The Marriage You've Always Wanted
Overview
From America’s favorite marriage expert and author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, The 5 Love Languages®
Respected marriage counselor Gary Chapman looks at the key issues that will help you build the marriage you’ve always wanted, answering such real-life questions as . . .
- Why won’t they change?
- Why do we always fight about tasks and responsibilities?
- Why should we have to work at sex?
In the warm, practical style that has endeared him to audiences worldwide, Dr. Chapman delivers advice on all the “big issues,” like:
- Money
- Communication
- Decision making
- In-laws
- and much more
Each chapter includes a “Your Turn” opportunity for reflection and interaction between spouses.
Discover the “joy potential” in your marriage and your “ministry potential” for God!
Introduction
1. Why Do People Marry?
2. "Why Won’t They Change?"
3. What Love Really Means
4. "Listen to Me!"
5. Who Takes Care of What?
6. Decisions, Decisions
7. "You Mean We Have to Work at Sex?"
8. Leaving and Honoring Parents
9. Love and Money
Epilogue
Notes
Resources
- Title: The Marriage You've Always Wanted
- Author: Gary Chapman
- Publisher: Moody Publishers
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780802476944, 9780802424280, 0802424287, 0802476945
- Resource ID: LLS:9780802476944
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-03T01:10:02Z
Dr. Gary Chapman is the author of the best-selling The Five Love Languages (more than 6 million copies sold) and numerous other marriage and family books. He is the director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, INC., an internationally-known speaker, and the host of A Long Language Minute, a syndicated radio program heard on more than 200 stations across North America. He and his wife, Karolyn, live in North Carolina.