How to have a stronger, happier marriage

These pages will give you what you need to make your marriage a source of profound happiness and lasting peace:

• Knowledge: You'll come to understand the nature of marriage and its superiority to "living together" and other temporary unions.
• Love: You'll learn to distinguish love from lust, infatuation, and other common counterfeits; and you'll discover the healing role it can play in the best - and bleakest - of marriages.
• Faith: You'll come to see how the sacramental marriage of Christians is the fulfillment and perfection of marriage, giving husband and wife what every spouse secretly longs for.

Marriage will show you:

• The one right motive for marrying - and the many wrong ones (some often accepted by Christians)
• The difference between the meaning of marriage and its purpose (and the dangers of confusing the two)
• The five ways in which married love differs from other loves
• Six counterfeit loves: what sometimes passes for love isn't
• The key role of will in sustaining love
• Your unhappy marriage: it may be a clear "call" from God
• How difficulties and suffering can deepen your marriage - and make you and your spouse better persons
• How marriage reveals God's love and presence
• How Christianity intensifies married love
• The meaning of marriage as a sacrament: its promises, its demands, and how it is a source of strength and grace.