__Can a happy marriage really last a lifetime?__   
One-third of all married couples divorce before their ten-year anniversary. They struggle to overcome unmet expectations, unanticipated conflict, and disagreements about money, sex, children, and more. In this practical and hopeful book, licensed marriage and family therapist Laura Taggart helps young couples stay on the right side of this statistic. Making Love Last guides them to examine their true expectations for marriage, provides six action steps for improving the way they relate, and gives them a new picture of what it means to enjoy marriage for a lifetime. Each chapter includes discussion questions for couples or small groups as well as additional questions for personal reflection.  
  
"A practical and wise guide on a crucial subject."--__John Ortberg__, senior pastor of Menlo Church; author of All the Places to Go  
  
"Falling in love is easy! Yet, as many of us well know, staying happily married over a lifetime is another story. . . . If you once were madly in love but now find yourself drifting toward relational disappointment and disillusionment, take heart, because wonderful help begins just a few pages away."--from the foreword by __Milan and Kay Yerkovich__, authors of How We Love   
  
  
__Laura Taggart__ has been a licensed marriage and family therapist for nearly thirty years. As director of marriage and family ministry at Community Presbyterian Church in Danville, California, she founded a highly successful marriage mentoring ministry to help young couples develop a solid foundation for their young and often struggling marriages. A popular speaker at conferences and retreats, she has also taught as an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. Learn more at www.laurataggart.com.

__Laura Taggart__ has been a licensed marriage and family therapist for nearly thirty years. As director of marriage and family ministry at Community Presbyterian Church in Danville, California, she founded a highly successful marriage mentoring ministry to help young couples develop a solid foundation for their young and often struggling marriages. A popular speaker at conferences and retreats, she has also taught as an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary.

With thirty years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Laura Taggart understands the unique struggles of newly married couples who find marriage much more difficult than they imagined. Failed expectations, unanticipated conflict, and disagreements about money, sex, children, and more have many young couples assuming they made a mistake, married the wrong person, or just weren't ready. As a result, one-third of all married couples divorce before their ten-year anniversary.  
  
In this practical and hopeful book, Taggart offers the wisdom and help she would share as a counselor with a couple beginning their marriage. She helps couples examine their true expectations for marriage, provides six action steps for improving the way couples relate, and gives couples a new picture of what it means to enjoy marriage for a lifetime.  
Each chapter includes discussion questions for couples or small groups as well as additional questions for personal reflection.

A licensed marriage and family therapist offers couples practical tools for building healthy patterns during the often difficult early years of marriage.

Taggart, Laura

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Endorsements

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Reimagining Marriage—Changing the Way You Think

1. Why Marriage Is Hard Work

2. More Than You Imagined

3. Why Marriage Is Worth It

Part 2: Revitalizing Marriage—Changing the Way You Relate

4. Search Yourself

5. Embrace Differences

6. Tackle Conflict

7. Let Go

8. Lean In

9. Initiate Intimacy

Part 3: Re-visioning Marriage—Changing the Way You Love

10. The Power of a Promise

11. Marriage as a Catalyst for Change

12. Better Together

Appendix A: Feeling Words

Appendix B: Sample List of Protectors

Appendix C: Renewal of Covenant Marriage

Appendix D: Beginning a Personal Relationship with God

Appendix E: Infographic of Survey Results

Notes

About the Author

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Like any good insurance policy, this book exists to help you protect the future of your marriage by helping you avoid pitfalls that could lead to divorce.

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