Seven Questions to Ask Before -- and After -- You Marry

Although some of the advice is common sense for many couples (i.e. your problems don't go away when you get married), i think that overall it's useful for couples to discuss their different emotions and to get people communicating. and, let's face it, we all know at least one couple who needs to be told that problems in the relationship don't go away with marriage.

My husband and I read this book and the accompanying workbooks in premarital counseling, and 5 years later, we still refer to things we learned in the book. It deals with very practical issues and can prevent a lot of miscommunication in a marriage. Great for all, but especially good for Christian couples. I loved it so much, I've bought 2 more sets for friends!

Love this book! It has given many good conversation starters for my fiancé and me. It's helped us to talk about important issues that come up in a marriage, and has hopefully equipped us with the tools needed to handle those issues as they arise.

great book to go through. Recommend it to anyone about to get married or thinking about getting married. I am goin thru it with my fiance now and its great to have a curriculum to go through to help get to know my fiance on a more intimate level.

This book/workbook is so helpful and I highly recommend it to any couple headed towards marriage. Many couples are naive, like myself, and think that they talked about everything they need to talk about together! This isn't about conversational topics necessarily. It provokes conversation and allows each of you to get to know each other on a deeper level. You'll identify unspoken needs, marriage expecations and styles of your significant other. The book helps you look realistically at marriage and put the planning into it that it deserves. I orginally read the book solo and found it to be insightful. A year later, my boyfriend and I took a Pre-Engagement Class together and it turned out to be fully based on this book/workbook! It is so much more beneficial when studied together! I can tell you that this book has brought us so much closer together and gave us the confidence needed to move towards engagement.

Excellent book for newly wed or couples who have been married a while. It deals with issues every marriage encounters and hits them head on. It provides good talking points to help you and your spouse work to understand what is going on and move forward.

As a minister, I want to give couples in premarital counseling an overview of what to expect in marriage, and some tools to help them make their marriage successful. The chapters are short enough to allow for quick reading, and varied enough to allow a wide range of topics to be discussed.

Wow this book has changed so many perspectives for my fiancé and I. It was recommended by my pastor for us to read and discuss together, and with them during our premarital counseling. I highly suggest getting the work book too, we didn't but we want to read it again and do the workbook. At first my man was skeptical about reading t, and being bored, this book is not boring it is extremely insightful and related to every day life which is what we loved. Right on point.
Every engaged couple must read. It is catered more to couples who don't live together, but it was fine for us we adjusted to those stories and examples.

I highly recommend this study, especially for dating/engaged couples! My fiance and I really enjoyed it, it helped us think of things to talk about and it was kind of like our own premarital counseling before the actual premarital counseling :)

My wife and I used this for premartial counseling, it was great to start conversations. If you treat it as something to complete you won't get as much out of it as a beginning of conversations for your marriage. 1 year in and we still sometimes reference it.

I just finished reading this book. It well written and easy to understand. Les and Leslie are husband and wife who share their own mistakes to help us identify how we could have done better. They are not perfect and neither are we, but we can continue to improve our relationships using their insight.