A Devotional for Engaged Couples...
Because your first year of marriage doesn't have to be the hardest!
Do you want to build a marriage with God at the center?
If you want to learn how to navigate newlywed life as husband and wife and draw closer to God as a couple, Engaged with Expectations is the devotional for you.
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Introducing: Engaged with Expectations
A Devotional for Engaged Couples to Prepare for Marriage
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When you got engaged, you probably imagined what your life would look like as a married couple. You’ll have sex all the time, cuddle on Saturday mornings, and travel the world together.
But have you thought about how you’ll share a closet? What about merging and managing your finances? And what does it look like to seek God together?
Whether you realize it or not, you and your spouse have a lot of expectations of what married life will look like. But what happens when your expectations are different?
Unmet expectations are one of the biggest sources of conflict in marriage. But that doesn’t have to be your story.
In this devotional, you’ll learn how to identify and communicate your expectations in marriage while keeping God at the center of your relationship.
Your first year of marriage doesn’t have to be the hardest. From faith, finances, to family planning, these devotions will help you apply God’s Word as you learn to navigate life as a married couple.
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In Engaged with Expectations, you’ll learn how to identify and communicate your expectations in marriage in several areas, including:
- What intimacy looks like in your marriage (including sexpectations in the bedroom)
- How to merge and manage your finances as a married couple (including how much you should give & whether you should have joint accounts)
- What it looks like to seek and serve God together (including how to talk about your past)
- How to resolve and work through conflict when you disagree, and how to work through your first fight
- What love should look like in marriage, and how your spouse wants to be loved
- What it looks like to manage a home together (including who cleans, cooks, and pays the bills)
- How to discuss family planning (including birth control)
- How to set boundaries with friends and family
- How to have fun as a married couple, including how to prioritize date nights & expectations for traveling together
- How to talk about sex, including how to communicate what you like - and don't like - in the bedroom
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Engaged with Expectations is a faith-based & practical devotional to help you draw closer to God as you prepare for married life.
"When you are engaged it's easy to think that everything will work out because you love each other. That works until the first conflict arises out of unmet or unvoiced expectations.
As a marriage coach, I see so many couples question the relationship because they don't know how to handle expectations.  Engaged with Expectations is a practical resource that will help married couples communicate their expectations before they say I do.
Don't wait until things get hard to address your expectations—do it BEFORE the wedding!"
- Alisa DiLorenzo, author of The 6 Pillars of Intimacy: The Secret to An Extraordinary Marriage
