Books to Read Before Getting Married

There are two ways to approach getting married. One is to jump in and get your hands dirty and make your mistakes and possibly see it all fall apart before you really know what you’re doing. Another is to read and learn from other people’s mistakes before you make them yourself. If you are looking for some books that can help your marriage, here are a few suggestions.

Traditional and Christian Advice

A Handbook for Engaged Couples is a great, pared-down workbook to help couples transition from the single life to married life, and offers good advice for working out many of the most important details. It even has chapters that can be used as a newlywed guide for walking you through your first months together.

The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask before You Say “I Do” is exactly what it promises. It’s a way to engage with many of the issues that could potentially tear your marriage apart before you decide to take the plunge.

The Nest: Newlywed Handbook is as its title says a handbook for newlyweds, but many people find it a great “primer” for marriage that helps them hit the ground running after their wedding.

The Five Love Languages is a Christian book that comes highly recommended from people of all faiths (and none). It’s about the different ways that people communicate love and how to understand the way your beloved is speaking to you.

For Modern Marriage and Beyond

What Is Marriage for? Is a philosophical look at the history of marriage from the standpoint of same-sex couples who are trying to find the meaning of their marriage outside the traditional confines of the institution.

How to Be a Couple and Still Be Free is a long-respected manual for people who want to join in a marriage of equals and have their own lives despite being married.

If the Buddha Married is a guide for people who want to walk a spiritual path together. It’s not entirely about Buddhism, per se, but about the search for Truth together.

The Ethical Slut is a guide for people who want an open relationship of many different types. It also helps people deal with jealousies and repairing marriage after infidelity.

These books will help anyone who is considering marriage to figure out what they want their marriage to look like and how to make it work.

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