REAL LOVE IS VULNERABLE, NOT WEAK

Real Love Is Vulnerable, Not Weak

There is a kind of love our culture calls strong - the love that never flinches, never needs, never bends when it's rejected. We call it maturity. We call it having boundaries. But what if that kind of love was never love at all?

Real Love Is Vulnerable, Not Weak makes one claim and builds everything on top of it: love that cannot be hurt was never risked in the first place - and a love that cannot be risked was never real.

Drawing on the teaching of Rabbi Manis Friedman, the tears of Jesus over Jerusalem, the cross, and the design of marriage itself, this book dismantles the armor we've mistaken for strength and replaces it with something far more costly - and far more real. You'll learn:

• Why indifference, not hate, is the true opposite of love
• The quiet difference between loving a person and loving the idea of being in love
• Why there is no love without exposure - and why that's not a flaw in love's design, it is the design
• How husbands and wives carry different, equally real forms of vulnerability - like two planets under the same sun
• Why "50/50" marriages quietly become mergers instead of one flesh, and how to close the ledger for good
• How to find peace in a disagreement without waiting for the other person to agree first