Author Poppy Smith has written a highly-readable work on marriage through a Christian perspective. Her chapters are totally readable and useful as she takes on the realities of marriage. On page 16, she inserts one of her own down-to-earth italicized quotes "We expect to marry...

Once I started reading “Lost Edens” by Jamie Patterson, I couldn’t put it down because I kept hoping I’d turn the page to read that she’d figured out that Ben was a dirty rotten scoundrel and punch him in his cheating face. After all, the...

Men and women can really mess up relationships, can’t they? Sometimes it is an inability to understand the opposite gender and sometimes it is unrealistic expectations. Whatever the cause, authors Roy and Nazira Barry answer the question about whether finding Mr. or Mrs. Right is...

"How To Find The Right Man And Become His Center of Attention: Anyone can find a man . . . Let me show you how to keep him" by Debra Clifton Mitchell is a book all women should read BEFORE they marry. Most women want...

Let’s see a show of hands of how many wives feel that their husbands don’t express themselves or engage in enough conversation. That is most of us, right? Author Tony Hawkins explores this phenomenon in “Married Men Don’t Talk” with the experience of more than...

"Break The Cycle" by Tracy Deitz provides a wealth of knowledge and is a toolbox full of resources for battered women in an abusive relationship, and for women who have had the strength and the courage to leave an abusive relationship. From the first...

"Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child’s True Potential" by Eileen Kennedy-Moore, PhD, and Mark S. Lowenthal, PsyD, explains how and why children struggle and distills “smart” parenting into four essential components: a compassionate ability to view the world through our children’s eyes; the...

From where I’m sitting, there’s no such thing as too many books about marriage. Like authors Brian and Cheryl Brodersen said, the state of marriage today is very sad and 70% of Americans believe divorce is morally acceptable. I think that instead of talking about...

"Does He Cheat" by Sterling Anderson and Stephanie Dart is a book about men who use statements to wives, girlfriends, husbands and boyfriends to hide their actions of being with another woman or man. This book mentions 50 signs of confessions from men that admit...

At first glance a woman might be slighted by this author’s portrayal of marriage. I am a Christian wife, and I believe in the divine order, which is God, man, woman, child. However, some may take this author's portrayal of marriage as moving woman back...