The Four Seasons of Marriage: Which Season of Marriage Are You In?- By Gary Chapman

After analyzing each marriage season, this easy-to-read book presents “seven strategies to enhance the seasons of your marriage.” Chapman describes these as “biblically based strategies” that grew out of his extensive counseling experience.

“No one has the perfect marriage,” he says, but “the good news is that you can have a better marriage than you do now.” It is his conviction that “no marriage is hopeless.”

Chapman is very widely known for his best-selling book The Five Love Languages. He is a Baptist pastor in North Carolina and has counseled a great many married couples.

When a fall or winter season occurs for a couple, the spouses tend to feel uncertain or less hopeful about where their marriage is headed. The presence of these seasons needs to be addressed by couples, Chapman believes. “The seasons of a marriage do not typically change without some positive action — unless it’s a change from bad to worse,” he writes.

Chapman notes that couples in the fall season “are aware that things aren’t right. … They are troubled by the state of their relationship.” And winter marriages, he explains, “are characterized by coldness, harshness and bitterness.”

However, “the seasons of fall and winter are not altogether purposeless. They often serve as a wake-up call to stimulate marital growth,” says Chapman. He comments that “God can use marital winters for good. … When couples persevere and begin to take positive steps to improve their marriage, they emerge stronger.”

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