A Handbook For Engaged Couples - Book Review

A Handbook for Engaged Couples by married couple Robert and Alice Fryling provides a concise workbook for engaged couples looking to solidify their new life together. Drawing on personal experience and assorted anecdotes from 25 years of marriage, the authors provide specific advice concerning topics ranging from money to sex and explain why newly engaged couples should rely on open communication throughout their marriage.

A Handbook for Engaged Couples is 92 pages with a large font and extensive use of white space throughout the text. Potential purchasers should consider the text more akin to a school workbook than a fully developed book. Serious readers who take the time to complete the suggested exercises and work through the (sometimes) difficult questions posed by the authors will find the book well worth the cost of purchase.

A Handbook for Engaged Couples is written from a Christian point of view and while the authors avoid preaching to readers, atheist or agnostic couples may not benefit from the discussion of faith within marriage. Interestingly, non-Christian couples and particularly couples in a mixed-religion relationship will gain from the open communication about religion discussed by the authors. The marriage of religion with married life is also well balanced with other topics such as handling time management as part of a new couple.

A Handbook for Engaged Couples is available for under $9 in a standard paperback version or sold for less than $5 as a instant ebook download for the Kindle.