Taggart Laura - Making love last: divorce-proofing your young marriage

Laura has written a practical and wise guide on a crucial subject. Making Love Last is worth heeding for a lifetime.

John Ortberg , senior pastor of Menlo Church; author of All The Places to Go

For over thirty years Ive watched the results of Laura Taggarts skillful love for raw marriages. Now she has produced an excellent resource for every couple hoping to create, rescue, or deepen love in their marriage. Great, fulfilling marriages take heart and skill. Laura addresses both. She names our real struggles clearly and honestly. Then she offers hope for a loving future with believable, practical, well-focused direction. Each chapter concludes with questions for reflection and discussionthese alone are worth the cost of the book! This book will help many of us love well.

Scott Farmer , retired pastor of Community Presbyterian Church, Danville

As a pastor, I help couples plan storybook weddings. Making Love Last is the gift Ill bring to every one of them. Laura understands the unique challenges couples face today. Her honesty, wisdom, and practical tools give couples what they need to transition from a storybook wedding to a thriving marriage.

Mark Wollan , senior pastor of San Ramon Presbyterian Church

Insights gleaned from Laura Taggarts thirty years as a marriage counselor are woven into stories of her clientsyoung couples who face common problems that threaten their commitment. Taggart untangles the immediate issues by shedding light on what has brought the couple to the point of crisis and shows them how their crisis is an opportunity for growth, resulting in a deeply satisfying relationship. Making Love Last is aimed at young couples, but it brings benefits and wisdom to all marriages. Its on the top of my go-to gift list.

Suzanne Woods Fisher , bestselling author of Amish Peace

This book is for all of us who keep trying harder and harder at our marriages but feel like we are not seeing results. Lauras radical suggestion? Stop trying so hard and dare to try something different. Making Love Last takes your marriage into new and wild territories in order to help couples not only talk about changing their marriages but actually grow them. Laura explores how your differences can make you a stronger couple, looks at the real motivations of why we do what we do, and even suggests creative ways to handle conflict. Couples who go through this book will have all the tools they need to approach their marriage in new, healthy, and, dare I say, fun ways.

Kathi Lipp , author of the Publishers Weekly bestseller The Husband Project , Clutter Free , and Overwhelmed

If you are confused, disappointed, or even in despair about your marriage, Making Love Last will give you help and hope. Well-written and easy to read, this book will give you new insights about marriage and practical approaches for tending, mending, and renewing your love. All of this in the context of spiritual healing and Christian growth. Written for young marrieds, its a good read for anyone who seeks lasting love at any stage of relationship.

Rev. Mary Steege , licensed marriage and family therapist

Laura has traveled the terrain of early marriage with enumerable young couples and knows intimately the challenges and disillusionments they face. We all want a great marriage but most of us dont know how to get there. In Making Love Last , Laura provides a goldmine of wisdom and practical help that will guide and inspire couples toward that great marriage they long for. A must read for all young (and old!) couples!

Claudia and David Arp , authors of the 10 Great Dates series

This book is an incredible opportunity to be mentored and counseled by a wonderful Christian counselor in Laura Taggart. She brings practical advice and hope in building the foundation you need for success in your marriage for a lifetime. A healthy marriage is always an intentional marriage and Laura will give you the tools needed to Make Love Last .

Jim Burns, PhD , president of HomeWord; author of Creating an Intimate Marriage , Closer , and Getting Ready for Marriage

This book is daring, bold, and inspiring. It challenges millennials to think differently about marriage in a generation where divorce is commonplace. Laura gives us a gentle nudge and a refreshing perspective on marriage as she dares us to lean in to our relationships to make love last instead finding replacements.

Teagan Darnell , MA, LMFT