Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Devotional
52 Meditations for Spiritual Intimacy

When Marcie and I got married, this was the book (along with the corresponding workbooks) that our pastor used for pre-marital counseling. Ever since I started doing pre-marital counseling, it’s the book that I’ve used, as well. I am finishing up another round of pre-marital counseling this week, an......more

Ah, mandatory marriage reading! I wasn't especially thrilled with the title of the book, so I didn't come to this with the most open of minds. There were helpful parts in the Parrotts examination of marriage and its obstacles, but in the end I felt it was too driven by the culture for a book from a......more

Actually not that bad. It even had interesting parts in it. "As strange as it may sound, there is a strong link in marriage between prayer and sex. For one thing, frequency of prayer is a more powerful predictor of marital satisfaction than frequency of sexual intimacy. But get this: Married couples......more

My pastor recommended this to my fiance and me to read before our wedding. We dutifully skimmed the chapters and read the questions to each other. We liked that the book had specific advice. It didn't just say, "Be nice to each other." It gives communication strategies, questions to ask each other wh......more

The Leslies have taught me indeed how to save my marriage before it starts. In this book, I've gotten to learn how to take things seriously I previously considered to be trivial. It has also inspired me to invest more in my relationship if I want it to survive the storms of life. I recommend it to a......more