I think everyone should see it. It is really the best movie I've seen in a long time. If you're married, going to be married or think you might be married someday, you should go and see Fireproof.
Here's the part where I ruin it.
Caleb is a fireman and his wife Catherine is a PR worker at a hospital. Little by little, they have kind of drifted apart. Their relationship has suffered and now they both are playing the blame game. Neither one is willing to give at all to make the other person happy. Before long, they decide they want to get a divorce. Caleb's dad challenges him to wait 40 days before goes through with the divorce and he gives him the book The Love Dare. Each day challenges Caleb to add one concept to the way he treats his wife. At first, she doesn't buy into it. She's started seeing a doctor at the hospital on the side. She's taken off her wedding ring. Some women at work are telling her that Caleb was probably being nice to her to butter her up so he gets everything in the divorce. He keeps trying and trying to get her to see how much he's changed. He even makes a beautiful candlelight dinner for her and she pretty much spits in his face and tells him, "I do not love you."
Caleb is ready to give up. He meets with his father who tells him that he can't give her what she needs because he doesn't have God in his life. Desperate, Caleb reaches out to God and gets saved. He continues with The Love Dare. Slowly, God starts weeding out things from his life that are ruining his marriage. One of the big things is pornography. He is constantly looking at porn on the computer. The Love Dare for that day challenges him to get rid of anything that is an addiction. So, he takes the computer outside and smashes it to pieces. He gives Catherine red roses and a card that says, "I LOVE YOU MORE".
The thing that really shows her how much he cares for her is that he took his entire savings and used it to purchase a hospital bed and a wheelchair for her mother, who has just had a stroke. He had been saving for a boat for years. When she first learned that someone had done that for her, she thought it was the doctor she'd been seeing. It turns out that he did donate money to the items but it was only $300. Caleb gave the rest of the $24,000 dollars.
In the end, Catherine came to the firestation to tell him that she does love him and she forgives him for all of the things that went wrong in their relationship and she asks him to forgive her. They end up renewing their wedding vows.
I think this movie is incredible. It really made me think about my own marriage and about what I do to serve my husband every day. I know I can do more. And I intend to do more. I know I'm not perfect but God IS perfect. And I'm going to start seeking God every day and asking him to make me a good wife.
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