This book for newlyweds is needed and tremendously helpful. It contains timely challenges and encouragements as well as relevant instructions for people at every stage of marriage, though its material is especially relevant for newlyweds. Having been in ministry and having had the privilege of performing the premarital counseling as well as the weddings of numerous people over the past sixty-two years, I wish that this book had been available to give to all these couples as they began their marriages. Marriages that begin right are much more likely to continue right. And I highly recommend this book as a vital part of that good beginning.
This book wisely addresses the most significant challenges that many young Christian married couples face in a way that is both practical and biblical. My wife and I are eager to give this resource to the young husbands and wives whom we have been counseling. It is fun to read and would make a great couples' devotional.
In the early years of marriage, the cement of convictions and culture dries quickly. That’s why this book is urgently needed. Sean and Spencer have done a masterful job of serving newlyweds—heck, of serving any married couple—by tracing a straight line between the romance that we desire and the beliefs that we should treasure. The result is a tool that will help to build solid foundations for durable marriages.
The early years of marriage can be some of the sweetest—and some of the hardest. This book is a gold mine for every young couple! Built on a foundation of the gospel, it offers practical and honest advice on issues such as finances, sexual intimacy, communication, conflict, and more. You don’t have to navigate these challenging areas alone. Do your marriage a huge favor and grab a copy of this helpful book.
Sean and Spencer have hit another home run with their third in a series of important books meant to equip couples for the steps of their relationship from dating to marriage. While many books focus on marriage in general, Sean and Spencer have provided an eminently readable, thoroughly biblical, and altogether practical book for couples who are specifically in their first years of marriage. Brimming with wisdom and insight that they have gained from their pastoral and counseling experience, this resource will be one you will surely pass along to young married couples for years to come.
This book is rich wisdom about the complex situations that surround the first year of marriage. Its words come from faithful men who have walked this road with grace and are eager to pass on what they have learned to you. This resource is an investment in your marriage that will pay dividends for decades.
Letters to a Romantic: First Years of Marriage is a remarkable resource. It manages to be both extremely practical and persistently gospel focused. The plain, unembarrased, and open discussions about sex alone are a must-read. But Harmon and Perron go beyond the obvious essentials of sex, money, and in-laws and zoom in as well on matters like hospitality, godly approaches to rest and entertainment, and how to love a spouse who is doubting their faith. Whether you consider yourself a "romantic" or not, this book will strengthen every young marriage—and I can personally report that its wisdom is strengthening at least one older marriage, too!
This book combines biblical instruction and practical observations made by men who are discovering how to build a marriage for the long haul. I believe nearlyweds and newlyweds will find it especially helpful. My favorite aspect of this book is the enthusiasm, passion, and positivity about marriage and family that permeate every page.
This book is biblically rich and also very practical. It will step on your toes in a good way. Again and again Sean and Spencer take us to the heart of the matter of marriage: the heart. I gladly commend this work to those who desire to live out a faithful and Christ-centered marriage together.
The patterns of the first few months of married life soon—for better or worse—harden into habits. These habits set trajectories that can take a couple far from where they want to be in many areas of their relationship. This book can help to break bad habits in a marriage and then reshape them into routines that are more glorifying to God and satisfying to a couple.
There are many books on marriage and premarital issues, but not many that are specifically for newlywed couples. Harmon and Perron take the reader on a contemplative stroll up and down the aisle of relevant topics they may face. The areas that they address and in which they offer encouragement are both specific and applicable. They walk the reader through what God’s relevant and sufficient Word says on these issues and have developed an effective tool for counseling the newlywed—one that will be a valuable addition to the counselor’s toolbox.
As they have in their other volumes, Sean and Spencer root the realities of romance in Scripture's relevance for daily life. Seasoned by their early years of marriage, these two men are desperate for you to taste of the richness of God’s Word, which has proven itself to be a sturdy and strong foundation for marriage. With pastoral clarity, they help young couples to consider the importance of the patterns and rhythms they establish in their early years and to make them a worthy investment that will help their later years to be all the more sweet. I can say, as someone who has been married for twenty years and now has six children, that their advice is wise beyond their years and provides a practical guide for true romance that will flourish and sweeten with every passing year.
