Talking Helps Prepare You for Marriage

Whitney Hopler

If you're engaged, you're likely busy with a plethora of logistical details - planning the wedding ceremony and reception, arranging the honeymoon, looking for a place to live. Amid all that busyness, however, take the time to talk as often as you can with your future spouse. The time you invest talking now should pay you great returns once you're married.
Here are some ways you can talk with each other to prepare yourselves well for marriage:

Adapted from Let's Talk Marriage: A Guide for Couples Preparing to Marry by F. Dean Lueking, copyright 2001 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., www.eerdmans.com, 1-800-253-7521.

F. Dean Lueking is retired from the pastorate at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, Ill. He spends half of each year teaching Lutheran seminarians in Bratislava, Slovakia, and working as a pastoral counselor with the nonprofit organization Opportunity International in Russia and the Balkans.

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