Love That Lasts 目录

A Note to Our Readers

A Few Things to Remember

01: Where Is the Love? (The Black Eyed Peas)

02: What Makes You Beautiful (One Direction)

03: Slow Dancing in a Burning Room (John Mayer)

04: Riding Solo (Jason Derulo)

05: Fake Love (Drake)

06: Lucky (Jason Mraz)

07: Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen)

08: Bleeding Love (Leona Lewis)

09: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor Swift)

10: When I’m 64 (The Beatles)

11: At Last (Etta James)

12: Stay with You (John Legend)

13: All of Me (John Legend)

14: Let’s Get It On (Marvin Gaye)

15: Let’s Talk About Sex (Salt-N-Pepa)

16: Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars)

17: Unpack Your Heart (Phillip Phillips)

Now What?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Additional Resources

About the Authors

Love That Lasts 精彩文摘

We are lovesick and love-diseased. Our views of romance, sexuality, dating, and marriage are killing us. We’ve been infected for years and haven’t even realized it. It almost killed me in high school and stayed with me in college, like shrapnel in my soul that I’m still plucking out and finding healing for. Nothing has caused me more pain, grief, and hurt than previous relationships and my pursuit of love.

Isn’t that true for most of us? We get to our midtwenties or midthirties and feel like we should be beginning our adult lives, yet it feels more like the end. We are tired. We are hurt. We are exhausted. And we don’t want to do it anymore. We are left to pick up the pieces of our adolescence, and we now look back with enough perspective to realize just how detrimental our decisions have been.

How did we get here? Why are so many of us entering adult life, our marriages, jobs, and new families hanging on by a thread rather than starting our journey with vibrancy and life and fullness?

Maybe it has something to do with our bad definition of love.