Suggested Reading

The Marriage Journey: A Flight Plan to Your Healthy Marriage

The Marriage Journey gives helpful navigational aids you can easily apply during the stormy times of your marriage flight.  The aeronautical theme gives an uplifting perspective to the turbulence often experienced in marriage.

The Journey checkups, flight plans, and more, make for an easy read, plus offer a fresh and unclouded approach to help you build a strong marriage and family.  

Travel on The Marriage Journey for an unforgettable trip.   The analogy of plane travel used in the book, the Journey helps couples explore new territories and make surprising discoveries.  A successful marriage requires clear flight plans to avoid thunder storms for a smooth journey.  God as the pilot and couples as the co-pilots, couples need to work as a team to make the flight as enjoyable as possible and appreciate the beauty of the skies.  The Journey will help couples have a pleasant trip.  Enjoy the flight!

Written by the co-author of The Solution for Marriages, The Marriage Journey shares skills to create a strong, healthy and lasting marriage.  It is designed for couples of any age or stage in their relationship.  You can turn a good marriage into a great one, find hope in a struggling one, or take a great marriage to a deeper, more passionate level.

The Couple Checkup: Find Your Relationship Strengths

The COUPLE CHECKUP: Find Your Relationship Strengths

 by David H. Olson, Amy K. Olson-Sigg, Peter J. Larson
The Couple Checkup provides a guide for you to better understand your relationship; whether you are dating, engaged or married. With a FREE Online Individual Profile to go along with the book this is a perfect way to give your relationship a Checkup!
 
Drawing on over 35 years of research and the responses of over 50,000 couples, The Couple Checkup explores issues such as communication, finances, sexuality, spirituality, and parenting. You will compare your results with other couples and learn principles for strengthening your relationship with one another.

Remarriage Checkup, The: Tools to Help Your Marriage Last

The REMARRIAGE CHECKUP: Tools to Make Your Marriage Last A Lifetime
Ron L. Deal, the leading Christian remarriage authority, and David H. Olson, a seasoned marriage and family expert, give couples hope that they can have strong, healthy marriages. Their advice grows out of Olson’s National Survey of Couples Creating Step families, the largest study of its kind ever conducted. As couples work through the chapters in The Remarriage Checkup in conjunction with an online Couple Checkup, they’ll discover ways to improve all aspects of their marriage and build on its strengths.

The Total Money Makeover Workbook

The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
A simple, straight-forward game plan for completely making over your money habits!
Best-selling author and radio host Dave Ramsey is your personal coach in this informative and interactive companion to the highly successful New York Times bestseller The Total Money Makeover. With inspiring real-life stories and thought-provoking questionnaires, this workbook will help you achieve financial fitness as you daily work out those newly defined money muscles. Ramsey will motivate you to immediate action, so you can:
* Set up an emergency fund (believe me, you’re going to need it)
* Pay off your home mortgage?it is possible.
* Prepare for college funding (your kids will love you for it)
* Maximize your retirement investing so you can live your golden years in financial peace
* Build wealth like crazy!
With incentive exercises that really do exercise your spending and saving habits, Ramsey will get your mind and your money working to make your life free of fiscal stress and strain. It’s a no-nonsense plan that will not only make over your money habits, but it will also completely transform your life.

Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs

Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
by Emerson Eggerichs
A Simple Message A wife has one driving need—to feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A husband has one driving need—to feel respected. When that need is met, he is happy. When either of these needs isn’t met, things get crazy. Love and Respect reveals why spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily, and biblically.
A Message That Works Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and his wife, Sarah, have already taken the Love and Respect message across America and are changing the way couples talk to, think about, and treat each other. What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel close? Want to feel valued? Want to experience marriage the way God intended? Then why not try some Love and Respect.

The Love Dare

The Love Dare
by Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick
Unconditional love is eagerly promised at weddings, but rarely practiced in real life. As a result, romantic hopes are often replaced with disappointment in the home. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.

The Love Dare, the New York Times No. 1 best seller that has sold five million copies and was major plot device in the popular movie Fireproof, is a 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Whether your marriage is hanging by a thread or healthy and strong, The Love Dare is a journey you need to take. It’s time to learn the keys to finding true intimacy and developing a dynamic marriage.

Smart Stepfamily, The: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family

Smart Stepfamily, The: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family
by Ron L. Deal
Ron Deal explodes the myth of the “blended” family as he provides practical, realistic solutions to the issues that stepfamilies face. He helps remarried and soon-to-be married couples Recognize the unique personality and place of each family member Solve the everyday puzzles of stepparenting and stepchildren relationships Learn communication skills to deal with ex-spouses Honor families of origin while developing new traditions Invest the time to grow their stepfamily slowly rather than look for instant results

52 Fantastic Dates for You and Your Mate

52 Fantastic Dates for You and Your Mate
by Claudia Arp and David Arp
52 Fantastic Dates for You and Your Mate is a wonderful tool for those who want to make their marriage come alive with fun, laughter, and good times together. “Will dating make a difference in your marriage?” ask the authors. “Our answer is an emphatic ‘Yes!'”