Good, but didn't do it for me.
I enjoyed the aspect of this book which spoke about intimacy on all levels and how you need to foster a good life through embracing intimacy in every fashion, not just sexual. I think that is an important lesson for all couples to learn. However, there were some things I struggled to get beyond, one of which is possibly my own feminist ego as some of what Leman writes came across as decidedly misogynistic. It was a little prescriptive of him to say that a wife needs to satisfy her husband three times a week, otherwise she can expect him to justifiably stray... To say this is a book that is written with specific sections aimed at men, and others at women, and is supposed to explore the differences between the two relating to their take on intimacy, it would have been perhaps better if he had collaborated with a female co-author. Instead we are treated to a slightly too-personal-for-my comfort insight into his own relationship with his wife in which he writes both the male and female perspective - the latter I did not always relate to. My husband's theory is that Leman's perspective represents a generation gap. Maybe so. I don't want to be too down on the book. There is a lot of good in it. If you are coming to this book as a Christian, and a believer that is only permissable within marriage, the skinny on what to expect on your wedding night could be really helpful as Leman tells you how it is and explains the basic positions and what you might expect. Overall, I suppose I would say read it, take from it what you like, and ignore what you don't.
