The Merge for Marriage: Turning Frustration and Disunity into Closeness and Commitment

Written by Kari Trent Stageberg

Narrated by Kari Trent Stageberg

Marriage can be surprisingly difficult when you’re first starting out.

Newly married couples face a tremendous challenge that is seldom talked about. In our social media-driven world, it’s easy to think that everyone else has it together in their marriages and wonder if maybe you made a mistake. The truth is, most couples don’t enter marriage with the communication or attachment skills needed to deal with the integration of two lives.

The Merge for Marriage helps answer the question newly married couples face: “Can we ever get on the same page?” Couples will learn
 

• what it means to “merge” and the damaging effects of not dealing with differences early in a marriage;
• the seven predictable areas of conflict;
• a practical, powerful plan for dealing with differences with one’s partner; and
• how to help another couple walk through the merge process.

Full of practical stories, current research on connection and attachment, and enduring biblical principles, this book will help a couple learn how the different “merge points” in their marriage can actually strengthen their relationship so that they can enjoy a thriving marriage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Release date: Nov 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9781684286003

Kari Trent Stageberg

Kari Trent Stageberg is the CEO of StrongFamilies, her dream job since her dad, John Trent, started the ministry in 1998. More than twenty years later, after personal faith and relationship struggles, Kari was restored and healed through the power of the Blessing. Today she is a speaker, cohosts the StrongFamilies and Live Blessed, Girl podcasts, helps nonprofits through her partnership with the Nonprofit Consulting Shop, speaks, and pursues writing through her blog, MyBelovedDaughter.com. She lives in Tacoma, Washington with her amazing husband, Joey.