The Intentional Marriage: A Guide To Building Love That Lasts

Marriage doesn’t drift toward intimacy. It drifts toward disconnection.

In a world filled with distraction, stress, emotional wounds, and reactive patterns, many couples find themselves feeling more like roommates than deeply connected partners. The Intentional Marriage is a practical and Christ-centered guide designed to help couples move from survival mode to deeper connection, healing, and lasting love.

Written from decades of counseling experience and real-life marriage, Bryan and Stephanie Vignery help couples uncover the hidden patterns that quietly damage intimacy—while providing practical tools to rebuild trust, strengthen communication, and create a healthier emotional foundation.

This book will help you:

• Understand how past wounds and shame impact your marriage
• Improve communication and emotional connection
• Break unhealthy relational cycles and reactive patterns
• Develop healthier conflict resolution skills
• Build emotional safety, trust, and intentional intimacy
• Strengthen your marriage through faith, healing, and truth
• Create lasting habits that lead to a stronger relationship

Perfect for:

• Married couples at any stage
• Engaged couples preparing for marriage
• Marriage counseling support
• Church small groups and leadership teams
• Pastors, mentors, and marriage ministries

Whether your marriage is struggling, growing, or simply in need of renewed intentionality, this book offers hope, practical direction, and a pathway toward deeper connection.

Better doesn’t happen by accident.
The Intentional Way begins with intentional choices.