Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Men: Seven Questions to Ask Before---And After---You Marry

by Les Parrott III

Book Overview

You can do more than hope. Safeguard your relationship and build a love that not only goes the distance but fulfills your deepest dreams.

More than a million couples have used the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS for short) to prepare for life-long love.

The Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Men will help you uncover and understand the unique shaping factors you bring into your marriage as a man. Prepare for some surprising and helpful insights, for honest, intimate, and enjoyable relationship-strengthening conversations with you and your fianc e, and for engaging discussions with a small group.

Over the course of twenty-four exercises, this workbook will shed amazing new light on the way you're made, how that affects the way you and your loved one relate, and how you can improve those areas to build a better relationship. You will gain unprecedented insights into topics such as:

your personal "Ten Commandments"making your roles conscious exploring unfinished business assessing your self-image getting your sex life off to a great start cultivating intimacy listening to your self-talk avoiding the blame game how well do you communicate? your top ten needs mind reading how to listen identifying your "hot topics"money talks your spiritual journey

The personal exercises portion is followed by a discussion section: 7 Questions to Ask Before--and After--You Marry. Les and Leslie will help you enjoy lively and eye-opening interaction with each other and with a small group through seven sessions on the DVD (sold separately). The discussion guide takes you through an opening exercise, note-taking as you watch the video, linking to the workbook exercises, and group discussion, concluding with an exercise each couple can do together over the next week.

Designed for use with Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Women Updated (9780310875475) and Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Updated Video Study (9780310875734), both sold separately.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310875420
• ISBN13: 9780310875420
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Harperchristian Resources
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Tool

This is a great tool for getting the communication going to help the partners understand each other.

Should be required reading for engaged couples

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.

Good Response

While I haven't read this workbook myself, I have recommended it to a couple and then discussed the main book with them. I received a very good response from both of them, which means the workbook is doing its job! This whole series is a fine one to use for Christian counseling with couples who are to marry in the near future.

GREAT idea for engaged couples

I would highly recommend this book to any couple who is considering marriage, engaged, or recently married--or even couples who have been married for years. The practical advice is effective and Drs.Parrot illuminate issues that are vitally important to consider when building or fortifying a marriage yet that are often overlooked in favor of wedding preparation. Very helpful, honest and eye-opening.

Learning about each other

You will definitely need the actual book to use the workbooks. My fiance and I have been working through the lessons and are about halfway through the workbooks. The best thing about the exercises is that there are so many things about my future wife that I didn't know, especially in regards to how she thinks and feels about certain aspects of life. We are becoming closer as we're beginning to understand each other at a deeper level. I'm learning more about how women communicate and how they really aren't able to come to grips with exactly how we operate either. The exercises vary from childhood influences to budgeting to love languages. We look forward to each time we work through the lessons. I highly recommend them for any couple preparing for marriage.