This handsome new gift edition of Gary Chapman's The 5 Love Languages features gilded page edges, 2-color interior pages with enhanced design features, a ribbon and presentation page. It makes the perfect gift for engagements, weddings, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, and other special occasions. Includes an updated version of The 5 Love Languages personal profile.
The bestseller that revolutionized the way experts understand, repair, and strengthen marriages! Based on his own study of couples over many years, Dr. Gottman reveals the habits that can make---or break---a relationship. Learn to resolve conflicts; create new common ground; achieve greater levels of intimacy; and handle issues surrounding sex, money, work, family, and more. 295 pages, softcover from Harmony.
How can we be happily married to one person for the whole of our lives?
How do we resolve conflict?
How can we discover and rediscover sexual intimacy?
Full of practical advice, The Marriage Book is easy to read and is designed to prepare, build, and even mend marriages.
Are you and your spouse struggling to keep your marriage alive? You'll welcome Pastor Keller's wise insights about love and commitment. Drawing from his sermons, he and his wife frankly discuss difficulties couples experience and show how God's Word can provide a blueprint for a healthy, loving lifelong relationship. Ideal for couples, pastors, and marriage counselors.
"Am I the person my future spouse is looking for?" "Are the Bible's teachings about women relevant today?" "If sex is only physical, why is the pain of sexual sin so deep?" Offering straight-talking answers to tough questions, Stanley helps men and women avoid relational self-sabotage and prepare to say "I do" - and mean it.
In Question of the Day for Couples, Dan and Lana Taylor offer a three-year question-a-day journal for couples on a wide array of topics and themes. While you will discover how you're changing and growing through the years, you'll bring your relationships closer together and closer to God. Whether you've been together for 35 years or 35 minutes, you'll enjoy creating a fun keepsake with these easy and thoughtful questions.
"52 Uncommon Dates is more than a book. . . it’s an experience! Each date will set the scene for you and walk you through making it happen. Learn how to practically speak each other’s love language, incorporate prayer in ways that are natural and relevant to real life, and finish strong with questions that help keep conversation alive. Ignite playful connections in ways that deepen the relational, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your relationship, one date at a time.
One of today's most trusted resources for engaged and newlywed couples - now expanded and updated! Relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott offer time-tested principles to help couples debunk the myths of marriage, establish lines of communication, fight a good fight, master money management, and become true "soul mates." Includes a new SYMBIS Assessment. Hardcover.
With a divorce rate that hovers around 50 percent, don't let yourself become a statistic. In Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married, Gary Chapman teaches you and your future spouse how to work together as an intimate team! He shares with engaged couples practical tips he wishes he knew before he got married. Discussion centers around love, romance, conflict resolution, forgiveness, and sexual fulfillment. Included are insightful questions, suggestions, and exercises. Paperback.
Tying the Knot offers soon-to-be-married couples a practical vision of Christ-centered marriage that is realistic, hopeful, and actionable. This nine-session study guides couples through issues like conflict, expectations, communication, finances, and intimacy, showing how each can be successfully resolved with Christ at the center of the marriage.
Knowing the stresses and needs of a couple in their season of engagement, Green has helpfully designed the study to require a manageable (and healthy) 60 minutes of at-home work per session, with questions and exercises to build communication and intimacy at the end of each chapter. Tying the Knot also includes an appendix for mentors, making it easy for a married couple, lay leader, or counselor to lead an engaged couple through the book.
Are you ready to walk down the aisle? Deciding who you are going to spend the rest of your life with is a huge decision. Be sure to get to know your partner before you take the big plunge. In 101 Questions to Ask Before You Get Engaged, couples counselor Norm Wright steers you through a series of questions concerning spirituality, finances, family of origin, past relationships, and annoying habits. A dynamic book for anyone seeking God's guidance in finding a lifetime companion that will last a lifetime.
She's met "the one" and set the date - now she needs your help to plan the big event! The Everything Mother of the Bride Book, 4th Edition is completely updated and revised with the latest information you need to get your daughter down the aisle in style. Wedding planner Katie Martin explains everything you'll need to know, including:
Complete with new sections on social media etiquette, this practical guide covers everything you'll need to make sure your daughter has the perfect - and stress-free - day of her dreams.
Easy Wedding Planning Plus contains everything you need to plan the wedding of your dreams! Stay organized and on top of all your wedding plans with our comprehensive wedding planning timeline, budget analysis, checklist of things to do, plus in-depth descriptions, things to consider, and tips for saving money at every stage of the wedding planning process. Keep track of important information with helpful forms, worksheets, comparison charts and more. Spiral Bound.
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They're at the forefront of today's Christian counseling movement, and now Drs. Cloud and Townsend help guide couples. Recommending boundaries even in marriage, they show how respecting a spouse's personal "territory" actually strengthens a relationship as well as how to safeguard marriage from intruders such as idols, affairs, and well-meaning parents. A Focus on the Family Recommendation.
Sacred Marriage doesn't just offer techniques to make a marriage happier. It does contain practical tools, but what married Christians most need is help in becoming holier husbands and wives. Sacred Marriage offers that help with insights from Scripture, church history, time tested wisdom from Christian classics, and examples from today's marriages. Revised Edition.
In The Smart Stepfamily, leading expert Ron L. Deal reveals the seven fundamental steps to blended family success and provides practical, realistic solutions to the issues you face as a stepfamily. Whether married or soon-to-be married, you'll discover how to communicate effectively and solve the everyday puzzles of stepchildren relationships. This revised and expanded edition has updated research and two new chapters with more real-world advice on stepsibling relationships and later-life stepfamilies.
Money issues run much deeper than budgeting! There are emotional and spiritual components to finances that most couples ignore. How can you agree on a budget if you disagree on the basic purpose of money? How do men and women view money differently? How can they get on the same page? The Feldhahns provide insights and answers. 251 pages, hardcover from Bethany.
Is your "owe" starting to show? Shrink your waste line, bulk up your bank balance, and get into financial shape with money expert and radio host Ramsey's comprehensive---and simple---plan for debt-free living. You'll be fiscally fit in no time! This revised edition of the bestseller features all-new "Dave Rants" and forms; and updated statistics. 288 pages, hardcover from Nelson.
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