Love That Lasts

Love can begin with a spark. Love that lasts is built one choice at a time.

Every relationship starts with excitement. Few stay strong without intention. In Love That Lasts, Julius Kehinde, PhD, offers a warm, practical guide for singles getting ready for love, new couples building a foundation, and long-term partners who want to keep their flame alive.

This fourth book in the Garden of Love series is rooted in Christian values and welcoming to readers of every background. It combines honest stories with clear principles and hands-on exercises to help you:

• Love beyond feelings: choose your partner when life is hard, not only when it is easy

• Give respect freely: protect each other's dignity, especially in front of others

• Resolve conflict without destruction: no yelling, contempt, character attacks, or threats to leave

• Apologize, forgive, and truly let go: stop bringing up what has already been made right

• Live within your means: break free from credit card debt, show-off spending, and housing you cannot afford

• Set healthy digital boundaries: phones, social media, former partners, and AI chatbots

• Date with wisdom: spot green flags and red flags, and choose character over charm

• Keep long-term love alive: rebuild friendship, share the load at home, and grow together through every season

Inside you'll also find a complete toolkit:

• A 30-Day Love That Lasts Challenge

• Weekly couple check-ins

• Worksheets for conflict repair and money conversations

• A digital boundaries agreement

• A readiness reflection for singles

• 100 questions for deeper connection and 52 date ideas

• A couple's covenant you can sign together

Each chapter includes real-life scenarios, Root Work exercises, guidance for singles, optional faith reflections, and discussion questions. That makes the book ideal for couples reading together, premarital classes, small groups, and church ministries.

Whether you're single, dating, engaged, newly married, or decades into your relationship, Love That Lasts will help you build a love marked by trust, peace, and joy.
Start building love that lasts today.