Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

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1. Jameson Thottam says:

   February 4, 2010 at 1:38 am

   This our first book someone lent us and thought it was nice at best (see our reviews on the sec ond book on marriage it was a better primer on does and don’ts which covered a lot good tips on how to relate with eachother and drivers most of its analysis from insider trading tips on successful relationships).

   My husband, Jameson Thottam, and I lead busy work lives working across coasts (him in the mortgage company working for firms such as Battery Ventures/Loan Page, IndyMac Bank, Homestore and myself on the East Coast) and its always nice to get insights from others.

   This book gave us some okay insights on how to manage both…

   Hope that helps,

   Elizabeth and Jameson Thottam
   
   (see sec ond book review)
   
   Rating: 2 / 5
2. Anonymous says:

   February 4, 2010 at 1:54 am

   Yes. This book was a great source of pre-marital questions and awnsers, but it did indeed have a hidden agenda. I too would not have purchased the book knowing that the entire last chapter was based on Christian principals and marriage.
   Rating: 3 / 5
3. Jeffrey Strain says:

   February 4, 2010 at 4:22 am

   Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts describes
   
   marriage as ” a supernatural event founded upon
   
   a mutual exchange of holy pledges.” The authors
   
   save this description for the last chapter, however, from the third chapter on the book is
   
   creepily christianic. They ultimately trivialize
   
   all advice that can be found in seminars, counseling, mentors, and books, presumably, even their own. All that a marriage really needs is religion. I want my money back!
   Rating: 1 / 5
4. Anonymous says:

   February 4, 2010 at 6:49 am

   This book had a lot of good suggestions… I guess I should have seen the fine print, however… It was given the gold medallion book award for excellence in evangelical christian literature… I didn’t know this when I bought it. In fact, I didn’t know it until the last chapter when, though you may do everything in the book right, though you may ask the 7 questions and understand some of the things men and women do to mess up their relationships with one another, if you don’t go to church together and if you aren’t of the same religion, forget it! You can never be soul mates! This last part of the book left a bitter taste in my mouth and made me wish I had never bought it. And it was almost as if it had been hidden throughout the rest of book. If the book were clearly advertised as religiously motivated, people like me wouldn’t buy it, and they couldn’t sell as many copies.
   Rating: 3 / 5
5. Engagement in Progress says:

   February 4, 2010 at 6:49 am

   Should be a required read for any engaged or recently married couple!
   Rating: 5 / 5