Are you a parent, a grandparent, or a significant other looking forward to a young person's marriage? Do you yearn to provide sensible counsel and yet find yourself experiencing a mouth full of cotton rather than one full of wisdom? This may be just the book for you. Soulchat: Dad Talks to the Bride is a series of 24 "chats" from a father to his daughter on the occasion of her marriage. These chats give it to her straight on a host of pertinent marriage-related subjects nature of marriage and the priority of acceptance conflict, roles, money, romance and sex, children, in-laws, communication, forgiveness, mutual submission, respect and honor, faithfulness, power games, dealing with setbacks, dreams and goals, and always and throughout, thinking about marriage from the perspective of faith. Each chapter is filled with practical advice, personal transparency, and biblical application that will help to make the transition from singleness to marriage more successful. Listen in to fatherly counsel regarding the most important human relationship a child will ever know--marriage to a life partner. Ralph (R.V.) Seep serves as the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds degrees in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, in Law from Duke University, and in Exegetical Theology from Western Seminary. R.V. has served in numerous capacities in local churches. He and his wife, Dottie, have two adult children and four grandchildren, and reside near Annapolis, Maryland.