You can do more than hope. Safeguard your relationship and build a love that not only goes the distance but fulfills your deepest dreams. 

More than a million couples have used the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS for short) to prepare for life-long love. 

The Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Men will help you uncover and understand the unique shaping factors you bring into your marriage as a man. Prepare for some surprising and helpful insights, for honest, intimate, and enjoyable relationship-strengthening conversations with you and your fiancée, and for engaging discussions with a small group.

Over the course of twenty-four exercises, this workbook will shed amazing new light on the way you''re made, how that affects the way you and your loved one relate, and how you can improve those areas to build a better relationship. You will gain unprecedented insights into topics such as:

• your personal "Ten Commandments"
• making your roles conscious 
• exploring unfinished business 
• assessing your self-image 
• getting your sex life off to a great start 
• cultivating intimacy 
• listening to your self-talk 
• avoiding the blame game 
• how well do you communicate? 
• your top ten needs 
• mind reading 
• how to listen 
• identifying your "hot topics"
• money talks 
• your spiritual journey 

The personal exercises portion is followed by a discussion section: 7 Questions to Ask Before—and After—You Marry. Les and Leslie will help you enjoy lively and eye-opening interaction with each other and with a small group through seven sessions on the DVD (sold separately). The discussion guide takes you through an opening exercise, note-taking as you watch the video, linking to the workbook exercises, and group discussion, concluding with an exercise each couple can do together over the next week. 

Designed for use with Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Women Updated (9780310875475) and Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Updated Video Study (9780310875734), both sold separately.