Making Marriage Easier: How to Love (and Like) Your Spouse for Life

by Arlene Pellicane

Overview

A joyous summons to love (and like) your spouse for a lifetime.

Many people today are pessimistic about marriage. It’s hard. It will end in divorce. If you marry, you exchange romance for responsibility. Yet research tells us the happiest people on the planet are those in healthy marriages.

Can marriage be great—not just for the rare few—but for you? After twenty-five years of marriage, Arlene Pellicane has stories and biblical wisdom to share. Full of real life that will make you laugh, Making Marriage Easier addresses common threats to our marriage—poor communication, tension over differences, lack of physical intimacy, parenting stress, and more.

Four key decisions will help you clarify your values and create a clear path forward. Each short chapter ends with life lessons, questions to ponder with your spouse or in a group, and prayers to strengthen and encourage. Marriage is part of God’s awesome, wonderful plan. It’s meant to be a celebration, not a life sentence.      

Whether you’re holding a baby for the first time or figuring out retirement, this book is fresh kindling for a bettermarriage that can go the distance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802433770
Publisher:	Moody Publishers
Publication date:	02/04/2025
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

ARLENE PELLICANE is a speaker, host of the Happy Home podcast, and author of several books, including Parents Rising, Making Marriage Easier, and Screen Kids (coauthored with Dr. Gary Chapman). Arlene has been featured on popular media outlets including The Today Show, Fox & Friends, Focus on the Family, FamilyLife Today, The 700 Club, and the Wall Street Journal. She is the spokesperson for National Marriage Week and has been happily married to her husband, James, for more than 25 years. Arlene earned her BA from Biola University and her master’s in journalism from Regent University. Arlene inspires parents to raise children who are ready for life (not just playing video games). As an advocate of delaying smartphones and social media, her three children are living a revolutionary digital life and thriving. Arlene lives with her family in San Diego. To learn more, visit ArlenePellicane.com.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book is not only a delightful read, but the simple steps inside can also revolutionize your marriage if you put them into practice. Arlene and James have been happily married for more than twenty-five years and they can show you how to enjoy your marriage too.”
—GARY CHAPMAN
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages

“Working on your marriage can feel like, well, work. But this book will make it actually feel fun and remind you of why you got married in the first place. If you want to make intimacy easier, communication easier, getting along easier, pick up this book.”
—SHAUNTI FELDHAHN
Author of Secrets of Sex and Marriage and For Women Only

“Making Marriage Easier will do for you exactly what the title says. I LOVED this book. Arlene Pellicane is one of my favorite Christian communicators, and this is a marriage book you will want to read. It’s a simple and profound book that gives practical ideas on every page. Do what she suggests, and your marriage load will be lighter, and your relationship will be stronger.”
—JIM BURNS
Founder, HomeWord and author of Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out

“With simple ideas, personal illustrations mixed with biblical wisdom, Arlene hands us the playbook for a winning marriage, a marriage that can become joyful and beautiful.”
—PAM AND BILL FARREL
Authors of over sixty books, including bestselling Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti and codirectors of Love-Wise

“Making Marriage Easier is a rare find—filled with wisdom that’s practical, biblically sound, and laugh-out-loud funny! This book will be my go-to gift for newlyweds, milestone anniversaries, and every couple in between. I feel encouraged and understood after reading it, and I can’t wait to see it bless marriages everywhere!”
—MONICA SWANSON
Podcast host and author of Boy Mom and Becoming Homeschoolers

“Finally, a marriage book that coaches couples without imposing perfection or casting blame. Arlene’s vulnerability and authenticity make her stories about life with her husband relatable and compelling. Somehow, she’s woven together insights for premarital preparation, marriage tune-ups, and restoration—all within each chapter. A must-read for couples at every stage.”
—RON HUNTER JR.
CEO of D6 Family Ministry

“I’m a firm believer in the value of advanced decision-making. When we decide something in advance and then live by that decision, it often makes life easier. I love how Arlene has taken that concept and applied it to marriage. I’m in! Are you?”
—JILL SAVAGE
Marriage coach, speaker, and author of No More Perfect Marriages

“With wit and wisdom Arlene maps out essential landmarks along the journey to a happy marriage. If your hoped-for destination is a thriving relationship that knows how to smooth over the rocky spaces and straighten out the crooked places, then Making Marriage Easier gives you the tools to navigate the map to get you there!”
—SHARON JAYNES
Bestselling author of twenty-six books, including Lovestruck: Discovering God’s Design for Romance, Marriage, and Sexual Intimacy from the Song of Solomon

“This book contains valuable lessons that have not only helped our marriage but have also helped inform how we parent our four children. It’s a blessing to know that these same words will now be spoken to you and thousands of other families.”
—REMI ADELEKE
Filmmaker, former Navy SEAL, and author of Transformed

“This is the book they should give you before the ink on your marriage license is dry. If every couple read Making Marriage Easier and actually did the things Arlene suggests, good relationships would get better, bad ones would find the courage to change, and even the most dry or brittle love would begin to flourish and grow.”
—JODIE BERNDT
Bestselling author of Praying the Scriptures for Your Marriage