The Four Seasons of Marriage Book

What Season of Marriage Are You In?

Just as nature has its four seasons, every marriage also passes through four distinct seasons—not tied to the calendar but based on the climate and current condition of the relationship.

Respected marriage expert Dr. Gary Chapman has given millions of couples the key to clear communication in his perennial best seller, The Five Love Languages. Now he breaks new ground with The Four Seasons of Marriage, a book guaranteed to change the way you and your spouse understand your marriage.

In The Four Seasons of Marriage, Dr. Chapman explains

• the unique characteristics found in each season of marriage
• seven strategies for making the most of each season
• how to move a marriage out of one season and into another
• strategies for unification when you and your spouse have differing perceptions of your marriage
• and much more!
  

Use the provided Marital Seasons Profile—a questionnaire built on Dr. Chapman’s experience conducting numerous marriage seminars every year—to identify the season of your marriage.

Reassuring and relevant at every age and stage of marriage, The Four Seasons of Marriage is a perfect gift for a couple you love—including you and your spouse!

Publishers Weekly

Chapman, author of the longstanding megaseller The Five Love Languages, uses his years of marriage counseling and leading marriage seminars as the basis for his thesis that marriages repeatedly go through periods that can be characterized by the seasons of the year. He begins by describing winter, times when marriages are marked by "coldness, harshness, and bitterness." Spring is "where most marriages begin," while summer is filled with fun. He compares an autumn marriage to "the falling of the leaves." Chapman offers detailed explanations of the emotions, attitudes and actions of the marriage seasons as well as the pros and cons of each. The book's second section provides seven strategies to enhance or change the marriage seasons, from dealing with past failures and speaking your spouse's love language to "maximizing differences" and becoming a positive influence. Chapman also specifically addresses how to improve a marriage where a spouse has no desire to change. While it's valuable to have this information in one place, this book isn't different from what Chapman has written, said and taught many times before. Clear writing, tested strategies and good stories are here, but new revelations are not. (Sept.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.