Bride's Guide to Emotional Survival

Rita Bigel-Casher spent twenty years as a marriage and family therapist in New York City — she was known as the 'Marrying Therapist' — and that experience shows on every page. Her guide addresses the emotional terrain of wedding planning that most how-to books skip entirely: family conflicts, competing expectations, whose wedding it really is, how men and women handle the stress differently, and what prenuptial conversations really involve. The practical, topic-organized structure makes it easy to read selectively when a specific stress point flares up. The honest caveat is that the framework is secular, so readers looking for faith-rooted guidance on marriage preparation will need to supplement elsewhere. As a therapist-written emotional companion for the engagement season, it fills a genuine gap.