Money Before Marriage: A Financial Workbook for Engaged Couples

by Michael E. Taylor and Larry Burkett

Book Overview

Are you off to a good start financially in your marriage?

She's a shopaholic and he's a tightwad. Or he's a spendthrift and she's a penny-pincher. Are their marriages doomed to fail? Should they even marry at all?

It's been said that the two most destructive problems in a marriage are mismanagement of money and poor communication. In this financial book, Money Before Marriage, Larry Burkett disarms these powerful threats...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802463894
• ISBN13: 9780802463890
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Length: 122 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.6" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

If you only choose one resource to help couples, this is it!

This book includes personality tests, communication and conflict tips, as well as a step by step approach to creating a budget. It also logically explains why we budget and prepare for the future. This book is logical, strategic, and very useful for young couples who are just figuring out the importance of the dollar. Great tool for pastors, young couples wanting to prep, and councilors. This is a good tool for all adults; newly married or veterans.

BIG HELP

It's a big help, me and my fiance were really worried about the financial situation, but this really helped to sort everything out...it gave us a plan.

Really helpful!

This is a great book! My now-husband and I bought two copies and went through it during the months before we got married, and it was really helpful in showing us how to put together our first budget. Even more than that, we learned a lot about each other (and this is after four years of dating) and about how we each deal with money. I'm sure those lessons will help us throughout our marriage as we deal with new financial circumstances and situations. I would recommend this book to any Christian couple planning for marriage.

Christian-filled way to open the lines of communication

Though the first two chapters are filled with spiritual advice, the personality and spending surveys are eye-opening. If you're looking for spiritual guidance as well as financial advice, this is a book for you. However, if you just want to get down to the nitty gritty of how you can cut costs, and live comfortably you might want to look into a more personal finance type of book.