Making Marriage Easier: How to Love (and Like) Your Spouse for Life
Arlene PellicanePaperback 2025-02-04
Publisher's Description:
A joyous summons to love (and like) your spouse for a lifetime.
Many people today are pessimistic about marriage. It’s hard. It will end in divorce. If you marry, you exchange romance for responsibility. Yet research tells us the happiest people on the planet are those in healthy marriages.
Can marriage be great—not just for the rare few—but for you? After twenty-five years of marriage, Arlene Pellicane has stories and biblical wisdom to share. Full of real life that will make you laugh, Making Marriage Easier addresses common threats to our marriage—poor communication, tension over differences, lack of physical intimacy, parenting stress, and more.
Four key decisions will help you clarify your values and create a clear path forward. Each short chapter ends with life lessons, questions to ponder with your spouse or in a group, and prayers to strengthen and encourage. Marriage is part of God’s awesome, wonderful plan. It’s meant to be a celebration, not a life sentence.
Whether you’re holding a baby for the first time or figuring out retirement, this book is fresh kindling for a better marriage that can go the distance.
About the Author:
Arlene Pellicane is a speaker, host of the Happy Home podcast, and author of several books, including Parents Rising, Making Marriage Easier, and Screen Kids (coauthored with Dr. Gary Chapman). Arlene has been featured on popular media outlets including The Today Show, Fox & Friends, Focus on the Family, FamilyLife Today, The 700 Club, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the spokesperson for National Marriage Week and has been happily married to her husband, James, for more than 25 years.
Arlene earned her BA from Biola University and her master’s in journalism from Regent University. She inspires parents to raise children who are ready for life (not just playing video games). As an advocate of delaying smartphones and social media, her three children are living a revolutionary digital life and thriving. Arlene lives with her family in San Diego.
Commendations:
“This book is not only a delightful read, but the simple steps inside can also revolutionise your marriage if you put them into practice. Arlene and James have been happily married for more than twenty-five years and they can show you how to enjoy your marriage too.”
—Gary Chapman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages
“Working on your marriage can feel like, well, work. But this book will make it actually feel fun and remind you of why you got married in the first place. If you want to make intimacy easier, communication easier, getting along easier, pick up this book.”
—Shaunti Feldhahn, author of Secrets of Sex and Marriage and For Women Only
“This is the book they should give you before the ink on your marriage licence is dry. If every couple read Making Marriage Easier and actually did the things Arlene suggests, good relationships would get better, bad ones would find the courage to change, and even the most dry or brittle love would begin to flourish and grow.”
—Jodie Berndt, bestselling author of Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage
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Publisher's Description:
A joyous summons to love (and like) your spouse for a lifetime.
Many people today are pessimistic about marriage. It’s hard. It will end in divorce. If you marry, you exchange romance for responsibility. Yet research tells us the happiest people on the planet are those in healthy marriages.
Can marriage be great—not just for the rare few—but for you? After twenty-five years of marriage, Arlene Pellicane has stories and biblical wisdom to share. Full of real life that will make you laugh, Making Marriage Easier addresses common threats to our marriage—poor communication, tension over differences, lack of physical intimacy, parenting stress, and more.
Four key decisions will help you clarify your values and create a clear path forward. Each short chapter ends with life lessons, questions to ponder with your spouse or in a group, and prayers to strengthen and encourage. Marriage is part of God’s awesome, wonderful plan. It’s meant to be a celebration, not a life sentence.
Whether you’re holding a baby for the first time or figuring out retirement, this book is fresh kindling for a better marriage that can go the distance.
About the Author:
Arlene Pellicane is a speaker, host of the Happy Home podcast, and author of several books, including Parents Rising, Making Marriage Easier, and Screen Kids (coauthored with Dr. Gary Chapman). Arlene has been featured on popular media outlets including The Today Show, Fox & Friends, Focus on the Family, FamilyLife Today, The 700 Club, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the spokesperson for National Marriage Week and has been happily married to her husband, James, for more than 25 years.
Arlene earned her BA from Biola University and her master’s in journalism from Regent University. She inspires parents to raise children who are ready for life (not just playing video games). As an advocate of delaying smartphones and social media, her three children are living a revolutionary digital life and thriving. Arlene lives with her family in San Diego.
Commendations:
“This book is not only a delightful read, but the simple steps inside can also revolutionise your marriage if you put them into practice. Arlene and James have been happily married for more than twenty-five years and they can show you how to enjoy your marriage too.”
—Gary Chapman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages
“Working on your marriage can feel like, well, work. But this book will make it actually feel fun and remind you of why you got married in the first place. If you want to make intimacy easier, communication easier, getting along easier, pick up this book.”
—Shaunti Feldhahn, author of Secrets of Sex and Marriage and For Women Only
“This is the book they should give you before the ink on your marriage licence is dry. If every couple read Making Marriage Easier and actually did the things Arlene suggests, good relationships would get better, bad ones would find the courage to change, and even the most dry or brittle love would begin to flourish and grow.”
—Jodie Berndt, bestselling author of Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage