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Beyond Bashert: A Guide to Dating and Marriage Enrichment

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My wife and I found this book to be very helpful. It contains countless ideas about how to cope with all the different aspects of being married: communicating, disagreements, etc. My wife and I read the book together and it gave us lots of ideas to talk about. It gave us a way to talk about things going on in our marriage without making the conversation into a complaining session, so it was quite enjoyable. So many of the examples really struck home and made us laugh because they were exactly what we have experienced. I felt vindicated at times when it expressed things that I didn't know how to say or whether it was OK to say, e.g., the discussion about the fact that women often crave a greater degree of intimacy than men do. The book is not theoretical, but consists of hundreds of examples of issues and problems and discusses how to deal with them. The book would be excellent, regardless of the couple's religion, but the book is written from an orthodox Jewish viewpoint and contains some comments from Jewish tradition and Halacha (Jewish law). If these aspects are not relevant to you, the book would still be excellent.