The Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work
This book was a New York Times Best-Seller, but is not a book I highly recommend. The author claims he can predict, based on six common signs, whether a marriage will end in divorce. From this point, the book details the author’s seven principles to ensure a successful marriage. Bells and sirens went off in my head as I read through the statistical methods employed in the author’s predictive model–they are not what I consider to be solid scientific standards. Aside from this, the seven principles are interesting and may be of some help, but the book is entirely secular and leaves the development of the marriage completely up to the human efforts of the individuals and leaves God out of the equation altogether. Author: John Gottman, PhD. Publisher: Three Rivers Press.
