How to make the thorns in your marriage come up roses.

The big and little annoyances in your marriage are actually opportunities to deepen your love for each other. Relationship experts and award-winning authors Les and Leslie Parrott believe that your personal quirks and differences–where you squeeze the toothpaste tube, how you handle money–can actually help draw you together provided you handle them correctly.

Turn your marriage’s prickly issues into opportunities to love each other more as you learn how to:

• build intimacy while respecting personal space
• tap the power of a positive marriage attitude
• replace boredom with fun, irritability with patience, busyness with time together, debt with a team approach to your finances
• . . . and much, much more.

Plus–get an inside look at the very soul of your marriage, and how connecting with God can connect you to each other in ways you never dreamed.

The letters L.O.V.E. represent four personality dimensions that make up your personal “love style.”¬†Once you know your own love style and that of your spouse, you will be able to love him or her in a way that will help you get the love you need in return.

Relationship experts Drs. Les¬†and Leslie Parrott stand on a mountain of research to show you how this single insight can draw you closer together. Never before have we had such an easy-to-use and scientifically proven tool for pinpointing each person’s approach to love. You’ll discover how much these dimensions inform your love style:

• L – Leader: The Take-Charge Spouse
• O – Optimist: The Encouraging Spouse
• V – Validator: The Devoted Spouse
• E – Evaluator: The Careful Spouse

The L.O.V.E. online assessment, in combination with this book, will show you how you are designed to approach everything from communication and conflict to sex and intimacy. This is not your typical marriage book. It’s a practical tool for learning how to express love to your spouse and feel truly loved in return.

A deep yet simple guide to revolutionizing the romance-building communication every thriving marriage needs.

Love Talk is like no other communication book you’ve ever read. The fruit of years of research by two foremost relationship experts (who also happen to be husband and wife), this book forges a new path to the heart of loving conversation. You’ll begin by identifying your security need and determining your personal communication style. Then you’ll put together everything you discover to learn how the two of you can speak each other’s language like never before.

This very day, you can begin an adventure in communication that will draw the two of you closer, and closer, and closer . . . consistently, in a way that creates the depth and connection you long for in your relationship.

Love Talk includes:

• The all-new Better Love Assessment
• The secret to emotional connection
• When not to talk
• A Communications 101 primer
• Practical help for the “silent partner”

Need help kick-starting your conversations? Check out the companion men’s and women’s Love Talk workbooks, as well as Love Talk Starters.

In this updated edition, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott dig below the surface to the depths of human interactions, offering expert advice and practical tools for improving the most important aspect of human life: relationships.

Designed for college students, young adults, singles, and dating couples, this cutting-edge book teaches the basics of healthy relationships, including friendship, dating, sexuality, and relating to God. Newly updated and expanded to include the latest research on relationship building and vital information on social networking, it provides readers with proven tools for making bad relationships better and good relationships great.

A workbook is also available, which contains dozens of self-tests and assessments that will help readers determine their relational readiness, the health of the home they grew up in, their understanding of gender differences, and much more. Real Relationships and the Real Relationships Workbook furnish an honest and timely guide to forming the rich relationships that are life’s greatest treasure.

Every couple has a restless aching, not just to know God individually but to experience God together. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Devotional gives you a road map for cultivating rich spiritual intimacy in your relationship.

Written by the creators of the most widely used pre-marriage program in the world, this devotional includes fifty-two weekly meditations help the two of you grow closer than you’ve ever imagined. Each week you’ll find:

• An insightful devotion focusing on real-life issues
• A key passage of Scripture
• Questions that spark meaningful discussions
• Stories from well-known couples, including Jefferson & Alyssa Bethke, Gary & Karolyn Chapman, Dave & Sharon Ramsey, Francis & Lisa Chan, and Keith & Beth Moore
• A brief prayer that will help you both draw closer together and to God

This book will guide you on your marriage journey to make it all God intends it to be. Start building on the closeness you’ve got today – and reap the rewards of a more satisfying relationship as you enjoy the intimacy of lifelong love together.

Reflection questions are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Build your second marriage on more than a hope and a prayer. Beat the odds and make remarriage the best thing that’s ever happened to you.

Sixty percent of second marriages fail, but yours can be among the ones that succeed. Relationship experts Les and Leslie Parrott show how you can beat the odds with flying colors and build a future together that is everything marriage can and ought to be.

More than a million couples have used the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts to prepare for life-long love. And now, with Saving Your Second Marriage Before It Starts, Les and Leslie have added material for couples where one or both individuals are entering marriage for the second time. In this course you will:

• Face the myths of remarriage
• Learn to communicate with instant understanding
• Discover the secret to resolving conflict
• Master the skills of money management
• Get your sex life off to a great start
• Learn how to blend a family

This comprehensive marriage program is designed specifically for today’s couples by a couple. This study is full of lively exercises and enlightening self-tests that will help couples apply what they are learning directly to their relationship.

Sessions include:

1. Are You Ready to Get Married Again? (14:00)
2. Have You Faced the Myths of Remarriage with Honesty? (29:00)
3. Can You Identify Your Love Style? (30:00)
4. Have You Developed the Habit of Happiness? (19:00)
5. Can You Say What You Mean and Understand What You Hear? (19:00)
6. Have You Bridged the Gender Gap? (21:00.)
7. Do You Know How to Fight a Good Fight? (32:00)
8. Do You Know How to Blend a Family? (15:00)
9. Are You and Your Partner Soul Mates? (15:00)

Coordinating study guide available separately.

The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook’s direct narration of a book’s text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.

A comprehensive resource to help churches build a thriving marriage mentoring program.

Les and Leslie Parrott are passionate about how marriage mentoring can transform couples, families, and entire congregations.

In The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring, you will find life-changing insights and essential skills for:

• Preparing engaged and newlywed couples
• Maximizing marriages from good to great
• Repairing marriages in distress

 

Les and Leslie offer practical guidelines that help mentors and couples work together as a team, agree on outcomes, and develop skills for the marriage mentoring process. The book includes appendixes that provide a wealth of additional resources and tools.

The Complete Guide to Marriage Mentoring is an exhaustive resource for marriage mentorship in any church setting, and this guide also includes insights from interviews with church leaders and marriage mentors from around the country. A self-test, accompanying visuals, and appendixes are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Choose the parent you’ll be–and you choose the child you’ll raise.

When it comes to parenting, who you are is more important than what you do. After all, your child internalizes your traits more than anyone else’s on the planet. And that’s why Les and Leslie Parrott–in a parenting book like no other–give you a proven plan for cultivating the traits you most want your child to have.

Discover:

• the most important question you’ll ever ask as a parent
• the three-step method to avoid being the parent you don’t want to be
• the secret to making your “intentional traits” stick on even your worst days
• . . . and much more.

A husband and wife team made up of two of today’s leading relationship experts, Les and Leslie Parrott reveal their personal experiences as parents to help you fulfill the most important calling you will ever have. The Parent You Want to Be is inspiring, warm, and filled with a transformational power for your entire family.

To understand your spouse, you’ve got to walk in his or her shoes. Ever feel like you’re stepping on each other’s toes? Then maybe it’s time you put yourselves in each other’s shoes. Of course that may sound uncomfortable. But it’s easier than you think–and it will revolutionize your relationship.

In fact, bestselling authors Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott reveal the little-known secrets of putting the time-tested strategy of trading places to work in your own marriage. In this book, chock-full of practical helps and tips you’ve never thought of, you’ll learn the three-step strategy to trading places and, as a result, you’re sure to:

• Increase your levels of passion
• Bolster your commitment
• Eliminate nagging
• Short-circuit conflict
• Double your laughter
• Forgive more quickly
• Talk more intimately

This book also features a powerful, free online assessment that instantly improves your inclination to trade places. Most couples never discover the rewards of trading places. For example, did you know it’s the quickest way to get your own needs met? It’s true! And Les and Leslie show you how. They also disclose exactly how trading places improves your conversations and how it’s guaranteed to fire up your sex life.

Truly, your love life and your entire marriage will never be the same after you learn the intimate dance of trading places.

Feeling overscheduled and underconnected as a couple? Relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you connect your time styles–and your hearts–so you can better manage your time. This is not a book about being more productive, but a book about being more connected with your spouse and maximizing the moments you have together.

After resolving communication meltdowns, finding time together is the number one relational need of most couples. Where does it go? We try to make it. Save it. Seize it. Buy it. And borrow it. And yet time continues to elude too many couples. At the heart of this book is the renowned Better Love Assessment, which helps you uncover your unique time style: Accommodator, Processor, Dreamer, or Planner. Once you know your time style and that of your spouse, this book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results. Your Time-Starved Marriage helps you:

• Dispel the two lies every time-starved couple believes.
• Maximize the minutes that matter most in your marriage.
• Recoup the time you’ve been leaving on the table.
• Understand why “loving on borrowed time” is lethal to your love life.
• And discover how to “get a grip on the time of your life.”

Your Time-Starved Marriage gives you tools to feed your time-starved relationship, enjoying time with each other more than you ever imagined.

Workbooks also available.