FRONT FLAP Soon you'll be standing before a minister and you'll be asked to repeat very important promises to each other--promises to love and care for each other, protect each other, and spend the rest of your lives together. You'll make those promises before God, your family, your friends, and all who have come to witness your marriage. You'll exchange rings that symbolize your commitment to those promises. But when you make them, will you really understand what they mean? And will you keep them every day for the rest of your lives? Care. Honesty. Protection. Time. These are the four promises I encourage you to make to each other--and to keep for a lifetime.

BACK FLAP Willard F. Harley, Jr., is a nationally acclaimed clinical psychologist, marriage expert, and bestselling author. His popular website, www.marriagebuilders.com, offers practical solutions to almost any marital problem. Dr. Harley and Joyce, his wife of forty-four years, can be heard three hours every weekday answering marriage-related questions on their nationally syndicated radio program, Marriage Builders.