Love. For Those Seeking and Those Who Have Found

This book is woven from echoes of the most diverse stories the author heard during confessions and in ordinary “heart-to-heart” conversations. Its topics are dictated by the most frequent questions asked by Father Andrey at numerous public gatherings with audiences of all kinds across the country. Naturally, you won’t find any names or surnames here—every challenge the author speaks about can happen to anyone. And the themes reflected in this book are close to all of us—whether we are lonely or in families, in love or “cooled off.”

Who are we, men and women to each other? How to meet your “other half”? And do such “other halves” really exist? How to understand that this person is yours? What to do if love doesn’t come? And if it weakens and threatens to disappear? How to overcome temptations and seductions, how to keep loved ones from them? Where are the hidden reefs that threaten a happy family—and how to avoid them? Creating a family, preserving a family, living in a family, building relationships with parents and children, overcoming twists and difficulties together—this book is about real human happiness, for romantic young men and women, for mature husbands and wives, and for wise grandmothers and grandfathers. The most valuable experience, collected and set out by one of the most popular Orthodox priests.