Get Married: What Women Can Do to Help It Happen »

Candice Watters founded Focus on the Family’s Boundless.org webzine in 1998 and served as editor until 2002. She writes regularly for Boundless about dating and marriage, as well as a bi-weekly advice column for women.  She and her husband Steve Watters (Director of Young Adults for Focus on the Family) have written Start Your Family: Inspiration for Having Babies (Moody, January 2009).  They have four children.

Is it okay to want to be married? Is there anything a woman who has never been married can do to make marriage more likely? Candice Watters gives women permission to want Christian marriage, encourages them to believe it's possible, and supplies the tools to get there despite our post-marriage culture. Get Married includes the author's personal journey from singleness to marriage as well as a biblical perspective on marriage. It shows how living intentionally is the key to marrying well. Get Married is a fresh and hopeful perspective that empowers single women to pray not only for their friends, parents, and churches-but the men who are (or could be) part of their lives.

Contents Acknowledgement....................8
Foreword....................10
Introduction: The Professor's Grenade....................13
Chapter 1 Believe Marriage Is a Worthwhile and Holy Pursuit....................21
Chapter 2 Restore Biblical Honor and Desire....................39
Chapter 3 Men Aren't Jerks, They're Fallen (Like You)....................55
Chapter 4 God's Still in the Business of Making Good Matches....................61
Chapter 5 You Need a Network....................81
Chapter 6 Waking a Great Sleeper....................95
Chapter 7 Pulling a Ruth....................109
Chapter 8 Living Like You're Planning to Marry....................12l Chapter 9 Pray Boldly....................145
Afterword Steve's Story....................155
Appendix 1 Applying Get Married to Your Story: Commonly Asked Questions....................165
Appendix 2 Recommended Reading....................187
Notes....................189
About the Author....................197