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The Marriage Manual Most Couples Were Never Given
Love for a Lifetime: Real Tools, Real Talk for a Marriage That Lasts
Nobody hands you a marriage manual when the celebration is over, ordinary life resumes, and you wake up beside the person you love with a quiet question you were not expecting:
Are we doing this right?
Most couples are given plenty of guidance for the wedding day and very little for the marriage that follows. This book is the guidance I wish more of us had been given from the beginning.
INSIDE THE BOOK
What’s Inside
Ten chapters bring together honest stories, practical relationship tools, meaningful questions, and the perspective I have gained through more than two decades of marriage, a career in education, and the privilege of marrying more than 150 couples.
This book is for engaged couples who want to begin well, newlyweds learning what comes after the celebration, and longer-married couples who want to protect something good before distance quietly takes hold. It is also for common-law couples who share a home, a life, and the same need for honest communication and emotional safety.
This is not therapy, and it does not offer a fantasy of perfect marriage. It is grounded, practical support for two people who want to keep choosing each other with intention.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Meet Nikki Morrell
Nikki Morrell has been married for over two decades. She will be the first to tell you those decades have not all looked the same.
She is a wedding officiant and marriage guide who has spent years standing at the threshold of love stories, and then listening to what couples carry in the years that follow. She writes from lived experience, from seasons of joy and seasons of difficulty, and from everything she has witnessed standing with couples as they speak their vows and then quietly learn to keep them.
This is not abstract advice. It is a compass for finding your way back to each other, again and again, in those seasons when life gets overwhelming.
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