Old School Love audiobook

This was such a delight

Chalk full of tweetable truths, Rev Run and Justine Simmon’s Old School Love is the embodiment of #relationshipgoals. “Our deep love for God, our deep love for each other, our deep love for our children, our deep love for our family, our deep love for our friends, our deep love our neighbors, our deep love for love itself – Old School Love.” It’s about the daily discipline of “I Do.” As Justine expresses, “Then you get married…you say ‘I do,’ and then you stop doing – you stop doing all those things that made the person fall deeper and deeper in love with you. You stop wanting to please that person; you stop wanting to make that person happy; you stop wanting to look beautiful for that person; you stop being who you were when you were dating, because now you got the person you so desperately wanted.” As the antidote to apathy, Rev Run writes,“Your smile is what I grind for. You are the main course. Everything else is background music.Being with you is everything. Nothing makes me happier.” “Being in a marriage with your best friend is the epoxy...that holds a relationship together...Either walk the walk or don’t walk down the aisle...Don’t be a show-off, be a show-up...Remove the walls you’ve put up and let the other person build with you.” Rev and Justine go on to define character qualities like success, respect, endurance, courage, heroism. “It takes amazing courage to walk away from...that which depletes your soul...Defeat doesn’t mean defeated.” Endurance is “allowing a stumbling block to become a stepping-stone...Success is not what you have under your roof, but when you have deep in your heart...Respect is like a boomerang, it will always come back to you: give it and you’ll get it...“A mentor is someone who wants you to exceed their greatness.” Heroism is going to bed at night saying these words: “It can be done.” My favorite part was Rev Run’s spiritual epiphany in a hot tub. “I went into the bedroom and sat down on the edge of the bed and started to weep—I just wept. And it was so intense and so powerful because in that moment – in that presidential suite, with all the food, with the best weed, with a Jacuzzi filled to the brim with bubble bath – I had this realization: I don’t just have things – things have me…It was right there in that hotel room that I knew—I knew—I needed God...When you have nothing left but God, you have all you need...One minute the world is your stage, and the next minute you’re at a stage in your life where God is your audience...My mind and my heart are steepled in God.” Amen! That is my prayer as well. Old School Love is filled with timeless truths sure to inspire you long after your twitter fingers tire out!

I thought that the book truly offered sound advice about love in many different aspects. However, I felt likeIt was a bit all over the place. It jumped around and nothing really felt like it followed what was discussed in the previous chapter. Initially, I was excited about reading from the two Perspectives of Mr. and Mrs. Simmons; however, after a while it began to feel rehearsed. Their words were just mirroring each other’s with no real differences. Maybe the book didn’t need to have separate chapters written by Mr. and Mrs. Simmons. I was expecting something slightly different but I was appreciative for the words of wisdom nonetheless.

I love this book with my whole heart!At age 26, looking for love, this book has come to me at just the right time!I'm so proud to have had these two as role models growing up! It's amazing being able to see a Black successful family. They've stayed Genuinely themselves and help themselves with so much Grace!I wish to show these values to my family!

Good. Not life changing, but good. I’d give this to teens and people in their 20’s to show them what to look for in partners and how to have a good foundation in your relationship. Good for marriage or dating.

A must read especially for those of us who wonder how to make it work in a swipe right, swipe left microwave love culture.

Great advice and great read!

be wonderful if every couple had the love that Run and Justine have for each other

Just a great book written by two people that are very much in love. Each one, Joseph and Justine give their take on how to make a loving relationship work.

Basically Rev Run and Justine just spoken on how their relationship and family works. I like the takeaways and the scriptures that was in their book.