Are you feeling alone or embarrassed to ask questions as you date and plan to marry? Do you wish your wedding gifts included a How To Manual? Want help to co-create a successful marriage? Let the Marriage Begin! A practical guide to getting married and surviving your first year is your how-to manual to help you understand the phases people do not realize exist in dating, planning the wedding, the honeymoon and the first year. Learn to avoid common pitfalls, handle crises and nurture your love for one another. Top Ten secrets for success include:  Who really catches and who gets caught?  Topics you absolutely must discuss together  Practical tips for planning the wedding  What are your mission, vision, purpose statements for your marriage?  What NOT to tell your family and friends  Who IS this other person?!  Improving communication  Win-win finances  What behavior is non-negotiable?  What the dance in the mirror tells you about yourself

Are you feeling alone or embarrassed to ask questions as you date and plan to marry? Do you wish your wedding gifts included a How To Manual? Want help to co-create a successful marriage? Let the Marriage Begin! A practical guide to getting married and surviving your first year is your how-to manual to help you understand the phases people do not realize exist in dating, planning the wedding, the honeymoon and the first year. Learn to avoid common pitfalls, handle crises and nurture your love for one another. Top Ten secrets for success include: ? Who really catches and who gets caught? ? Topics you absolutely must discuss together ? Practical tips for planning the wedding ? What are your mission, vision, purpose statements for your marriage? ? What NOT to tell your family and friends ? Who IS this other person?! ? Improving communication ? Win-win finances ? What behavior is non-negotiable? ? What the dance in the mirror tells you about yourself

Let the Marriage Begin, the book, has been so popular that psychotherapists have been requesting additional tools to speak to the topic of improving relationships. So, here it is! Let the Marriage Begin the Companion Guide is great for groups, couples or individuals trying to foster positive relationships. This is a must have tool for success in your practice or for use at home.

In the long-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking, million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura now focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity; what the best ways to relate, caretake, and nurture each other are; and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. Dr. Laura asserts that in order to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage, spouses must recognize and appreciate the polarity between the masculine and the feminine. Both husband and wife have power in the relationship, and each needs to realize this in order to ensure personal satisfaction. Using real-life examples from her call-in radio show, and giving real-life solutions, Dr. Laura focuses on the typical mistakes made by men and women in their relationships and shows how marriages can not only survive but thrive.

Are You Planning a Wedding or Preparing for a Marriage? Like most engaged couples, you’re researching venues, trying on dresses and picking out tuxedos or suits, tasting sample dishes, dreaming of honeymoon destinations, and doing everything to ensure your wedding day is the event of a lifetime. But as more seasoned couples will tell you, there’s more to a marriage than a wedding. A lot more. How do you build a marriage that you’ve dreamed of? Dr. Greg Smalley, vice president of marriage at Focus on the Family, and his wife, Erin, along with 14 marriage experts, serve as your marriage guides as you prepare for life beyond the wedding day. From how to handle those everyday conflicts to how to better connect on a spiritual level, they’ll show you how to get ready for a lifetime of commitment. When the flowers have faded and the last morsel of cake has been eaten, you’ll stand with your new spouse, ready to face life together. Equip yourself for a marriage that lasts by learning: How to leave your parents (while still honoring them) and cleave to your spouse Why spiritual intimacy is key to a lasting relationship Why the language of love is communication (and how to build it) How to manage conflict in a healthy, God-honoring way Why sexual intimacy in your marriage will be the gift that keeps on giving Invest in a marriage that will last for decades. Are you ready?

Eric and Leslie Ludy, bestselling authors of When God Writes Your Love Story, show couples in this practical, inspirational book how to transform the whirlwind of the first days of marriage into a sure foundation that will support them for a lifetime. The Ludys teach men and women readers how to use those crucial first 90 days to develop all the necessary habits for a happy, satisfying marriage-habits of kindness, forgiveness, fun, warmth, reconciliation, and patience. Filled with down-to-earth advice and questions for reflection, The First 90 Days of Marriage is destined to become a classic for newlyweds and engaged couples. And even if your marriage is well past those first 90 days, it's never to late to put these principles to work. You'll love the results.

All of us want an enduring marriage, a beautiful marriage we can believe in. That kind of marriage happens through intimacy. Intimacy requires hard work and a guide. Dr. Kim Kimberling is that guide and this book and its tools will show you how communication and intimacy in marriage can be yours. Kimberling offers insights like connecting every day in spite of what’s in the way, learning how to fight in the right ways, stopping the insanity of doing the same thing over and over even when it isn’t working, and finding that the best sex ever is well within the context of Christian marriages. Once these 7 secrets are a part of your marriage, you can stand together and fight anything that would ever try to tear your marriage apart. Whether you have just celebrated your first anniversary or your fiftieth, 7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage by Dr. Kim Kimberling is for you. If you have a good marriage, this book can help you have a great marriage. If you are struggling, Kim Kimberling will help you turn the corner and make your marriage into what you want it to be.