple secrets contained in a marital motto might breathe back into our marriages the hope that once sprang eternal in the breast of the betrothed?<\/p>\n<p>LASTING LOVE may just provide the needed spark.\u00a0 For, as we know, \u201cit only takes a spark to get a fire going.\u201d\u00a0 In this small book, husband and wife will find marriage-transforming nuggets of truth passionately presented by Chuck and Kathie Crismier, whose fifty years of marriage are transparently translated so as to torch the life of every married couple.<\/p>\n<p>A simple motto has guided and protected their marriage over many years, and in LASTING LOVE, they offer its seven secrets to you.\u00a0 They call it OUR MARRIAGE MOTTO.\u00a0 Perhaps it will become yours.<\/p>\n<p>Hardcover, 129 pages (6&#215;9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4>Enduring Secrets for Marital Success<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":842,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[16,19,26,40],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-841","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books-by-chuck","product_cat-browse-by-topics","product_cat-family","product_cat-marriage","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secure.listenz.com\/saveamerica\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}