Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Women Updated: Seven Questions to Ask Before---and After---You Marry

by Les Parrott III

You can do more than hope. Safeguard your relationship and build a love that not only goes the distance but fulfills your deepest dreams. More than a million couples have used the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS for short) to prepare for life-long love.
The Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Women will help you uncover and understand the unique shaping factors you bring into your marriage as a woman. Prepare for some surprising and helpful insights, for honest, intimate, and enjoyable relationship-strengthening conversations with you and your fiancé, and for engaging discussions with a small group. Over the course of twenty-four exercises, this workbook will shed amazing new light on the way you're made, how that affects the way you and your loved one relate, and how you can improve those areas to build a better relationship. You will gain unprecedented insights into topics such The personal exercises portion is followed by a discussion 7 Questions to Ask Before—and After—You Marry . Les and Leslie will help you enjoy lively and eye-opening interaction with each other and with a small group through seven sessions on the DVD (sold separately). The discussion guide takes you through an opening exercise, note-taking as you watch the video, linking to the workbook exercises, and group discussion, concluding with an exercise each couple can do together over the next week. Designed for use with Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Men Updated (9780310875420) and Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Updated Video Study (9780310875734), both sold separately.

Genres: Christian, Marriage

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 27, 2015

About the author

#1 New York Times best-selling authors, Les and Leslie. A husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. In 1991, the Parrotts founded the Center for Relationship Development on the campus of Seattle Pacific University - a groundbreaking program dedicated to teaching the basics of good relationships.

Married in 1984, the Parrotts bring real-life examples to their speaking platform. Their professional training - Leslie as a marriage and family therapist, and Les as a clinical psychologist - ensures a presentation that is grounded, insightful and cutting-edge.

The Parrotts are New York Times #1 Best Selling Authors. Their books include the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, Love Talk, Real Relationships, The Parent You Want to Be, The Hour That Matters Most and Crazy Good Sex.

Each year Les and Leslie speak in over 40 cities. Their audiences include a wide array of venues, from churches to Fortune 500 company board rooms. Their books have sold over two million copies in more than two dozen languages.

The Parrotts have been guests on many national TV and radio programs such as CNN, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The View with Barbara Walters, NBC Nightly News, and Oprah. Their work has been featured in USA Today and The New York Times.

Visit their website for lots of free resources at www.LesandLeslie.com

Reviews

[Veronica Foley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great activities. Very helpful. Definitely recommend this book to those who are considering marriage and who are already married.

[Kristen U · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am rating this book as a 2 stars for a couple of reasons. 1) the book is constantly making reference to this assessment 2) in order to take the assessment you have to connect with one of their approve/ trained sponsors 3) at least in my area it’s been a real challenge to get the counselors in my area to call me back. I even write the customer support email on their website they apologized that I was having trouble getting in touch with someone in my area. Recommended someone to me and they too never wrote me back!

I will not say the book is useless without out the assessment but I will say it constantly makes reference to it. It’s kind of like watching a sequel that constantly makes reference to the first movie that you have not watched. You can make it through but there will be a lot of gaps.

[Chelsea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prepare for some “hot monogamy.” Haha - something they said in one of their videos I believe. They also said, “There never has been a marriage like yours and there never will be.” I would highly recommend doing the SYMBIS test with premarital counselors and then doing this workbook with the videos with your fiancé and a small group. SO helpful. It gave guidance through talking about a myriad of topics and brought up great discussions during our homework time we did together and then back together with our small group. It’s something we will refer back to as we practice the things we were taught. I would suggest pairing this with a devotional or set prayer times, as there was less verses or prayer times than I had thought there would be. But it still was great! They also have a series about entering a second marriage for those looking for that. I’ve heard good things.