Best Marriage Books

Discover the key to transforming millions of relationships worldwide in this #1 New York Times bestseller. Dr. Gary Chapman shares his proven approach to showing and receiving love, offering practical and insightful wisdom to deepen intimacy with your partner. Updated to reflect the complexities of modern relationships, this book includes a personal assessment to help you discover your love language and that of your loved one. Whether your relationship is flourishing or struggling, The 5 Love Languages can help bring you to deeper levels of intimacy starting today.

This book offers the seven essential principles for making a marriage work, based on years of research by a psychology professor and marriage expert. The author provides couples with practical and profound strategies for paying attention to each other and creating a strong foundation for conflict resolution. The book includes exercises and questionnaires proven to strengthen marriages and create shared meaning.

Discover the secrets to a happy marriage with this bestselling book that has sold over one million copies! Based on scientific and biblical research, Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs teaches couples how to talk, think, and treat each other with love and respect. Learn why wives need to feel loved and husbands need to feel respected, and how meeting these needs can bring peace, closeness, and fulfillment to your marriage. Perfect for couples, individuals, and groups, Love & Respect is a must-read for anyone looking to experience marriage the way God intended.

Discover the keys to long-lasting happiness in marriage with this insightful book by a renowned pastor and his wife. Using the Bible as a guide, they challenge modern-day assumptions about romance and divorce to show that the true meaning of marriage is to bring us closer to God and bring more joy to our lives. Whether you're single, skeptical, engaged, or a long-time married couple, this book will inspire and guide you towards a successful and fulfilling marriage. Essential reading for those who want to deepen their love and understanding in life.

Discover how your marriage can be more than just a sacred covenant with this spiritual guide. Sacred Marriage explores the idea that God's primary intent for your marriage isn't just to make you happy, but holy. This updated edition offers practical tools and insights from scripture, church history, and Christian classics to help married Christians become holier husbands and wives. Learn how marriage can bring you closer to God and others, and become a doorway to a more spiritually fulfilling life.

Transform your relationship and discover a lasting source of love and companionship with this bestselling guide. Recommended by therapists and couples worldwide, this book helps you revive romance and remove negativity, listen to your partner, heal childhood experiences, and achieve a common vision for your dream relationship. With a new forward and chapter, this fully revised edition combines psychology, therapy, and neuroscience to help you and your partner connect on a deeper level and experience the joy of a fulfilling relationship.

Discover the secret behind successful couples therapy in this groundbreaking book supported by science. Emotionally Focused Therapy views love relationships as an attachment bond and has become widely popular among therapists worldwide. In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson introduces Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. By focusing on key moments in a relationship and using them as touch points for seven healing conversations, couples can learn to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With illuminating advice and practical exercises based on case studies from her practice, couples will discover how to heal and enrich their relationships for a lifetime of love.

Discover the ten most vital needs of men and women in relationships with this classic bestseller. The author provides practical guidance for husbands and wives to fulfill their partner's needs, become irresistible to one another, and love more creatively and sensitively. This revised and expanded edition emphasizes the importance of intimate emotional needs in marriage and offers strategies to prevent extramarital affairs.

Explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire with a bold and provocative new take on intimacy and sex. This therapist's bestselling book draws on over 20 years of experience to examine the complexities of sustaining desire in long-term relationships. With case studies and lively discussion, discover how to bring playful and even poetic sex back home. Wise, witty, and revelatory, Mating in Captivity will transform the way you live and love.

Discover how to understand your partner's brain and build a romantic relationship based on love and trust with "Wired for Love." Drawing from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, this book presents ten guiding principles that can strengthen any relationship. Learn how to create a safe "couple bubble," stay connected with morning and evening rituals, and fight so that nobody loses. With simple gestures and words, you can neurologically prime your brain for greater love and fewer conflicts. Essential reading for couples and anyone interested in the complex dynamics of intimate relationships.