A Handbook for Engaged Couples

by Alice Fryling and Robert Fryling

Book Overview

Alice and Robert Fryling help engaged couples set a precedent for open, honest communication in the light of Scripture. This highly interactive book gives you and your future spouse solid, biblically-inspired counsel as you address challenging questions together or with a pastor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830819789
• ISBN13: 9780830819782
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: IVP Bible Studies
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Great premarital counseling book

This book is excellent for pastors and bible counselors for the purpose of doing pre-marital counseling

Love this book!

At first I was really disappointed about the size but since we have started it I have loved this book! It covers a wide variety of topics and it asks thoughtful questions. There are good Christian principles behind this book but it does not make the all too common mistake of telling every couple to be the same way. The book is not going to tell you how to be engaged or be married but it sets up things that you must discuss and that will be important to your marriage. The authors are very insightful and give good Christian morality as well!

Helping a marriage last forever

I have used this book in premarriage counseling for over 30 years. It is the best I have seen. It is also helpful to use after the wedding for fine tuning. If a couple is dilagent in filling out the questions & then discussing them together and/or with a trained counselor, they will be richly rewarded with a good marriage. This book should be used by all who are getting married with each person having their own copy.

It's the Jam!

I really liked this book. Our pastor got us to purchase it as a part of our premarital counseling. It has a short ammount of information that gets straight to the point in each chapter (2 or 3 pages), and then it has at least a page, if not two, of great discussion questions. The questions are deep and thought provoking. They challenge the couple to really deal with the issues at hand. The information is short, but impactful. The book also has a great, natural flow. I love it!

Best thing we did for our relationship.

This book is really amazing. Going through it page by page was the best thing we have ever done for our relationship.

I'm not engaged but...

I'm not engaged, or even close to being engaged. Nonetheless, I found the Frylings' handbook refreshing and honest about communications and expectations among couples. I bought it on a whim, having heard that the Frylings do not sugarcoat reality in their presentation. My own relationship was floundering and I needed direction. I wish I had bought it several months earlier! While written from a evangelical Christian perspective, it has that special universality of truth for every couple looking to understand and to communicate with their mate or future spouse. I can see it being read alone for personal growth, with your fiance, or even the two of you with a counselor or older, wiser friend. Better yet, try going through this (be ready to be challenged!) with a married couple who seems to "have it together." Catholics will love it as an addition to their time spent in pre-marital counseling. You're best to buy two copies, with each person reading a portion (set up in topical chapters with discussion questions). Though I'm one who has never been married, I believe it would be great for a couple married several years as well, helping re-ground your marriage. Don't think of this as just a tool to get your spouse to open up, but as a mutual opportunity to renew the love which drew you to marriage in the first place. This book is no panacea, but it can assist a new beginning, or a careful grounding for a future marriage. For you single guys (and gals) get a copy of "A Handbook for Engaged Couples" and read it. It'll help you (and me) relate to anyone you might consider saying "I do" with on an altar someday. (post-script: I have since been engaged, and can further attest to this book's usefulness, having been happily married now since 2004). Anthony Trendl editor, HungarianBookstore.com