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2/3/2009
Hello there everyone!! I have just watched the movie as well and it hit several places in my life. Most of all it whare it hurts the most, God!! I think that we all have not seen what has been put in front of us to start with when it comes to marriage. I know that i was blinded by selfishness when I got married. And that led me away from the Lord. But after watching the movie it has opened my eyes to alot of things I have done in my marriage. Sitting back and watching this movie it made me realize that we take each other for granted and not know it. That is how God must feel about us each and everyday. But I have learned from this movie, and now am going to use it everyday to make life better.
2/3/2009
My wife and I just finished watching Fireproof. Wow It was a replay of our last 18 months. I am a firefighter, we have been married 24 years, I was that firefighter in the movie, self centered, i took my wife for granted, blamed her for all the things wrong. I felt like there was nothing let for us, we talked about divorce a few times. Then we got to rock bottom. From there we just dropped all the guards and opened our hearts and feelings up to one another. What we found was what the movie showed so well......We had also loved one another but had forgotten how to love one another. We were not investing in each other, we were not looking for those little ways to say I love you.........what we have today is a stronger and deeper love for one another then we ever had before........We were amazed to watch this movie replay our lives and both wondered how this could have been so closely written to match our situation.......We believe the movie was to show us how God has blessed us even though we never asked him for the help, He still loved us enough to show us the way.........thank you for this message.......God Bless and Be Safe
2/3/2009
I have started the love dare several months ago, but my husband did not, we currently are not having problems, but we wwanted to take the dare to be closer to eachother, and god, for the week i did do the dare, i could really tell the difference in how i acted twords him, we just watched the movie last night, and it's true, and i believe he now will do the dare with me....
ERICA
2/3/2009
Hi, I'm 19 years old and I fell pregnant at the age of 15. I got married at 16 and a month later my son and I had to move back in with my parents. It took me a year to finally get a divorce. Today my son is 4 years old and I have been through alot. I thank God for everything he has done for me. I know now that divorce was not the answer, but God has forgiven me and I have moved on.
2/2/2009
HELLO I TOO JUST WATCH THIS MOVIE AND ITS RIGHT FROM THE BEGING TO THE MIDDLE I JUST WISH A HAD THE END. ITS SAD THAT A WOMEN HAS TO PUT HER ANGER AND SELF STEAM DOWN TO GET TO A MAN S LEVEL AND SHOW HIM HO TO FIX THE RELATION SHIP BECAUSE DONT FORGET WHO WROTE THE BOOK IN THE STORY. I AM GLAD THAT FOR HER IT WORK I WATCHED W M HUSBAND HE SAID HE UNDERSTOD BUT HE WENT TO SLEEP MY MARRIAGE IS DONE UNLESS SOME ONE BESIDES ME TALKS TO HIM.HELP
VERONICA
2/2/2009
Hello all,
My wife and I have been married for 10 months. We have a great marriage but at 10 months who doesn't. My parents invited us to watch the movie and I was hesitant. The movie was wonderful! It opened my eyes to how we can forget to treat our spouse with love and respect. I have ordered the Love dare for both me and my wife. I believe it will help secure our marriage and serve as a guide and reminder of how to love one another. I am a christian trying to be all I can be for God. This movie was inspirational to my journey as husband and a christian. Good luck to all and God Bless!
David DeWolf
David
2/2/2009
My fiance and I watched this movie yesterday and it truly was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. We both agreed that it reminded us alot of our own lives. We've had our share of up and downs with 3 kids later, and we've almost ended our relationship 100 times and I admit just like the character of the woman in the movie, I too talked to someone who made me feel pretty and important and when my fiance found out it broke his heart. We decided to really give it our all and we are still together. I'm so glad I watched it with him because it brought tears to his eyes and he told me at the end of the movie that he's sorry for anything he's ever told me that has hurt me which he knows he's done quite a bit but I've trusted in the Lord to lead me in the right direction and I think good things are coming my way because I believe in him and I let him into my life. I really want to see Facing the Giants now which I'm going to go rent.
2/2/2009
Hello, I joined today and hopefully my husband will join me in this journey. We've been married over 19 yrs and we are both active duty military. We have had our ups and downs over the years and currently we are going through another low. My sister saw Foreproof in her church and they are working through the 40 day love dare. She encouraged me to check it out...glad I did. The movie spoke right to our current state in our relationship. I had an affair early on in our marriage, asked God back into my life and have tried to get back on track. My husband recently had an affair and is having a hard time recovering. I want us to get back on track and work on forgiveness but it takes 2 forgiving hearts to make it. We started couple counseling but now he is deployed for a period of time...maybe good time for healing Lord help us on this path to repairing our marriage.
2/2/2009
I just finished watching the movie. I have been fighting myself to not get i divorce for a year now. My husband has not watched the movie and I would like him to. I have only been married 2 yrs but they have been the hardest years of my life. I grew up in a christian home and I know divorce is not the answer. I am going to take the challenge and pray for God to intervene in my marriage. Keep me in your prayers. I have 2 children and 1 more on the way and I want to fix my marriage. I love my husband but sometimes it is so hard to do and say the right things. Thank you for this movie hopefully I can learn to be the Godly wife that I need to be.
Starlette
2/2/2009
I wish I had seen this movie a few years ago when my marriage was in trouble. Watching the movie mad me cry. If I had seen this movie a few years ago maybe I could have saved my marriage. After 20 years of marriage me and my husband ended up in divorce. I have survived but this movied showed me somethings I needed to know and maybe if there is a marriage in my future I can make it work. I still love my exhusband, and hope one day God will put us back together.
2/2/2009
Well...I just watched the movie..with my kids, I wanted them to see what it is like to NOT have a god man....My little girl said "but mom..thats the way daddy treats you..he yells at you like that..and does not help you." I told her your right, but that I knew that the lord would hold us together...and that is why mommy was working so hard not to leave her daddy. SHe was a little in aww but she got the picture..
I,v got to tell ya it is HARD to think of the right words to tell my husband of 8 years to watch this movie...you see we took a ""break"" about two years ago.. (his idea) in that time I found God and he was all I wanted..My husband found a woman and soon found out that she was not what he wanted.... He came back to me.... and he let Christ find him as well and he became that "god man" I wanted.
BUT here we are again...NO respect, help, love, trust......it gets old being the only one that trys....TRUST ME I KNOW i'v been trying for a year now and NOTHING...
BUT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I KNOW THAT GOD HAD and HAS A PLAN!! so to you all be brave...hang in there and pray for each other...NEVER FORGET that GODS TIME is the only RIGHT TIME.
ALL MY LOVE TO YOU!!
2/2/2009
I heard about the movie yesterday in church. When I got out of church I went to buy the movie. I loved it, so did my daughter, for me it's very inspirational, because the only reason I am still married after 26.5 years is because I promised God almighty to stay in my marraige until death do I part. So that journal would really be helpful for me.
2/2/2009
Well, I watched the movie over the weekend and was totally blessed. I went and bought the love dare book. I have asked my husband to watch it with me and he said he would tonight, I pray that God will speak to him as he did me. I am praying that Satan will keep him from getting "bored or falling asleep". I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow!
God bless.
2/2/2009
I watched Fireproof about a week ago, it was one of the most eye opening experiences I ever had. It really hit home for me because I am a firefighter and my wife used to work days. at the beginning it really seemed like someone filmed our lives and then put other people as our characters. Our fights however were a lot more graphic. We have been in bad arguements where we both are calling each other terrible names. We have threatened each other with divorce. A couple of times I have had to go somewhere else for the night. A lot of the firehouse guys have told me I am mean to her, but I never seemed to care until I saw the movie and a guy said that was us. It hurt! I am a christian, but I have a lot of things I still need to get through with God. I immediately ordered this book after watching the movie. I am only on day two, but I will press on. Like the Bible say in Philippians 3:13-14 "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Please pray we make it through this.
2/2/2009
Hello,
Today I have just watched the movie. Not what I was expecting. it was more. It made me think about my life with my wife. I love her to death and I think I don't give her a chance and I don't help enough around the house. Saturday we found out that she is pregnant. I think I need to start being a responsible man and help out and make her feel loved.
I too am a fire fighter in Canada, and I have always felt that what I do is going to get me to where I want to go in my life. I have to start loving God and my wife also my life more. I hope this makes me a stronger christian and husband and when it happens father.
Mike Smith
OFS 5324
Mike
2/2/2009
Hello everyone
I watched the movie last night and can't stop thinking about how wonderful it was. My husband did not watch it with me but I did go to him after and tell him that no matter what we should stick together and work out our problems through God. We have based our relationship on God but when problems accur he always seems to make reasons for his mood or when he hollars and screams he comes later and says sorry but it is to much sometimes. I always pray for strength and courage but I can't feel that I am working alone. I won't leave because I love him so much. He has anger issues and I have learned to let him cool when he gets that way. I need to do the 40 day love dare because maybe I am the problem and I am only seeing what he is doing. We have to admit to our own mistakes before we can point out someone elses. Over the years the temper I had calmed because I figured it was a waste of time to argue when you might say something you can't take back.
2/2/2009
My husband and I are both active duty army....we have both cheated on each other....I cheated before marriage and him after we got married. We both deployed and had the roughest time. I asked for a divorce then he did. We somehow managed to not get one and we tried to make it work......then divorce came up again recently. We have lost all trust for each other and faith that this will work. He deploys again in a few months without me and I have been so worried that he will ask for a divorce before he leaves.....but I got this movie the other day and just watched it. I cried of course at the things that mirrored me and our relationship and also because I know God wants us to stay together, he kept us safe in Iraq and he didnt do it for no reason.......I am committed now to making this work, no matter what. I am going to be doing the 40 day challenge and I pray with all my heart that God can make this work for life......I need him and I know he needs me.....can this really happen? I pray it can!!
2/2/2009
I watched the movie alone last night and was so taken back by the message it delivered. My husband and i have been married for 5 years, (Most of them by the skin on our teeth) or by the mercy of god himself. After watching the movie and sleeping on what i had just witnessed, my thoughts began to change.. i told my husband about the movie and had to basically bribe him into watching it. I was amazed at how carefully he payed attention to every scene, every word. By the end of the movie, he was not only crying harder than I was but asked me to go to our local christian book store and purchase the love dare for him. God creates miracles, please ladies and gents don't ever give up on someone you can't go a day without thinking about. Love is a precious gift from god, we must cherish it. We did purchase 2 copies of the love dare and will be starting day 1 tomorrow. I would say wish us luck, but who needs luck when you have FAITH!!!!
2/1/2009
I have been married to my husband for 10 yrs. I have always thought we are so blessed and that we have a great marriage. That all changed 3 weeks ago when he informed me he was having an affair. That he loves me but is "NOT IN LOVE WITH ME". I took the news very badly. It is a struggle. I want to save my marriage. I love him so much. I watched the movie today and cried. I want to take the dare. I know God is with me and hates divorce. I will not let this kill our marriage. He doesn't know what he wants. He has said the affair is over, but "SHE" is not going aways easy. I pray everyday God will remove her from our lives. She calls me and emails me to tell me all the things my husband hates about me. It is funny because he got mad and said he doesn't want "HER" to disrespect me, I thought that was odd, since an affair is just that. I pray he will see that I'm forgiving and doing everything that God would have me do as a christian. I pray God will move him to see what we can have. We have 3 children, 10, 7, 5. I do not wnt them to have to deal with the pain of our marriage. I want them to see and love that we are strong and that God is the ceter of our lives. I loved the movie, now I just must pray that my husband will watch it ( it is going to take a lot of prayer for that) I know we can heal if we put God first again. Thank you for the movie, it has given me hope and faith again!
2/1/2009
My husband and I have been married for almost seven years, and a couple for over a decade. We don't live close to family and often it is hard to handle the hard times that have come our way. When I found out my husband was looking at pornography, it was by accident, and I was devastated. He had been doing it for years and I was just too blind to see it. I kept asking myself why he needed to look at those other women and if it was something that I did wrong. We are fighting an ongoing battle with this issue as he works with computers daily for his employment. I was feeling overwhelmed and ready to give up when we heard about 'Fireproof'. We were a little hesitant since we didn't know very much about it. After watching the whole movie on my own, I knew it was something that my husband needed to see, so I suggested that we watch it again together. By the end of the movie, we were both in tears and neither of us really had words for how we felt. I am so grateful for a movie that talks about loving the Lord and also the dangers of the addictions to a marriage. The Love Dare feels right and true as a way of renewing true love between two people. I feel uplifted and ready to start anew with our efforts to grow in love together and prevent our marriage from falling by the wayside. Our son will be fifteen months old soon, and I hope he never has to see his parents fight the way we have been going at it lately. Thanks to this wonderful book and movie, we may achieve that goal after all.
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