Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Mordechai Gottman, Nan Silver

Dr. Gottman's work is unprecedented and inspiring. Dr. Gottman reveals surprising facts about couples who stay together: they engage in screaming matches and they certainly don't resolve every problem. Learn more of his "secrets" in this enlightening book

Fighting for Your Marriage : Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love by Scott Stanley, Susan L. Blumberg, Howard J. Markman, Dean S. Edellby

"Fighting For Your Marriage" can help you and your partner beat the odds and master the skills that can prevent marital stress and divorce. This book presents the widely respected and research-based PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach to improving marriage. Couples learn to: Discuss difficult issues safely and clearly; Use ground rules to contain destructive arguments and resolve conflicts; Enhance fun, friendship, commitment, spirituality, and intimacy.

Ghosts in the Bedroom: A Guide for the Partners of Incest Survivors by Ken Graber

Ken Graber's book is for those forgotten victims whose lives have also been affected by the sexual abuse their partners have suffered. This book provides comfort and guidance for partners in the process of recovery. Graber draws from personal experience to show how partners can accept responsibility for their own issues, support the recovery of the incest or sexual abuse survivor and work toward solving relationship problems together.

Saving Your Marriage before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Marry by Leslie Parrott

Are you tired of marriage books that sound like they were written thirty years ago? Do you want real, honest advice from a couple who knows the hopes and struggles of today's couples? Do you want to build a marriage that will last a lifetime? Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts is the first comprehensive marriage preparation program specifically designed for today's couples. And it's the first program for couples developed by a couple.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love & Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch

Therapist Schnarch writes that traditionally, marriage counselors have specialized in either sex therapy or relationship therapy; he argues that the two are so inextricably intertwined that to try and treat them separately is not worthwhile. Instead, he focuses on sex as a crucible in which a marriage can be strengthened and intimacy deepened. This is a thoughtful and inspiring book.

How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together: Breakthrough Strategies to Resolve Your Conflicts and Reignite Your Love by Susan Page

Susan Page's groundbreaking approach to relationships gives readers the tools and encouragement they need to bring positive changes to their relationship, even when their partners are unwilling to do the work.

Hope for the Separated by Gary Chapman

"Separation places you in an arena in which you can develop a new understanding of yourself and your spouse. Separation is not necessarily the beginning of the end. It may be only the beginning." Gary Chapman believes that the biblical ideal for a separated couple calls for reconciliation. Through small, simple steps, marriage counselor Gary Chapman shows that you may be able to achieve reconciliation with your mate.

The New Intimacy
By Judith Sherven & James Sniechowski

By weaving clear explanations, examples, personal experiences and exercises, Doctors Sherven and Sniechowski invite the reader to develop skills and awareness necessary for mature, robust love.