The Creative Marriage
The Creative Marriage

Author: Ed Young

Publisher: XO Publishing

Published: 2022-02-11

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1950113779

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DO YOU WANT AN EXCITING AND SATISFYING MARRIAGE? When the dreams fade and the realities of life set in, those magical vows from your wedding day can start to lose their luster. You begin to negotiate the marital maze of budgeting, balancing in-laws, choosing careers, and then you add children to the mix. To top it off, the romantic feelings for each other ebb and flow in the stresses of everyday life. How can we be men and women who consistently and creatively live out our vows after the honeymoon is over? In a culture that tells us it’s ok to quit, it’s time for us to discover what it takes to commit and experience a marriage and love created to last. Ed and Lisa take a penetrating look at what it means to have a lasting marriage in today’s world. Drawing upon their experience in church ministry and successful marriage of more than forty years, they speak openly and honestly about the hard work involved in keeping your marital relationship fresh and alive as you creatively live out your “I Do’s.” The Creative Marriage offers valuable insight into these critical areas: ● Laying a strong foundation for a lasting marriage ● Keeping your marriage relationship at the center of your home ● Building up your spouse with creative communication ● Allowing positive conflict resolution to increase intimacy ● Removing the barriers to a sizzling sex life ● Protecting your marriage against financial pressures ● Recreating marriage and family after divorce Disclaimer: Former Version The Creative Marriage: The Art of Keeping Your Love Alive by Ed Young Hardcover ISBN: 978-0972581301 October 1, 2002 by Creality Publishing New Version The Creative Marriage: The Art of Keeping Your Love Alive by Ed & Lisa Young Paperback ISBN: 9781950113743 February 11, 2022 by XO Publishing Also Applies to eBook/Kindle Version

Little Book of Great Dates
Little Book of Great Dates

Author: Greg Smalley

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2013-09-20

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1624051855

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The Little Book of Great Dates will help build romance and fun into any marriage with its creative ideas for a year’s worth of weekly affordable dates. This book—a simpler, gift version of Focus on the Family’s The Date Night Challenge campaign—will help couples to proactively and intentionally build their relationship, showing how everyday activities can become “dates” that strengthen the marriage relationship. It includes plans for special-occasion dates, such as the couple’s anniversaries (first date, engagement, wedding), birthdays, etc. Couples can get to know each other better by sharing fun times and discover dating again in their marriage with this great little book of ideas!

Fierce Marriage
Fierce Marriage

Author: Ryan Frederick

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1493412779

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Ryan and Selena Frederick were newlyweds when they landed in Switzerland to pursue Selena's dream of training horses. Neither of them knew at the time that Ryan was living out a death sentence brought on by a worsening genetic heart defect. Soon it became clear he needed major surgery that could either save his life--or result in his death on the operating table. The young couple prepared for the worst. When Ryan survived, they both realized that they still had a future together. But the near loss changed the way they saw all that would lie ahead. They would live and love fiercely, fighting for each other and for a Christ-centered marriage, every step of the way. Fierce Marriage is their story, but more than that, it is a call for married couples to put God first in their relationship, to measure everything they do and say to each other against what Christ did for them, and to see marriage not just as a relationship they should try to keep healthy but also as one worth fighting for in every situation. With the gospel as their foundation, Ryan and Selena offer hope and practical help for common struggles in marriage, including communication problems, sexual frustration, financial stress, family tension, screen-time disconnection, and unrealistic expectations.

The Long, Hot Marriage
The Long, Hot Marriage

Author: Todd Creager

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781600132759

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The book, The Long, HOT Marriage is all about creative relating-out of the bedroom and ultimately in the bedroom. From being creative and imaginative in how you perceive your partner to creatively and maturely dealing with emotional pain, you can develop a strong emotional connection to each other, which forms the foundation of passionate, long-term relationship. With this foundation in place, you can create a romantic, sexually creative relationship, use your sexual relationship for spiritual and emotional growth and increase your capacity to give and receive love and pleasure.

Time for a Better Marriage
Time for a Better Marriage

Author: Jon Carlson

Publisher: Impact Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781886230460

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The return of a classic! A systematic, practical model for building marriage skills, newly revised and updated. Invaluable tools to help make marriages more rewarding, effective, and satisfying by showing couples how to encourage each other, resolve conflict, communicate effectively, maintain equality in the relationship, and make better choices.

The Ghost Marriage
The Ghost Marriage

Author: Kirsten Mickelwait

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1647420318

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At thirty-one, Kirsten has just returned to San Francisco from a bohemian year in Rome, ready to pursue a serious career as a writer and eventually, she hopes, marriage and family. When she meets Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney, she begins to see that future materialize more quickly than she’d dared to expect. Twenty-two years later, Steve has turned into someone quite different. Unemployed and addicted to opioids, he uses money and their two children to emotionally blackmail Kirsten. What’s more, he’s been having an affair with their real estate agent, who is also her close friend. So she divorces him—but after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within a year, leaving Kirsten with $1.5 million in debts she knew nothing about. It’s then that she finally understands: The man she’d married was a needy, addictive person who came wrapped in a shiny package. As she fights toward recovery, Kirsten begins to receive communications from Steve in the afterlife—which lead her on an unexpected path to forgiveness. The Ghost Marriage is her story of discovery—that life isn’t limited to the tangible reality we experience on this earth, and that our worst adversaries can become our greatest teachers.

Delancey
Delancey

Author: Molly Wizenberg

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1451655096

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"When Molly Wizenberg married Brandon Pettit, she vowed always to support him, to work with him to make their hopes and dreams real. She evinced enthusiasm about Brandon's enthusiasms: building a violin, building a boat, and opening an ice cream store--none of which came to pass. So when Brandon started making plans to open a pizza restaurant, Molly felt sure that the restaurant would join the list of Brandon's abandoned projects. When she finally realized that Delancey really was going to happen, that Brandon was going to change all of her assumptions about what their married life would be like, it was too late. She faced the first crisis in their young marriage. Opening a restaurant is not like hosting a dinner party every night. Molly and Brandon's budget was small, and the tasks at hand were often overhwelming. They had to find a space they could afford, gut renovate it themselves, find second-hand furniture and equipment, build what furniture they couldn't find, buy and install a wood-burning oven, pass health inspections, hire staff, and establish a billing and payroll system. They lost a financial partner. Their cook disappeared the day they opened. Still, their restaurant was a success, and Molly managed to convince herself that she was happy in their new life. Until Halloween night, when she was forced to admit she could no longer pretend. While Delancey is a funny and frank look at behind-the-scenes restaurant life, it is also a bravely honest and moving portrait of a tender young marriage and two partners who had to find out how to let each other go in order to come together"--

Our Perfect Marriage
Our Perfect Marriage

Author: Alan Linic

Publisher: Quirk Books

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1594749345

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Work through your marriage problems, or at least laugh about them, with this tongue-in-cheek workbook created by a pair of newly married Twitter comedians. Think you know your spouse? Then try naming your loved one's... - Favorite candy - Most annoying habit - Worst dinner party story - Indefensible political views - Opinion about James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic Couldn't do it? How embarrassing for you Fortunately, Our Perfect Marriage can help. Part keepsake, part guided journal, part permanent record, this unique diary will capture every magical and mundane moment of your matrimony. From poignant fill-in-the-blank prompts (The First Time You Messed Up) to soul-searching scrapbooking exercises (The Story of Us as Told by Receipts), it's a must for any lucky couple teetering on the threshold of married bliss.

Sexperiment
Sexperiment

Author: Ed Young

Publisher: FaithWords

Published: 2012-01-10

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1455504815

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The predominant message in our culture is that it's okay to have sex whenever, wherever, and however we want. Sex has become just sex. But while society has taken sex too far, the church hasn't taken it far enough. God wants couples to make love in marriage-with passion, with purpose, and with pleasure. Marriages aren't experiencing all the benefits that come from a healthy sex life. Couples are facing a barrage of influences that keep them from connecting with each other regularly-the kids, the career, the house, the errands, etc. SEXPERIMENT shows people that sex in marriage is more than just sex, and it's more than a chore. The Youngs believe it's time to get back to understanding the context of sex in marriage and that it's time for couples to break the barriers keeping them from a healthy sexual relationship. Couples ought to experience the benefits of having sex regularly, intentionally, and creatively. SEXPERIMENT will allow couples to discover that the intersection of God and sex can lead to a life punctuated by exclamation marks!

The Truth about Marriage
The Truth about Marriage

Author: Roger Nygard

Publisher: Micro Publishing Media

Published: 2020-02-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781944068936

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We are all doing relationships wrong. That is what Roger Nygard discovered after meeting with dozens of psychologists and relationship specialists. There are simple changes we can make that lead to far greater relationship happiness. Nygard's work as a feature film and documentary writer and director has focused on topics as diverse as an unparalleled, pop-culture, fandom-phenomenon known as Trekkies, an obsessive, culture of UFO enthusiasts found in Six Days In Roswell, the behind-the-scenes methods used by car salesmen in the movie Suckers, and the impossible-to-tackle topic of existentialism in The Nature of Existence For his next enquiry Nygard began a journey of discovery to solve an even bigger mystery: marriage. Nygard became obsessed with discovering why marriage is so difficult for human beings, and what are the real secrets to a successful, happy relationship. Every generation seems to make the same mistakes over and over. We aren't taught in school how to have good relationships. We are sent into the world to figure out this complex formula on our own, through trial and error, a bumpy process causing emotional damage to ourselves and others. THE TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE is an examination of the problems all those in relationships face, and a guide with specific steps from the experts that anybody can utilize to enjoy healthier, happier, more successful relationships and marriages.