A Handbook for Engaged Couples

by Alice Fryling, Robert A. Fryling

Overview

You're engaged! And now you are knee-deep in planning the details of the wedding. But are you also getting ready for what comes after the wedding? Alice and Robert Fryling bring over twenty-five years of marriage experience to this workbook designed to guide you through open and honest communication about the things that will really matter in your marriage:

• money
• time
• communication
• sex
• family
• work
• faith

This isn't just a book you read—it's a book you experience together. Its interactive style allows you and your future spouse to explore its biblically-based counsel and challenging questions together or with a pastor. And with three chapters tailored specifically to your first few months together, you can even use A Handbook for Engaged Couples after the wedding. Set aside time now to develop a marriage that starts well and grows to lasting maturity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830819782
Publisher:	InterVarsity Press
Publication date:	02/15/1996
Edition description:	Revised, Revised Edition
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	611,992
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Alice Frying is a spiritual director and the author of nine books, including Seeking God Together: An Introduction to Group Spiritual Direction. She has been giving Enneagram workshops for fifteen years, teaching participants how to use the Enneagram to know God and themselves more deeply. She and her husband have two married daughters and four grandchildren.

Robert A. (Bob) Fryling is publisher of InterVarsity Press (Westmont, Illinois) and Vice President of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (Madison, Wisconsin). He writes, speaks and teaches in the areas of spiritual formation, leadership, Christian faith and culture. He lives in Illinois with his wife, Alice, an author and spiritual director. Together they have co-authored three books.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Walter and Ingrid Trobisch
Introduction.

Part One: Starting Out
1. The Foundation
2. Communication in Marriage
3. Problem Solving I

Part Two: Basic Decisions
4. Living Working
5. Family Relationships
6. Money
7. Time

Part Three: The Personal Side
8. Spiritual Growth in Marriage
9. Moods and Emotions
10. The Physical Relationship During Engagement

Part Four: Your New Beginnings
11. Living with Past Regrets
12. The Wedding
13. The Honeymoon

Part Five: After the Wedding
14. Problem Solving II
15. Sex in Marriage
16. Finding Forgiveness in Marriage

Postscript

Notes