When it comes to successful families, the basic principles are simple. Applying those principles in the real world is where the complications arise. And if your real world includes year-long deployments, months-long temporary duty assignments, and frequent relocations, the complications increase to the point that sometimes survival is a family's only realistic goal. For those living this life, Pastor Steve Davis provides a book "packed with wit and wisdom for the military family" * that contains "page after page of practical, Biblical advice on how to make the military family work." * Combining his own years of experience serving military families with input from dozens of service members and their spouses, he lays out a strategy to move a marriage from survival mode to long-term thriving. Surviving the Military Marriage "is the book I wish we'd had when (my military) dad retired. And this is the book I wish I had been given when I first became a pastor to military people." * (* From the Foreword by Pastor Michael Fletcher).