Going All the Way: Preparing for a Marriage That Goes the Distance Book

I received this book as a wedding present two years ago and just now got around to reading it. Although Groeschel has some good advice(towards the end), I was so turned off by some of what he said in the beginning of the book that I didn't really care what he had to say. Personally, I found phrases like "If you want to be in a happy, blessed marriage, then only marry a Christian" more than a little offensive; I think it's pretty presumptuous of the author to assume that what he feels his idea of what God wants for everybody is set in stone. Groeschel does seem at times to try and present his advice with a good sense of humor; occasionally, I would find myself chuckling a bit while at other times, I felt that his attempts fell a little flat. Overall, I feel as though the author presented marriage as something more like a business arrangement than the union of two people that love each other for who they are, and that any good advice that was included is more or less common sense.