When we hear the word “marriage,” we typically assume a close, intimate relationship. We envision a couple who finishes each others sentences, knows how the other likes their eggs cooked, and anticipates the others needs. This may be true in the beginning of the marriage, but too often, marriages lose this closeness over time. The couple becomes disconnected, personal details are forgotten, and the intimacy wanes.

2006 saw the release of Ayaan Hirsi Ali‘s book, Infidel. It told how she was born in Somalia but her mother and her sister and her brother had to flee to Kenya and Saudi Arabia and other countries to avoid the war in civil wars in Somalia. Growing up, she