Designed to teach couples communication and problem solving skills found to be linked to effective marital functioning. Research has shed light not only on the greatest risk factors for marital failure, but also on the most promising avenues to help couples build and maintain great marriages. Can couples learn how to avoid the pitfalls, and learn to deepen and maintain love for a lifetime? Come and find out.

The powerful and practical principles are based solidly on Scripture with a unique blending of university research. The result is a thoroughly Christian version of the widely respected PREP approach.

Part One: Handling Conflict and Protecting Your Marriage
1. Oneness
2. Four Key Patterns That Destroy Oneness
3. Communicating Safely and Clearly: The Speaker-Listener Technique
4. Problem Solving
5. Ground Rules for Protecting Your Marriage from Conflict

Part Two: Going Deeper
6. Issues and Events
7. Unmet Expectations and What to Do About Them
8. Understanding Commitment
9. The Power of Commitment
10. Forgiveness and the Restoration of Intimacy

Part Three: Great Things
11. Preserving and Protecting Friendship
12. Increasing Your Fun Together
13. Enhancing and Protecting Your Sex Life
14. Spiritual Intimacy and Oneness