After You'Ve Said I Do: New Ways to Communicate in Marriage

After You'Ve Said I Do: New Ways to Communicate in Marriage by Small, Dwight Hervey. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780800700034.

In the face of mounting divorce statistics, there is great need for this book on the Christian approach to dating and marriage. Its thesis is that Christian marriage is unique, that it is truly creative, and that it is inherently fortified against such pathological deterioration as leads to divorce. Step by step, Dwight Small traces the development of the young man and woman from casual dating to dynamic, Christ-centered marriage. He recognizes and advises regarding the hazards and tensions of marriage, the costliness of Christian love, the goal of oneness, the mature management of conflict, the place of Christian humility and forgiveness. Family planning is evaluated from the viewpoint of Christian morality.