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12/14/2008
12/12/08
We recently saw the movie, and we both were so glad we did, as we do have some issues to be worked on between us. We have been married going on 15 years, and for several years Alcholism has been a problem between us, he being the alcoholic, me being the non drinking spouse. He is such an awesome man, my grown children love him dearly as do our six grandchildren, all being mine biologically but he is their father/grandfather in every sense of the word. He has brought so much to our lives, but the drinking has really made me bitter, and unsure numerous times if I wanted to continue my marriage. I joined Al-Anon last summer, but it's stilll a struggle at times, as he can go for 4-5 months without a drink and for no reason drink to the point of being drunk,not falling down as he has in the past, but its really changed my feelings towards him. Joining Al-anon really helped me but the past 2 months has been hard as he seems to be having a beer more often, nearly every weekend,not to the point of being drunk but just having it around is very very hard, So I have continued to pray to our wonderful Lord, and Savior. It so happened my best friend told me of the movie a few weeks ago, and we finally saw it last week. What an eye opener--to love unconditionally is purely what our Lord wants us to do but before we saw the movie, I was on the verge of thinking this was our last Christmas together when BAM we saw fireproof-=- my humble thanks to Kirk Cameron and the rest of the crew who did this movie, as we both said per the movies end, that the theatre should've been packed!!! We have to also do our part to get the word out about this wonderful Christian movie--Thank you again, as we now have the Love Dare journal and will buy the book when its out.
Jan
12/12/2008
My husband and I went to see the movie 12/10/08 he took me for my birthday which was 11/10 but we could not get a sitter till a month later. I really enjoyed it but please pray for my husband. He missed the whole point of the movie. He said on the way out of the theater if only the women submits then the marriage will make it. I learned a lot and God showed me to continue loving him unconditionally. Thank you for this movie God Bless. L.
12/11/2008
My fiancé and I have been engaged and are getting married on the 10th of January, but for the past couple of months we began running into severe complications. I found out he was hiding some things from me, and those things hurt me very severely and very deeply….A little more than a month ago I moved from Broken Bow, my home, to Stilwell(3hours away) his home and moved in with his parents until we got married….I am hoping that having me around will end it forever. I have yet to see fireproof. But he and I have been running into different complications since and decided to do the love dare before we get married. It’s painful but we love each other and it's helping us to eliminate those problems before we get married and have to deal with them the hard way. We're hoping this will make our marriage a strong one from the very beginning, when we'll need it most. It's giving us a good foundation to start with and I'm sure when it's over I'll have let go of all the baggage of my past and he'll have learned that relationships thrive on compromise, balance, and understanding, rather than selfishness, rudeness, spitefulness and excuses. We've both got our problems to work through but humans aren't perfect. We appreciate them for their perfections but it's the imperfections we fall in love with. I can honestly say I love him unconditionally, it's been tested and i'm sure it will only get more difficult, but if this book can teach us how to love properly, we can survive it all.
Please pray for Jack and Amber to remember to love when we feel like giving up.
Wish us luck in our married future.
I love you all and for all the couples and people just doing the dare to help them as Christians I wish you the best of luck, may God guide your journey and be with you in all things.
12/10/2008
My husband and I met when we were fifteen years old. We've been together for twenty eight years, married for twenty five of those years. We have four children two boys and two girls and a one grandchild as a result of that. Our marriage in the beginning was a struggle. Jesus Christ needs to be in the center of every relationship. He is what helped my husband and I get through those tough times. When we sought a relationship with Him each passing day as time went on our marriage grew stronger and stronger. Our love we have for each other is blessed through Jesus Christ more and more each day. Those of you struggling in your marriage Keep the faith don't give up or don't give in to the devil, if you have love for your spouse than fight to keep that love in your life always. Remember love coquers all! God will see you through.
My husband and I went to see the movie Fireproof and as when I watched Facing The Giants I cried through the whole movie. I pray that the showing of christian movies in theaters doesn't stop at this one. I really hope there are more movies like this in the making. I recommended this movie to all my friends and family.
Virginia
12/8/2008
My husband and I were married on October 4, 1997. Right after, we went through a rough spell due to surgeries/illnesses for the both of us. He eventually became diagnosed with melanoma cancer and we struggled greatly financially. We almost lost everything. Things got better but somewhere along the way we fell apart. I know I am not perfect and that I have issues, but so does he. We were separated this May through September. He is my best friend. At the time, I lost my only friend.
I was alone one night and I saw the previews for Fireproof. I couldn't wait to go see this movie. I knew that if anything could help bring us back together that this movie would be a big start. We watched the movie opening weekend. I cried. I couldn't think of anything but where we were in our marriage. I wondered where I could get this 40 day book the husband used in the movie. I thought if it worked for him, maybe it will work for me. The people in the movie were us.
The minute I got home I went online to fireprroofmymarriage.com and I found The Love Dare. I received it this past Monday and read the entire book. I kept it out to see if my husband would pick it up and look at it. I was surprised to see that he did and decided to write him a letter. I am challenging him to the 40 day love dare. I am hoping this works. I am intending to start this first thing tomorrow.
So far since we watched the movie I can already tell a difference…
I will keep you guys posted but in the meantime, keep us in your prayers.
12/8/2008
My husband and I went to see this movie for our 10th anniversary. We got married young, I was 16 he was 19. We married to get out of our circumstances at home. We had no love or respect for each other.
We have 3 wonderful children ages 4,6,8. We have put them through hell. We battled alcolholism and drug addiction. About 20 months ago we hit rock bottom. Our marriage turned into violence. October 2007 we started going to church. Although we dedicated our lives to the Lord we still faught and hated each other.
January 2008 I made the commitment to never touch a beer bottle or any other alcohol again. My husband followed. We went to a marriage conference in Febuary to try to make our marriage work. Well it was the most awkward thing we ever did.
Months past and I am extremely happy to say that the Lord has healed our marriage. We love and respect each other more than ever. I have never felt so loved and respected in my life. I came from a horrible backround. Well, we both did.
We renewed our vows December 4th our 10th year anniversary. We cryed and many people say it was beautiful and the presence of the Lord was there.
We saw Fireproof and my husband and I just got done doing what that movie showed. But the situation was MUCH worse.
We are doing the love dare now and next we will do the 6 week study.
THANK YOU FOR THE MOVIE!!!!! I will buy this movie and love dare for my mom and stepdad. and anyone else who needs healing in there marriage.
DO NOT FORGET TO PUT THE LORD FIRST ALWAYS IN EVERYTHING YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!
NOHEMY
12/5/2008
My husband and I are a newly wedded couple. We celebrated our first year of marriage this year, May 13, 2008! We had our baby girl, now 9 months this year on March 4, 2008. My husband and I met at Bible school in 2006 and married last year. We had our baby right away! Praise the L-rd. We feel we have a strong marriage, but we know there's a lot of room for growth! We watched Fireproof tonight and both had tears streaming down our faces. I could feel what he was feeling... let's do the Love Dare, let's Fireproof our marriage! We may be strong Christians and have started off right but the enemy has tried and will try to come in to devour and divide. I'm so thankful for this ministry from the movie that has blessed us and I'm sure many other newly and older married couples. Already I have heard things from the L-rd of what I can do tomorrow to show my love and appreciation for my husband. One other thing when I got pregnant my wedding ring no longer fit my finger so I wore it around my neck. It now sits in the dresser drawer because my fingers are not tiny anymore :(. We thought about buying me a cheap ring and renewing our vows with it... but tonight we both got the confirmation to pray the L-rd will bless us with the finances to pay it off and get it resized so that I can wear the ring we made a convenant with. We're not in the best shape financially... that is a big obstacle too. If you read this would you say a prayer for us? We want our marriage to last until death due us apart. Thank you to all who went transparent and shared your stories. They've blessed me and I'm praying for you. Jesus bless you & your beloved spouse.
-L. Jerdon-
12/2/2008
I want to share this in hope of helping someone else who may be in the same shape i am in. my wife and I met and dated for two years before we married on june 3rd 2006. It was a beautifull wedding. Like alot of second marriages we had baggage that seemed to dominate our ability to trust one another.As a man I have never understood the biblical principles about being the spiritual leader of my home and so I have I have always passed the buck on blame. My wife and I have been separated for 1 year this month,we have been back and forth ,but some how we have not divorced yet.We saw the movie "fireproof" on the opening weekend ,my thought throughout the movie was " oh sure it`s all the mans responsability to change!"I was mad at the movie , "they should show that the wife has a part as well " were my thoughts. I think I have come to see that yes the wife has a part but the man should lead by example ,and I have not done so.Today ,as of now, my wife is not speaking to me as I left her to move our house by herself after she sold it last weekend.I got mad and told her "goodluck do it on your own".I don`t know if I can save my marriage ,but I am here today to start a journy in hopes that I can.please pray for my wife and me ,god bless ,scott
scott
12/1/2008
Well here is my story. My husband and I have been together for 5 years, married 3 and in all that, we have brought our outside baggage into our relationship thus causing an avalanche today. It’s like, we both our so miserable and drained that we don’t know what to do anymore. Our home has been pretty much a war zone and nobody even believes this marriage can work either.
Well, we were separated when we watched the movie” Fire proof”. Funny thing is, we didn’t know much about the movie nor did we think the content would be strong. As we were watching it, all I could do was cry. I wanted so bad to cry harder. I had this groan in me that wanted to come out but it just couldn’t as long as he was near me. The movie depicted our marriage however worse. So each night he was gone, I would put the kids to bed and then pray and cry and well the “www.fireproofyourmarriage.com’ would keep popping up in my mind but I’d push it away. I thought that is was not going to help whatever it was offering. Every time he came around, I was so angry at him. I didn’t want his help, didn’t want to see him or anything. I felt like I just wanted to move on esp. after knowing how he spent his time away from me. Then one week into our separation and after the anger subsided, the website came back in my mind and I thought...Oh what the heck, I’ll see. When I watched the trailer again, I cried. I knew I wanted to try it. I didn’t know what to expect but I’ll try it. I called him at work and asked if he wanted to try with me and he cried as well and asked me to look in my email. I looked and saw a receipt of an order he placed of the Love Dare book and was planning to do it as well. That was enough confirmation for me. So he came home and for 8 days, it was a haven for me.
Sad to say, it has been a roller coaster ride for us both and we still continue to press on with this Love Dare and pray with all my heart that we will find love in one another again. That we will have a desire to hold on and cherish one another. So we shall see. This is my story.
11/30/2008
My husband and I went to see this movie for our 12th wedding anniversary. Like other I feel our marriage is strong and we have two wonderful children to show for it. Although we have discussed issues that came up in the movie I found myself thinking about how often I take the small things for granted and look to quickly at the negative. Like all people we have had problems but I do consider him to be the best thing to ever happen to me but maybe I can learn to appreciate the little things a little better by taking the love dare.
Nikki
11/28/2008
My wife and I have been married for six years. Two years ago we started having alot of bad luck, my mom passed away leaving me feelimg alone in the world even though I have a wonderful woman by my side supporting my every decision. I began pushing her and our children away. I got hurt at work a few months after my mom passed, and thats when everything got worse. For 2 years we lived together, doing the routine things in life, and taking the little things for granted. We were both tempted by other people, but today, November 28th, 2008, we made a decision to call someone for help. We were unsure of who to call so I followed my heart and called a local pastor whom we met when our daughter was doing a paper delivery route and was hit by a car. (She was not injured, just scared.) He took her to his home and called us to come get her. He had been in my thoughts for the last few days, and I knew he was who I needed to call. When I called him, he told me we had been on his mind for a few days as well. I told him about our situation, and he asked if he could speak to both my wife and myself. He asked us to come to his church on sunday, to which we agreed. Then he made a seemingly odd request, he asked us to go see a movie, Fireproof. We were a little confused as to how this would help, but we agreed. We both cried from the begining of the movie to the end of the movie. It was like we had been followed by a video crew. That was our life to a T. After the movie we talked about alot of things that we hadnt been talking about. It renewed our hope that there is a chance for us to make this work. Now our journey together truly begins.
11/25/2008
My husband and I are having difficulty with our marriage at the moment. We've had major ups and downs in the past but I have stayed faithful to God and He has always made a way for us. Our friends took us to see Fireproof and wow...did it "read our mail". My husband and I have talked about a lot of things since then and even this morning he left me an "unexpected" card in my car. He is promising to take one day at a time and see where it leads. I am hoping that he is willing to take the Love Dare. We are about 36 days away from our 20th anniversary. I pray that God's will be done and that he help us to find the love that brought us together in the first place and keep our family of four together as it should be.
11/23/2008
Fireproof finally made it to our local theater. That is an awesome movie.
We have been telling everyone that we know they need to go and see it.
Never saw so many grown men cry. Let the authors know that is the kind of movies this world is in need of. Thank you.
11/20/2008
My husband and I have been married less than a year. After being married for one month, I became pregnant. My pregnancy was a complicated one that has taken a toll on our whole house, including two other teenage boys, and marriage. My baby boy is only 2 months old and has had 2 major surgeries – heart and eye.
One day they discharged my son from the hospital and my husband and I drove to go pick him up 2 hours away and we had to wait a few hours for the nurses to do their shift change so my husband took me out to catch a movie. I wanted to see something funny cause I wanted to laugh, but when we got to the theater we couldn’t believe a Christian movie was showing and since we both liked Facing the Giants, we decided to see Fireproof. During the movie, I was so broken; I felt like I was watching myself on the screen just disrespecting my husband. We both were touched by it. Since then, my husband has been a different man and we realize how much we need each other during this time and everything that we are going through right now. I cant picture my life without him and my baby is getting better, too. I feel like it was all God setting us up to see that movie and he used the baby to do it...thank you Jesus!
11/18/2008
On Nov. 13, my wife and I went to see the movie, Fireproof. We have been married for 2 months and together for four years, on Nov. 13. We had planned on going out to eat for our Anniversary, but during that day something hit me to take her to that movie. We both were off and she was sleeping that afternoon. I was looking to see what movies were playing that night. I came across Fireproof and something in my head said take her to that movie. So we went to the movie. We both cried, her more than me. After that movie we were talking about our first date four years ago. And she realized that we went to the exact same restaurant and also went to a firefighting type of movie. Our first day was to Ladder 49. But she didn't realize that until after. But this movie touched, Fireproof, us more than Ladder 49 did. After the movie i knew that i am with the love of my life and that God has provided me with my best friend for life. I plan on starting the Love Dare to keep my marriage FIREPROOF. Thanks for putting the Movie on and Thank You God for everything that you have done for everyone that has seen this movie.
Bobby
11/17/2008
I am a General Manager of a movie theatre in the Austin, TX area. I had heard a little about this movie, so on Friday night I decided to "pop in" before I left for the night. I really had no intention of staying for the whole feature. However, the longer I watched, the more it drew me in.
I happen to be a very fortunate person, as I have a very happy marriage. I consider my wife to be my best friend and feel as close to her as ever. This is after a little less than 10 years of marriage, and 15 years together. What I saw as I watched this movie, was all the pitfalls of all the marriages around us that have failed. In my opinion, selfishness is the root of failure in all marriages. If people could just realize to put the people in their life, Before themselves, ultimately their lives are happier.
Another thing I took away from this movie was, you can be a good person at work, with friends, in the community, and so on, but if you are not a good spouse and love your spouse, you will never know happiness. My parent's would be a perfect example of this. My father is one of the best people around. He is a Very religious person, does things for other people all the time, was a good father, and is very close to his family. All of them except his wife. As a result my mother is miserable, and my dad just accepts being basically without a wife. I cannot imagine the happiness the both of them would Have had if they had found love with one another. My parents are in their 60's, but I am going to buy this book and give it to my father with the hopes he will do it. Since it is a religious based book, there is hope.
Even though my marriage is strong, I intend to read this book for myself, and do the LoveDare. I would like to thank the author for creating such a tool to help so many people who struggle with the true meaning of love.
11/16/2008
my husband and i have been married for 5 years and have a 2 year old son. this weekend we went and saw fireproof. wow what a great movie i was in tears most of the movie. we have had such a struggle to keep our marriage going. we have been seperated numerous times and this summer we were seperated for the longest we had ever been of 3 months. I seriously thought this is it were done for good but i would not give up. i learned forgiveness and now we are in marriage counseling we both want to renew our marriage vows. We started out in our marriage without having god in the center of it and we know that needs to change if god in not in the center of it than we have no hope. we are going to reccomend this movie to all of our friends to see. and also take the love dare. we never want to be without each other and realized we need each other than we think we do.
11/12/2008
My girlfriend and I where told about this movie in Church. The pastor made a point to stop the service and make sure he let everyone know to go see the movie. We went and I am happy to say that we both cried. We are getting married on the 21st of Feb and this was a good movie to see to help us get ready for our future. I am sure that in the long run we will look back at this movie and use everything in it to help better our marriage. We are young and in love right now with hopes that nothing bad will happen. If there is a chance that something does we have the tools to make it right.
11/11/2008
My Husband and I went to see the movie on our 11th. anniversary. This anniversary was very special to me this year, you see, my husband and I almost didn't make it to our 11th. anniversary. We have had a very rocky marriage for many years, both of us playing our rolls to destroy it. In April I found out my husband was having an affair. I thought under these circustances I would kick him out and rant and rave, but instead I suprisingly dropped to my knees and cried out to God for forgivness for driving my husband to this and to please help me make the changes I needed to make for myself, my marriage and my children. I immediatley sought counciling from our Pastor. My husband at first would not stop seeing this woman, and I had to kick him out. This happened 4 times. Each time he left he never made it for more than 24 hours with out coming back home. Those 4 nights were the darkest, most devestating moments I have ever had. I would cry all night long and feel hopeless desperation and beg God to please somehow save us and our marriage. Then the mircle started happening. My husband began going to church with our family. We began weekly marriage counciling with our pastor and my husband would tell me that he was not going to talk to the other woman again. Then I would find out that he was still lying to me and he was seeing her. This went on until August 27th. Which after 14 times of telling me it was over I kept believing him and forgave him and continued on with the counciling and jumping through hoops to save our marriage. When we reached our 11th. anniversary it was so special to me. We went to see fireproof and I cried and he teared up too. We had a great time together. I felt so blessed that we now were fireproof.
On Monday, November 3rd. I found out that my husband was lying to me for the 15th. time. The affair never ended. Ever....he even got a sales job with her at a company working out of town together. They commuted to work together for 3 days until the Lord intervened and my car broke down. I don't know which is worse, that or the fact that prior to us going to see fireproof on our 11th. anniversary, he went to a payphone and called her first. As I write this, I am at work filling our my divorce papers. Still hoping God can turn this around. My husband has 6 months to prove to me by his actions if we are fireproof. I gave him the love dare book on Saturday night. Please say a prayer for Karl and Kim tonight. It will take a miricle from God to save this marriage.
11/10/2008
Me and my husband saw Fireproof on November 7th. It was a surprise date night for him and I arranged everything, it was a great movie. We both loved it and are telling everyone about it. I will be buying Love Dare so we can get started. We have been married a little over 5mths and together for over 2 yrs. He has a son and I have a daughter. It has been a very difficult relationship, the hardest I have ever have. Alot of issues from the start, lack of communication is his biggest issue. I was debating on leaving many times, whether staying was the best answer, whether it was a healthy choice or not. Through it all I just couldnt leave. I felt there was a reason I was here and being able to deal with it all. Not just anyone could of been able to handle this and I am very strong. I just love him and his son so much and something was preventing me from leaving. Things have gotten better, but there are still some major issues that are being worked on. I know that he loves me because he admits that he needs to be a better husband. We both have issues to work on. I think since things have been so hard we began to be sarcastic to one another, which also became an issue. I hope that things get better because we both have mentioned the D word, and I do not want that. Also, with all the divorces around, and knowing so many getting a divorce it seems like that is the only answer when you have problems. People seem not to work things out anymore. It is so difficult and we are willing to do what it takes to make this work.
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