Welcome to Love Your First Year

Resources to help you navigate engagement so you can love your marriage.

Practical, biblical guidance for dating, engaged, and newly married Christian couples.

Hey! We're Britt & Kyler

Before we got married, so many people told us to brace ourselves because our first year would be our worst.

Well? We decided we weren’t going to let that happen.

Don’t get us wrong: That first year was tough and we made a ton of mistakes. But because we’d invested so much time on the front-end preparing for our marriage—not just planning a wedding—it was an incredible year.

We loved our first year of marriage. You deserve to love yours, too.
Britt + Kyler Nixon of Love Your First Year embracing on the couch
Britt + Kyler Nixon
Founders of Love Your First Year
SYMBIS Certified Counselors
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What you can expect from our content & resources.

Biblical
God designed marriage and has given us an instruction manual for how to have a great one–the Bible. All of our content and resources are centered around scripture.
Practical
We're not marriage therapists. We're here to give you the practical, down-and-dirty, real talk about what actually happens in marriage so you can be prepared.
Research-Based
We aim to provide a unique blend of our own experience (practical) with what research says about dating, engagement, and marriage.

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