10 Great Dates Before You Say 'I Do'

10 Great Dates Before You Say 'I Do'
Brown, Natelle
$18.99

10 Fun, Innovative Relationship-Building Dates for Seriously Dating and Engaged Couples!

10 Great Dates Before You Say "I Do" combines the best of marriage preparation research with a fun, easy-to-follow format. Couples will love growing together while going out together:

  • Share your hopes and dreams
  • Appreciate your differences
  • Communicate and connect
  • Develop spiritual intimacy
  • Evaluate your relationship
  • Celebrate romance
  • And more!
  • ISBN/SKU: 
    9780310247326
    Publication Date: 
    2003-02-03
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    101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person: Helping Singles Find Each Other, Contemplate Marriage, and Say I Do

    101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person: Helping Singles Find Each Other, Contemplate Marriage, and Say I Do
    Kerekes, Betsy
    $13.95

    Are you confused about how to find your true love? Do you want to work on a current dating relationship, preparing it for engagement and marriage?

    Packed into 101 bite-sized suggestions, 101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person is the help you need to approach dating with confidence and joy, while at the same time helping you become the best, most marriage-ready version of yourself. Jennifer Roback Morse and Betsy Kerekes offer inspiration and advice for all stages of your relationship.

    With research conducted by the Ruth Institute and almost fifty years of marriage experience between them, authors Jennifer Roback Morse and Betsy Kerekes have compiled their best tips to inspire and support Catholic singles during all stages of dating and engagement. The life-changing ideas in 101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person offer short, practical suggestions that will help you find a mate and build a strong relationship.

    You'll find advice for meeting other Catholic singles, questions to ask yourself before getting too serious, and topics to talk about before engagement. Tips include:

  • When you're on the first date, or once you're in a relationship, see the other person for who they are. Avoid thinking you can change him or her; only God can do that.
  • Don't expect your significant other to be perfect when you know that you are not.
  • If you're interested in someone who isn't Catholic, have an open discussion about how you each expect faith to impact your relationship and potential marriage.
  • Morse and Kerekes clearly articulate the challenges that face single Catholics today. The hook-up and cohabitation culture is prevalent in our society and in the media, making the temptation to succumb strong. The authors want you to know that you aren't weak for being interested in these options, but you are strong enough to resist them. You can combat these challenges by recognizing single life and dating as ideal times to discern your own call to the vocation of marriage as well as your dating relationship's readiness for the sacrament.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781594716713
    Publication Date: 
    2016-10-10
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    Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships

    Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
    Townsend, John
    $19.99

    Insights for romance to help you grow in freedom, honesty, and self-control as you pursue healthy dating limits that can lead to a happy marriage.

    How do you set smart limits on your physical relationship? How much do you get involved financially? And how do you know if you've found your future spouse? Dating can be fun, but it's not always easy to navigate the questions and intricacies along the way.

    In Boundaries in Dating, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries, share their practical advice for adding healthy boundaries to your dating life.

    Full of insightful, real-life examples, this book will give you the tools you need to:

  • Recognize and choose quality over perfection in a dating partner.
  • Prioritize friendship within your relationship.
  • Preserve friendships by separating between platonic relationships and romantic interest.
  • Move past denial to handle real relational problems in a realistic and hopeful way.
  • Enjoy this season of life.
  • Boundaries in Dating unfolds a wise, biblical path to developing self-control, freedom, and intimacy. Let Drs. Cloud and Townsend help you get to know yourself, solve problems, and enjoy the journey of dating and finding your life partner.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9780310200345
    Publication Date: 
    2000-02-21
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    Catholic Girl's Survival Guide for the Single Years: The Nuts and Bolts of Staying Sane and Happy While Waiting on Mr. Right

    Catholic Girl's Survival Guide for the Single Years: The Nuts and Bolts of Staying Sane and Happy While Waiting on Mr. Right
    $16.95

    Finding a spouse has never been easy. But, it's also never been quite so hard, especially for good Catholic girls intent on having strong Catholic marriages to nice Catholic boys.

    So what are all those good Catholic girls to do? How do they navigate the increasingly long (and usually trying) years between college and "I do" without losing their sanity or their soul?

    Consult The Catholic Girl's Survival Guide for the Single Years: The Nuts and Bolts of Staying Sane and Happy While Waiting for Mr. Right.

    Steeped in the Church's teachings on the feminine genius, marriage, and theology of the body, The Catholic Girl's Survival Guide dishes with both wit and wisdom on some of the most pressing questions single women face: vocation, dating, sex, finances, work, depression, and more.

    As hopeful and honest as it is fun and faithful, The Catholic Girl's Survival Guide for the Single Years is the perfect companion for women whose journey to "I do" is turning out to be a longer one than they (or their mothers) would have liked.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781937155346
    Publication Date: 
    2012-01-01
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    Christian Dating in a Godless World

    Christian Dating in a Godless World
    Morrow, Fr Thomas
    $18.95

    It's typical these days for a couple to meet, sleep together after the third date, and then get married within two years.

    If you're satisfied with this, then I don't think you'll like this book. But if you think the dating scene has gone awry and would prefer that your relationships fortify rather than undermine your dignity and self-respect, then this book is for you.

    In these pages, the wise Fr. Morrow will help you create a plan of action for your dating life that is drawn from his own dating experience (he entered the seminary at age 34 after many years of dating) and from his considerable pastoral work as a chaplain for Christian singles groups.

    He'll show you what to look for in a potential spouse - and the tell-tale signs that you should walk away now. You'll learn how to get rid of a bad date, and you'll discover the one thing that stands out among all successful relationships. Fr. Morrow will show you how to tame your senses and temper your imaginati

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781622823116
    Publication Date: 
    2016-03-08
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    Dating Detox

    Dating Detox
    Cotter, Kevin And Lisa
    $14.95

    If we want love, why do we often settle for less?
    -- from the Foreword by Jason and Crystalina Evert

    Tired of toxic relationships, many young adults want to clean up their love lives. They desire to give their lives to Christ and turn away from sin--but without a concrete plan, they quickly fall back into old habits. Featuring daily reflections and resolutions, this forty-day detox provides a practical cleanse for those who want to purify themselves from the poisoned dating culture and live a life of authentic freedom, respect, and love.

    Inside you'll find:

  • Compelling and clear explanations of God's plans for love, dating, and sex
  • Hopeful true-life stories of people who have successfully moved from desiring chastity to actually living it
  • Practical tools, habits, and strategies to live more virtuously with joy and freedom
  • ISBN/SKU: 
    9780997203790
    Publication Date: 
    2016-12-22
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    For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women (Revised, Updated)

    For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women (Revised, Updated)
    Feldhahn, Jeff
    $15.99
    Finally, you can understand her! This updated edition of the groundbreaking classic explains how to achieve better communication with your girlfriend, fiancée, or wife--from the authors of For Women Only. More than 2 million copies sold in the series!

    "Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn have unearthed a treasure chest of insights that are not only eye-opening, but life-changing."--Andy Stanley, senior pastor, North Point Community Church

    If you're like most men, you've burned up lots of energy trying to figure out what a woman wants, what makes her tick, how to make her happy.

    The good news: success is simpler than you ever thought. In For Men Only, Jeff and Shaunti Feldhahn reveal the eye-opening truths and simple acts that will radically improve your relationship with the woman you love. For example:

    - Why she can't "just not think about" something that's bothering her
    - How to get her real answers without games
    - How your provider instinct can actually cause her heartache--and what to do about it
    - Why listening to her feelings is so hard for a guy, and a fix-it plan that works
    - Why her "I do" at the altar will always mean, "do you?" and the answer that rocks her world

    Now updated with the latest scientific research to explain the fabulous female brain plus an all-new chapter that shows how to decode her most baffling behavior, For Men Only is your roadmap to making her happy.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781601424457
    Publication Date: 
    2013-03-19
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    Love That Satisfies

    Love That Satisfies
    West, Christopher
    $14.95
    Building on the legacy of Pope John Paul II, it is significant that the first encyclical letter of Pope Benedict XVI is dedicated to the topic God is Love. The Holy Father demonstrates that it is agape, the self-sacrificial love of God that empowers romantic love, eros, with life-giving and meaningful existence. In The Love That Satisfies, Christopher West draws from the Pope s letter a series of insightful and inspiring reflections on the nature of eros, agape, and the relationship between the two. He shows that it is through recognizing and embracing the beauty of God s self-sacrificial love that a person is able to truly be satisfied. In uniting the love of God to the love of spouse, the nuptial bond is fulfilled. Perhaps even more profound is the reality that God and the Bridegroom of the Church has a personal love for his Bride that may certainly be called eros (Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, n. 9).
    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781950784929
    Publication Date: 
    2021-07-27
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    Prayers for Couples Pocket Prayer Book

    Prayers for Couples Pocket Prayer Book
    $2.95

    These tiny but mighty books feature the world's most popular Catholic prayers. With large, easy-to-read type, this pocket book is a perfect prayer resource that can fit in the palm of your hand.

    Includes prayers to find a spouse, prayers of engaged and married couples, a marriage litany, prayer for healing after an argument, and more. Features reflections on Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, a selection of humorous marital anecdotes, and even the lyrics to some classic love songs.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781617962660
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    Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why? (Revised)

    Sacred Search: What If It's Not about Who You Marry, But Why? (Revised)
    Thomas, Gary
    $17.99
    Bestselling author Gary Thomas transforms the way you look at romantic relationships. His unique perspective on dating will prepare you for a satisfying, spiritually enriching marriage.

    In the revised edition of his hit book The Sacred Search, Gary Thomas helps single people of all ages make wise marital choices by rethinking what basis those choices should be made on.

    You will be encouraged to think beyond finding your "soul mate" and instead adopt a more biblical search for a "sole mate"--someone who will walk with you on your spiritual journey.

    Thomas asks, What if we focused on why we should get married more than on who to marry? What if being "in love" isn't a good enough reason to get married? And most of all, what if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?

    The Sacred Search casts a vision for building a relationship around shared spiritual mission--and making marriage with eternity at its heart.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9780830781911
    Publication Date: 
    2021-04-01
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    Single for a Greater Purpose: A Hidden Joy in the Catholic Church

    Single for a Greater Purpose: A Hidden Joy in the Catholic Church
    $18.95

    Single life isn't always the unhappy lot of those who just can't seem to find a spouse. On the contrary, it can be a holy vocation within the lay state lived out, often in a hidden way, by souls who have had an authentic encounter with Christ.

    Here, author Luanne Zurlo sheds light on this little-understood vocation discerned and embraced by a small but growing number of single persons who neither marry nor enter religious life.

    These souls are joyfully single for a greater purpose, nourishing both the world and the Church with the unique spiritual strengths and graces that God gives to souls who deliberately remain single for Him "€" in the world but not of it.

    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781622826568
    Publication Date: 
    2019-12-15
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    Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

    Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
    $17.99
    More than 100,000 copies sold

    "Without rival, the best book on broken sexuality I have ever read." --Dan B. Allender, PhD

    Many of us feel ashamed and undesirable after years of sexual brokenness and addiction. The guilt and stigma surrounding sexual struggles can paralyze us and keep us from seeking help and healing. Author Jay Stringer approaches these sensitive subjects with gentleness and understanding.

    Based on original research from over 3,800 men and women, Unwanted is a groundbreaking resource that explores the "why" behind self-destructive sexual choices in order to help readers work towards freedom. Addressing difficult issues with compassionate insight, this book discusses:

  • Abandonment and broken relationships
  • Trauma and sexual abuse
  • The sex industry and pornography
  • Violence against women
  • Learning to love and care for yourself
  • Healthy conflict and repair in your relationships
  • Investing in community
  • Creating healthy boundaries

  • A perfect resource for those seeking self-help or those working to minister to the sexually broken people around them, Unwanted offers life-changing, practical guidance rooted in clinical evidence to light the way on a path to wholeness.

    "If you're hungry for deep healing or searching for practical ways to help others heal . . . this will be an incredibly sharp tool in your tool belt!" --Shannon Ethridge, MA, author of Every Woman's Battle


    "
    Unwanted demonstrates a depth of insight and wisdom that I found stunning! It will truly help many come out of their shame and finally be free." --Dr. Ted Roberts, cofounder of Pure Desire Ministries


    "
    Unwanted is a courageous, insightful work that will undoubtedly equip many on the journey to freedom." --Dr. Juli Slattery, cofounder of Authentic Intimacy and author of Rethinking Sexuality










    ISBN/SKU: 
    9781631466724
    Publication Date: 
    2018-09-04
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