My Heart Got Married And

I Didn't Know It

Unspoken Vows

and Shattered Dreams

 Lora C. Jobe, BSN

 Barbara U. Prescott, PhD

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Alice was a raven-haired beauty who fell in love with easygoing James.  They dated for about eight years, during which time they were monogamous, sexually intimate and eventually lived together.  They finally married in an elegant weekend celebration only to divorce before their second anniversary. 

What happened?

How can a couple date for so long, act married in most ways and make such a terrible mistake? What Alice and James did not know was their hearts married long before their wedding day and that, in fact, was the problem. They are just one of many couples with similar stories that you will meet in My Heart Got Married And I Didn’t Know It.   

Combining thirty years of professional counseling and nursing experience with the common sense advice of mothers, this book introduces a new concept, heart marriage. Heart marriage occurs when a dating couple becomes profoundly bound together without clearly or intentionally articulating the desire or commitment to marry. Once heart married, it is very difficult to break up. Like Alice and James, many heart married couples marry only to recognize that they really needed a divorce all along or, in other cases, their dating relationships may lapse into years of indecision and “feeling stuck” without understanding why.

My Heart Got Married And I Didn’t Know It could help you or someone you know avoid the unintentional marrying of the heart and increase your chances of making life enhancing relationship choices.