Joshua Lytle

For 4 years I was a pretty bad husband. I would put my friends, my drinking, my job, just about everything before my wife. I have always known right from wrong, but as far as what it is to be a husband, I was completely clueless. Based up on the role model I had growing up, a husband provides the money by working constantly, and is emotionally and phyiscally distant. Boy was I wrong.

Sadly my marriage is very much on the rocks right now. My wife had finally had enough, I had pushed her to the very brink, quite possibly over. She moved out about a month ago. Shortly before she did though, I had the strangest epiphany, God opened my eyes and showed me just how much I truly loved this amazing woman, and also showed me just how much I had hurt her and what I had put her through. It was at that exact moment that I realized what I had to do. Completely turn my life around. I just didn’t know where to start.

Then I remembered several months back our counselor recommended that I read Point Man. So I got it, downloaded it on my phone, and two days later had finished reading it. My entire outlook on life, marriage, and what it is to be a husband (and God willing a father one day) was completely changed. I now finally knew what my role was, and also saw how pathetically I had failed in that role for so long. I vowed to God that I would never stray from this path that he had set me upon, and that he help me to save my marriage with this incredible woman.

That was a little over a month ago. The old me would promise to change and then no more than a week later would be back to his old ways. Me now though, Ha, not a chance. Thanks to God opening my eyes and my heart, and to Steve Farrar and his work (also read Real Valor, another great), I now am equipped to be the kind of husband that my wife can be proud of, and the kind of man that is after God’s own heart. If you have come to the self realization that you have some serious shortcomings as a husband and you aren’t sure of how to fix it, read this book!!!