101 Most Important Things You Need to Know Before You Get Married

This collection of life lessons and wisdom will help you navigate your marital journey with greater ease. You can keep your married life balanced and centered simply by the choices you make. This little book offers practical, timeless advice on such topics as: Attitude ? Finances ? Faith ? Integrity ? Security ? Patience Take to heart these simple messages, and your marriage will be blessed with happiness and...

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We Should Do This More Often: A Parent’s Guide to Romance, Passion, and Other Pre-Child Activities You Vaguely Recall

Because 18 Years Is a Long Time to Wait In a recent poll taken by Parents magazine, 87 percent of moms admitted they don’t make love as often as they did before having kids, while one-third confessed their love life has taken a “major nosedive.” Experts say a whopping majority of moms suffer from low libido, and many of the reasons aren’t biological. So how can you get your mojo back and start to love making love again? Get the scoop on these and other extremely hot–and often hilarious–topics, including: • Timing that works for everyone (we’re not talking the next decade) • Keeping the ankle biters in their beds when you desperately need them out of yours •...

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Stress-Proof Your Marriage

The world is full of one-stop, quick-fix, magic-bullet promises that any problem can be solved in an instant. But, while we all know marriage can certainly be broken in an instant, it will never be fixed that way. Whether you’re just starting out in a marriage or are longtime marriage “veterans,” we can all use a road map to making our marriages stronger, happier, and more resilient when faced with inevitable difficult...

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I Promise You Forever: Our Lifetime Together

In his groundbreaking book, I Promise, Dr. Gary Smalley condensed 10 years of marriage research into the powerful message that marriage survives and thrives when the relationship is characterized by emotional “safety” and “affirmation.” Now he has created a lovely gift book that helps couples speak to one another’s heart and emotional needs with gentle promises-to be faithful, to listen, to forgive, to honor, to provide for-that affirm the forever kind of love. The package is created by an award-winning designer who has garnered the highest awards in the gift and card...

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Reflections from the Powder Room on The Love Dare

What’s more fun than reading a book? Discussing it with friends. . . or even strangers who become friends. Four of us happened to stumble upon The Powder Room, an on-line reading place where women discuss, dissect, and dish out some diverse thoughts about best-selling books. A book is not only a friend-it makes friends when people are drawn in to a conversation about it. Although as different from each other as colors of lip stick, hair, and fingernail polish, we felt a divine connect through humor, personality quirks, and a common desire to gain momentum toward our God-given destiny. We decided to review books written by those who have traveled similar roads and triumphed, or who have taken...

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God on Sex: The Creator’s Ideas About Love, Intimacy, and Marriage

Daniel Akin does not write in a vacuum. Having led over 300 marriage seminars across the United States, he is in touch with contemporary distorted perceptions of sex. But the Bible is not silent on this subject. As a matter of fact it has much to say. As the creator of sex, God knows and has imparted the knowledge of the conditions for sex at its best. Daniel Akin sets the many and varied misconceptions about sex alongside God’s design to reveal His intention and blessing for this vital dimension of...

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