Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before (and After) You Marry is a 1995 book by Leslie and Les Parrott, a married couple. The two have collaboratively written other books as well, including Becoming Soul Mates and The Marriage Mentor Manual. Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts is a Christian non-fiction book that focuses on premarital issues. The book comprehensively explains how to be prepared for marriage. Video lessons were included with the publication of the book. In the book, the Parrotts argue that people should seek self-realization individually and cannot expect their spouses to bring about that change in them. They also recommend complimenting one's spouse at least daily. In the book The Family, Jack and Judith Balswick recommended Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts to couples preparing for marriage. Adriana Barton of The Globe and Mail called the Parrotts' book "anodyne."