The Healthy Marriage Handbook: Solid Answers to More Than 200 Questions That Will Strengthen and Enhance Your Marriage

by Louise Ferrebee

Publisher:

B&H

, 2001

Overview

Marriage is an adventure with lots of unknowns. Every couple will have plenty of questions about how to successfully weave two lives into one. And yet, when it comes to asking questions about the most personal, intimate human relationship we’ll ever have, we often become ineffectively reserved. Why this hesitancy, even though we often desperately want answers? Revealing the nitty-gritty concerns and insecurities we have about our marriages takes a kind of vulnerability most of us fail to express. And so we continue to drift along—learning by trial and error and hoping for the best.

That’s where The Healthy Marriage Handbook comes in. Here are the answers to more than 200 confidential, personal questions that real people asked the editors of Marriage Partnership. It’s almost like having a trusted, wise couple come alongside—ready at a moment’s notice to help you safely clear the inevitable hurdles husbands and wives encounter on the road to marital happiness. The advice is time-tested, offered with compassion and understanding, and, most importantly, based on the counsel of God’s Word, the Bible. Indeed, it is only upon this rock that marriage can become what God intends.

Contents

Top Highlights

“best place to begin is with you and your husband each acknowledging your own sin.” (Page 197)

“Every couple should be able to find some activity they can enjoy sharing.” (Page 7)

“Third, total openness is harmful when it leads us to say hurtful things to others” (Page 17)

“We can’t bring about changes in our spouse by commanding him or her.” (Page 33)

“Our anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires (Jms. 1:20). Rather, people need to see God’s grace and righteousness reflected in our marriage.” (Page 41)

Product Details

• Title: The Healthy Marriage Handbook: Solid Answers to More Than 200 Questions That Will Strengthen and Enhance Your Marriage
• Author: Louise A. Ferrebee
• Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 320

About Louise Ferrebee

Louise A. Ferrebee has served as Associate Editor of Marriage Partnership, a Christianity Today International publication that has served the needs of married couples for more than ten years. Among the contributors are David and Claudia Garland, R. Kent Hughes, Bill Hybels, Melissa and Louis McBurney, Les Parrott, Clifford and Joyce Penner, Lewis Smedes, Charles Swindoll, John Trent, H. Norman Wright, and Philip Yancey.