The 4 Seasons of Marriage is a easy-to-read book which presents “seven strategies to enhance the seasons of your marriage.” Chapman describes these as “biblically based strategies” that grew out of his extensive counseling experience.

“No one has the perfect marriage,” he says, but “the good news is that you can have a better marriage than you do now.” It is his conviction that “no marriage is hopeless.”

About the Author

Gary Chapman is the author of the best-selling ‘The Five Love Languages’ (more than 4 million copies sold) and The Four Seasons of Marriage. He is the director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc.; an internationally known speaker; and the host of A Love Language Minute, a syndicated radio program heard on more than 100 stations across North America. He and his wife, Karolyn, live in North Carolina.

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Fall. Marriages are perpetually in a state of transition, continually moving from one season to another―perhaps not annually, as in nature, but just as certainly and consistently.

Sometimes we find ourselves in bad time-discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times, we experience springtime with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On other occasions, we bask in the warmth―comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension.

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