Family Connection Resources on
Marriage

Building Your Mate's Self-Esteem, Rainey/Rainey (Book & video, Here's Life) A practical resource for couples who want to bring out the best in each other and develop mutual acceptance and respect.

Communication: Key to Your Marriage, Wright (Book, Regal) This book provides ways to reduce marital conflict, build a partner's self-esteem, manage anger, and avoid anxiety and worry.

Love is a Decision, Smalley/Trent (Book, Word) This practical and Bible-centered book presents thirteen proven principles to energize marriage and family.

Love for a Lifetime, Dobson (Book, Multnomah) Written especially for the engaged and newly married, this book gives the fundamentals of Christian marriage and presents keys to an enduring relationship.

Marriage Savers: Helping Your Friends and Family Stay Married, McManus (Book, Zondervan) How-to guide for marital success, from dating through engagement and marriage.

The Myth of Greener Grass, Petersen (Book, Tyndale) The author tells how to affair-proof marriage, restore love, and recover dreams. A marriage test for wives and husbands is included.

Rekindled, Williams/Williams (Book, Revell) In this candid, personal account, a husband and wife share the biblical principles of love that can rebuild a crumbling marriage. Subjects covered are confrontation, self-image, courtship, commitment, and long-term healing.

Rocking the Roles: Building a Win-Win Marriage Lewis/Hendricks (Book, NavPress) The authors help couples transform their marriages by applying practical, biblical principles to correct misunderstandings and establish roles that don't limit choices.

Strike the Original Match: Rekindling & Preserving Your Marriage Fire, Swindoll (Book, Multnomah) Swindoll presents god's blueprint for marriage in ways that he promises are "realistic, believable, positive, non-technical, and free from perfectionistic demands".

What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women, Dobson (Book, Tyndale) Dobson discusses the common frustrations of American women today and how husbands can provide help and understanding. He includes chapters on aging, mid-life physiological changes, depression, fatigue, and finances.

When the One You Love Wants to Leave Harvey (Book, Baker) This book, subtitled Guidance and Comfort for Surviving Marital Crisis, offers commonsense, Bible-based principles to deal with extreme marital crisis. Workbook pages help individuals work through feelings.
 
 

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