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The Five Love Languages "How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
Author: Gary Chapman 
How different people express love in different ways. Unhappiness in marriage often has a simple root cause: we speak different love languages.
Publisher:  Northfield Publishing
ISBN:        1-881273-15-6

Discoveries of a Marriage "Seven Ways to Love and Understanding"
Author: Lois Leiderman Davitz and Joel R. Davitz
This book offers seven discoveries of happy marriages from psychologists who are married to each other and who have devoted their professional lives to studying marriage. The authors invite you to reflect on questions that will enhance your own paths to increased love.
Publisher:  Paulist Press
ISBN:       0-8091-4466-2

Promises to Keep "Developing the Skills of Marriage"
Author: Kathleen R. Fischer and Thomas N. Hart
The aim of this book is to help couples cultivate the attitudes and skills needed for a happy marriage. The authors draw on their own married experience and that of the couples they have worked with in counseling and marriage enrichment. The first chapter lays out the spiritual vision and each succeeding chapter focuses on practicalities, with spirituality in the background.
Publisher:  Paulist Press
ISBN:        0-8091-3288-5

The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work
Author: John M. Gottman and Nan Silver
Seven research based principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship.
Publisher:  Three Rivers Press
ISBN:        0-609-80579-7

12 Hours to a Great Marriage "A Step-by-Step Guide for Making Love Last "
Author: Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley, Natalie H. Jenkins,
Susan L. Blumberg, Carol Whiteley
Using baseball analogies, offers simple and effective strategies based on the PREP approach to help couples develop and protect their love, easily and at their own pace.
Publisher:  Jossey-Bass
ISBN:         0-7879-6900-5

Fighting for Your Marriage "Positive Steps for Preventing Divorce and Preserving a Lasting Love, New and Revised"
Author: Howard J. Markman, Scott M. Stanley, and Susan L. Blumberg
Strategies based on the PREP approach to help couples to handle conflict more effectively, protect their happiness, and reduce the odds of breaking up.
Publisher:  Jossey-Bass
ISBN:        0-7879-5744-5

Empowering Couples
Author: David Olson, Amy Olson
Based on the PREPARE/ENRICH Program, this workbook focuses on building on couple strengths, identify stumbling blocks, and develop communication and conflict resolution skills.
Publisher:  Life Innovations, Inc.
ISBN:        0-9671983-2-1

A Catholic Guide for Lifelong Marriage "For Better...Forever!"
Author: Gregory Popcak, MSW, LCSW
By showing how all marriages must move along "The Relationship Pathway," from less fulfilling to exceptional, Popcak offers down-to-earth ideas and suggestions for keeping marriages alive and vital long after the wedding ceremony.
Publisher:  Our Sunday Visitor, Inc.
ISBN:        0-87973-688-7

The Husband Handbook
Author: William E. Rabior and David Wachowiak
This handbook provides steps for effective communication, anger management, and better sex. Practical and based on real life experience, each chapter reflects the evolutionary process of marriage.
Publisher:  Liguori
ISBN:        978-0-7648-1745-8

Between People "Communicating One-to-One"
Author: John A. Sanford
This is a concise and helpful book for those who want to improve their skills at one-to-one communication. The author discusses how honest communication differs from "making pronouncements," how to listen, how to deal with avoidance, and how to read body language.
Publisher:  Paulist Press
ISBN:        0-8091-2440-8

Three to Get Married
by Fulton J. Sheen
Bishop Sheen's classic on love and marriage—straightforward, fresh, even blunt—places sex in the context of love, and human love in the context of divine love.
Publisher:  Scepter Publishers, Inc.  
ISBN:        0-933932-87-1