Dear Young Married Couple: Letters & Tools for the Fights, the Fun, the Sex, and the Soulwork

Everyone says marriage takes hard work—but that’s just part of it. A great marriage takes practice.

You can love each other deeply and still lose valuable time to misunderstandings, defensiveness, unmet needs, and clumsy repairs. Without a plan, couples don’t rise to their best intentions; they default to their oldest patterns.

These letters and tools will help you stop improvising in the hard moments and start practicing your way toward a deeper, more intimate connection.

Through their writing, Adam King, MA, and Karissa King, LMFT—married counselors and hosts of the Dear Young Married Couple Podcast—offer a practical, biblically-based and scientifically-sound framework for the parts of marriage you don't get a manual for: the fights, the fun, the sex, and the soulwork.

As a counselor-therapist duo, Adam and Karissa King have counseled thousands of couples in every stage of life and have led dozens of marriage events, conferences, and retreats. Their guiding philosophy in all of their efforts is more of a question, actually... "Why be married and just get by, when you can have a marriage that's intimate, adventurous, and purposeful?" This is the question that led them to build their educational platform and podcast Dear Young Married Couple and to write their debut book, Dear Young Married Couple: Letters & Tools for the Fights, the Fun, the Sex, and the Soulwork.

For most of their marriage, Adam and Karissa have been helping dating, engaged, and married couples build healthy and healed relationships. They are constantly seeking new ways to share what they've learned with the couples who need it.