Use these saving marriage resources to start healing your marriage today.

Saving Your Marriage with PREP – Marriage Communication
    Most hurting marriages can heal provided negative communication is kept to a minimum.  Learning valuable communication skills will strengthen and enhance your marriage in ways you never thought possible.

What is PREP? *
    PREP (Preventions and Relationship Enhancement Program) is one of the most respected divorce-prevention/marriage communication programs.  It is a skills-based program based on empirical research.  PREP has a proven track record of strengthening marriages.  Studies have shown that after five years of marriage, PREP training is considerably more effective than both Marriage Encounter and regular Pre-Cana courses.  Want to learn a simple way on how to handle marital differences without destroying your relationship?  PREP is designed for both engaged couples as well as already married couples.

A Lasting Promise:  A Christian Guide to Fighting for Your Marriage *
This book is a (non-denominational) Christian guide to PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program).

The book shows how to strengthen marital communication by teaching couples (engaged or married for years) how to minimize harmful verbal conflict using the speaker-listener technique. How you handle verbal conflict in marital communication is one of the most important predictors of the well-being of your marriage. University studies have verified the extraordinary effectiveness of PREP in preventing divorce and healing hurting marriages.  More.

The ABC’s of Choosing a Good Wife (Husband)
(Communication skills discussed in these chapters)
The ABC’s of Choosing a Good Wife     (Chapter 15; pgs 73 – 75)
The ABC’s of Choosing a Good Husband     (Chapter 15; pgs 95 – 98)

Christian Fatherhood
One Final Secret;
pgs 69 – 72

   Fighting fairly means couples need to target the problem…not each other.  Couples need to learn conflict resolution skills to deal with the inevitable differences that arise in marriage.
    Couples should also learn how to fight for their marriage. PREP (Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) teaches communication skills and provides training to teach couples how to deal with relationship problems.  PREP has demonstrated effectiveness in preventing divorce and reducing strains in stressed marriages.
    Tame the tongue – since the tongue so often leads the way into discord, it’s wise for every Christian couple to pray daily for control of the tongue.  (Steve Wood, ABC’s of Choosing a Good Wife, Family Life Center Publications, 2003)

Help for Hurting Marriages

*PREP

*Links marked with an asterisk are to web sites requiring discernment, but nevertheless offer substantial help to individuals and families.