CONTENTS

Introduction: Why Can’t We Talk?

Essential Area 1:

We Need to Talk About Our Emotional Intimacy

1 Men Are Clams, Women Are Crowbars

2 It’s Time for the Clam to Open Up

3 Put Every Topic on the Table

Essential Area 2:

We Need to Talk About Our Spiritual Intimacy

4 Where Are You With Jesus?

5 How to Keep God at the Center of Your Relationship

Essential Area 3:

We Need to Talk About Our Conflicts

6 Fight With Confidence

Essential Area 4:

We Need to Talk About Our Past Pain

7 Who’s on Your Past-Pain List?

8 Speak the Truth in Letters

Essential Area 5:

We Need to Talk About Our Positivity

9 Pucker Up, Play, and Pursue

Essential Area 6: We Need to Talk About Our Needs

10 We Really Do Need Each Other

11 How to Meet Needs Every Day

Essential Area 7:

We Need to Talk About Our Sins and Weaknesses

12 Alone You Fail, Together You Succeed

Essential Area 8:

We Need to Talk About Our Finances

13 Money Meltdown or Financial Freedom?

Essential Area 9:

We Need to Talk About Our Parenting

14 These Kids Are Driving Us Crazy!

Essential Area 10:

We Need to Talk About Our Physical Intimacy

15 Naked, Not Ashamed, and Happy in Bed

Where to Go From Here

16 Are We Breaking Up or Getting Married?

17 When Your Spouse Won’t Complete This Program With You

18 It’s All Up From Here

Additional Resources

About the Authors