While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Premarital books.
- From Me to We: A Premarital Guide for the Bride- and Groom-to-Be (2017)
- Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married (2010)
- I Do!: A Marriage Workbook for Engaged Couples (2019)
- 1001 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married (2004)
- Getting Ready for Marriage Workbook (2015)
- Pre-Marital Counseling (2016)
- Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World (2008)
- 131 Creative Conversations For Couples: Christ-honoring questions to deepen your relationship, grow your friendship, and kindle romance. (2016)
- Empower Your Marriage From The Start: A Premarital Counseling Workbook (2019)
- Premarital Counseling DIY Handbook: The Do-It-Yourself Guide on How to Have a Happy Marriage, and What Questions to Ask Before Getting Married (2014)
- Christian Premarital Counseling: Preparing the Two to Become One (2014)
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From Me to We: A Premarital Guide for the Bride- and Groom-to-Be (2017)
Marriage is not for the faint of heart. Men, look at Ephesians 5:28: “So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.” Men, are you ready to make a commitment such as this? Ladies, are you ready to hop on his train? Consider Ephesians 5:22: “Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” How are you both going to work out that verse as a couple?
Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married (2010)
“Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage,” No wonder the divorce rate hovers around fifty percent. Bestselling author and marriage counselor, Gary Chapman, hopes to change that with his newest book.
I Do!: A Marriage Workbook for Engaged Couples (2019)
Strengthen Your Bond, Strengthen Your MarriagePlanning a meaningful wedding is important. Planning for a happy and satisfying marriage is critical. Through in-depth, thought-provoking exercises, I Do!
1001 Questions to Ask Before You Get Married (2004)
There’s nothing wrong with starter jobs and starter homes, but starter marriages? Relationship expert Monica Mendez Leahy is on a mission to help readers make their marriage last.
Getting Ready for Marriage Workbook (2015)
Pulling off a successful wedding is one thing but fortifying a lifelong relationship is an entirely different endeavor. Relationship experts Jim Burns and Doug Fields invite couples to take a proactive approach to their marriage union—one that doesn’t shy away from sticky areas and tough topics—in order to develop a solid course from the very beginning.
Pre-Marital Counseling (2016)
A guide for therapists and counselors, Pre-Marital Counseling addresses the common problems couples face when starting or considering marriage. This step-by-step guide teaches specific intervention strategies for common pre-marital problems, such as financial stress, blending families, and mental health issues. It also teaches readers helpful skills such as developing empathy, learning to compromise, and communicating successfully, all within a potentially diverse client population.
Me to We: Finding Meaning in a Material World (2008)
.Me to We is an approach to life that leads us to recognize what is truly valuable, make new decisions about the way we want to live, and redefine the goals we set for ourselves and the legacy we want to leave. Above all, it creates new ways of measuring meaning, happiness, and success in our lives, and makes these elusive goals attainable at last.
131 Creative Conversations For Couples: Christ-honoring questions to deepen your relationship, grow your friendship, and kindle romance. (2016)
This couples questions book will guide you on the journey! These fun relationship questions will help you grow. They are for couples who long to level-up their relationship and include fun, creative, and deep conversation starters. Some relationship questions are purely fun and liven up the mood. Other conversation starters encourage you to dream about the future.
Empower Your Marriage From The Start: A Premarital Counseling Workbook (2019)
How do you keep your marriage filled with love, openness, joy, appreciation and passion? How do you navigate the challenges of marriage without drifting apart? “Romantic, emotionally committed partnerships are complicated, often messy, sometimes painful AND ultimately fulfilling in a way that no other relationship in our human existence can match.” Lori Kret and Jeff Cole have over 20 years of combined experience working on the front lines of love.
Premarital Counseling DIY Handbook: The Do-It-Yourself Guide on How to Have a Happy Marriage, and What Questions to Ask Before Getting Married (2014)
If you want to strengthen the foundation of your relationship through DIY premarital counseling, then this book is for you! So, you’ve finally found and committed yourself to the person you’re sure is The One. Yet, you’re two different people. Sometimes those differences amuse you, please you, and uplift you. But other times, they really worry you. You’ve considered the prospect of in-person premarital counseling, but the idea concerns both you and your partner.
Christian Premarital Counseling: Preparing the Two to Become One (2014)
All you need to conduct premarital counseling! How does one implement premarital counseling? Developing a new curriculum is time consuming. Though Christian leaders would like to assist young couples at the outset of this lifetime commitment, they are not sure how to proceed. Christian Premarital Counseling provides the plan you need to go with ease into these counseling sessions.
Best Premarital Books You Should Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some premarital books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Enjoying the Premarital Life
Author(s): Zacharias Tanee Fomum
ID: 3406891, Publisher: ZTF Books Online, Year: 2014, Size: 406 Kb, Format: epub
Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup - Research, Theory, and Practice (Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary ... Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series)
Author(s): Thomas B. Holman
ID: 524697, Publisher: , Year: 2002, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup: Research, Theory, and Practice
Author(s): Thomas B. Holman, Paul James Birch, Jason S. Carroll, Cynthia Doxey, Jeffry H. Larson, Steven T. Linford
ID: 1148518, Publisher: Springer US, Year: 2002, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly best-sellers according to Washington Post, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.