A Better Way to Marry: A Family Approach to Lasting Love for Generations

Why do so many people fail to get marriage right from the start and not experience lasting love?

Co-authors, Ken and Verena Hardman, married for more than 40 years, provide a well-researched, experience-based, marriage-preparation guidebook. It encompasses the best marriage and family practices observed in Western and Eastern cultures corroborated by the social sciences.

A Better Way To Marry guides hopeful single adults to get marriage right from the start.

It proposes a game-changing approach to marriage, a reliable, safe, well-reasoned, virtue- and family-centered alternative to short-lived, risky and fantasy-based expectations of romance and love as the basis for marriage. It is premised on the fact that finding and forming a marriage with a Mr. or Ms. Right is first about being a Mr. or Ms. Right, a healthy human being who can form and sustain healthy relationships, especially in marriage. It is based on the idea that true and lasting love is learned and developed like a muscle--it does not just happen to you.

Relationship-building tools, concepts and a vocabulary are provided that shine light on your deepest desires for the transcendent experience of love.

A Better Way To Marry guides single adults through a step-by-step process of self-discovery with questions that examine their assumptions about readiness for marriage, an ideal mate, love, romance, soulmate, intimacy, sexuality, family relations, work-life balance and more.

A Better Way To Marry helps single adults and their parents to engage in conversations about the benefits of forming marriages that are part of a supportive network of families and how to do that. The desire for family harmony and stability is shared broadly, whether one comes from a family of very modest means or a high net-worth family, whether one is reared in a Western culture where divorce is painfully common or in an Eastern culture where divorce is not common but is on the rise among educated young adults.

A Better Way To Marry provides a success-formula approach to marriage.

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During the past 14 years, researching and writing this book has truly been a labor of love. As our children were coming of age, necessity became our teacher. As a way of becoming serious students of marriage and family life, we were encouraged to learn from the best marriage and family educators by reading their books and teaching them to others--chapter-by-chapter. That is what we did in our home guiding discussions of the books' lessons learned with other couples and with our children. Humbled by what we did not know, we were also relieved that we did not need to have a conflict-free marriage to have a happy marriage, and relieved that we did not need to be perfect parents to be caring and responsible parents. We were reminded again and again how love is so widely misunderstood, and that single adults need some simple insights and words to talk about lasting love and marriage. Not only that, we discovered that with enough effort, a teacher can learn more than the student, and that the best teachers about love and marriage should be parents.  We hope that this book can provide you with tools that help you prepare for marriage, or to enrich your marriage, or help you guide your children to form healthy marriages.