Author: Steve Chapman
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736937617
Category : Communication in marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Believing young love is great and real love improves with age, Steve and Annie Chapman offer proven insights for creating loving, lasting marriages. What sparked Hot Topics for Couples? Annie asked Steve if meat loaf, a staple, was okay for dinner. Steve replied, "I don't like it." Amazed, Annie asked why he'd never mentioned this. "You never asked." So they decided to eliminate any areas of discomfort. Using their 35-year marriage, discussions with couples, and biblical wisdom, the Chapmans address wildfires such as: he won't talk/she won't stop talking he doesn't do housework/she's never in the mood he is the "fun parent"/she has to discipline the children he said he'd do it...someday/she never relaxes he says Dallas Cowboys game/she says Butchart Gardens Using the interactive questions, couples can make their marriages more fulfilling and exciting. Rerelease of What Husbands and Wives Aren't Telling Each Other.
Author: John Gottman
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523504463
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Whether you’re newly together and eager to make it work or a longtime couple looking to strengthen and deepen your bond, Eight Dates offers a program of how, why, and when to have eight basic conversations with your partner that can result in a lifetime of love. “Happily ever after” is not by chance, it’s by choice– the choice each person in a relationship makes to remain open, remain curious, and, most of all, to keep talking to one another. From award-winning marriage researcher and bestselling author Dr. John Gottman and fellow researcher Julie Gottman, Eight Dates offers an ingenious and simple-to-implement approach to effective relationship communication. Here are the subjects that every serious couple should discuss: Trust. Family. Sex and intimacy. Dealing with conflict. Work and money. Dreams, and more. And here is how to talk about them—how to broach subjects that are difficult or embarrassing, how to be brave enough to say what you really feel. There are also suggestions for where and when to go on each date—book your favorite romantic restaurant for the Sex & Intimacy conversation (and maybe go to a yoga or dance class beforehand). There are questionnaires, innovative exercises, real-life case studies, and skills to master, including the Four Skills of Intimate Conversation and the Art of Listening. Because making love last is not about having a certain feeling—it’s about both of you being active and involved.
Author: Jonathan D. Holmes
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310577381
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Many pastors feel ill-equipped to handle the challenges that arise when a couple is going through marital difficulties. If you are or have been in this situation before, this book shows church leaders how to counsel married couples from both a logical and biblical perspective. Author and pastor Jonathan Holmes offers you a practical guide to get started with the first sessions and then offers specific guidance on nine of the most common topics that come up in marriage counseling. In Counsel for Couples, Holmes provides you with: a biblical methodology that navigates you through the world of marriage counseling based on God’s word a theological counseling approach addressing the deepest of marital issues advice from several respected voices in the biblical counseling community In each chapter, you'll meet a new couple dealing with a different issue, much like the people in your church, office, and neighborhood. Whether you're a novice or already knowledgeable, Counsel for Couples provides theologically sound and biblically practical tools to help you as you help couples in need.
Author: Natasha Lunn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593296583
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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An investigation of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with Lisa Taddeo, Esther Perel, Emily Nagoski, Kate Bowler, Alain de Botton, Stephen Grosz, Roxane Gay and others Journalist Natasha Lunn was almost 30 when she realized that there was no map for understanding love. While she was used to watching friends fall in and out of love, the older she got the more she had to acknowledge: her friends' relationship struggles could no longer be chalked up to youth, and the more she learned about her parents, grandparents, work colleagues, and mentors the clearer it became that age had not brought any of them any closer to understanding this elusive, transformative, consuming emotion. One night during the months she found this realization settling over her, she sat up in bed and jotted three words in a notebook: conversations on love. In that moment, Lunn understood that she didn't want advice about love, she wasn't looking for the answers, or evergreen wisdom but she craved candid, wide-ranging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the parts of love that often don't make it into our everyday discussions of marriage, sibling relationships, friendships, or mother/daughter bonds. Conversations on Love started as an experiment aimed at interviewing experts about what love meant to them, in all of it's messiness, and quickly blossomed into a newsletter that attracted thousands of subscribers and a prestigious range of interviewees. It turns out that Lunn wasn't the only person ready to talk more openly and expansively about love. Interweaving personal essays and revealing interviews with some of the most sough-after experts on love, journalist Natasha Lunn guides us through the paradoxical heart of three key questions about love--How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?--to deliver a book that is a solace, a beacon, a call to arms, a tool-kit. The real-life love stories in these pages will leave you hopeful and validated, while the insights from experts will transform the way you think about your relationships. Above all, Conversations on Love will remind you what love is: fragile, sturdy, mundane, beautiful, always worth fighting for.
Author: Gary Chapman
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802483569
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Your spouse is a unique person, filled with amazing insights, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Communication is key to really knowing and fully loving that person. Bestselling author and marriage counselor Gary Chapman has developed this handy tabletop resource to get you and your spouse talking. With 101 probing questions, couples will find their relationship enhanced, their intimacy deepened, and their romance ignited. 101 Conversation Starters for Couples is the perfect companion to the bestselling book, The 5 Love Languages®. It also makes an excellent Valentines Day, wedding, and anniversary gift. It helps you and your spouse get the conversation flowing.
Author: David Bulitt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510746137
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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A Top Divorce Lawyer and a Family Therapist Show You How to Really Talk—for Better or for Worse Married for 33 years, David, a divorce lawyer, and Julie, a family therapist, have both been witness to families struggling with life’s most difficult challenges. At the same time, they have weathered their own challenges at home: raising four daughters, two biological and two adopted, and dealing with one child’s mental health and behavioral issues. What they’ve learned about saving a marriage or knowing when to call it quits, when to turn to professionals or when to try tough love, could fill a book—and it does. The Five Core Conversations for Couples tackles every corner of relationships with the wisdom, knowledge, and best advice culled from David and Julie’s unique personal and professional experiences, organized topically into the five core reasons that people come to their offices. Topics include: Disability Abuse Serious illness Estrangement And much, much more Take a look inside the hearts and minds of two marriage professionals to gain a fresh perspective into your own relationships and to have valuable and more frequent conversations with those you love.
Author: Florence Littauer
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 0800757645
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Understanding the four personality types helps couples get along better and respect each other's differences.
Author: Gary Chapman
Publisher: Moody Publishers
ISBN: 0802483585
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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101 More Conversation Starters for Couples Continue to develop intimacy and depth in your relationship with your spouse with 101 More Conversation Starters for Couples. Created by marriage experts Gary Chapman, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages, and Ramon Presson, these additional 101 questions are valuable talking points for your marital relationship. Learn your spouse's answers to fun and serious questions like: What famous person (living) would you like to meet? What is something humorous you recall about our first weeks or months of dating? If you could free someone of a burden, who would that be? Your spouse is a unique person, filled with amazing insights, thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Communication is key to really knowing and fully loving that person. Let these questions get the conversation flowing. Makes an excellent Valentine's Day, wedding, and anniversary gift
Author: Cindy Sigler Dagnan
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736933085
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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From her own hardships and deep joys, Cindy Dagnan offers refreshing perspective about how to create a strong and loving marriage. Personal illustrations, stories, conversation starters, and a couples' study guide combine the delights of humor and the richness of wisdom. Cindy delves into the day-to-day issues that impact "till death do us part" relationships and provides a fun-loving look at communication, expectations, friendship, sex, and commitment to help couples discover: What gives a marriage lasting flavor Ways to engage in great dialogue How to pray together and play together Why real life is more fulfilling than the fairy tale What is "better" than chocolate in a marriage Whether a woman explores this resource on her own or with her husband, the practical and encouraging content will help all readers create and savor the sweetness of a lasting, godly love.
Author: Tina LeBlanc
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 231
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Create Relationship Habits that Bring a Lifetime of Happiness Our Habits run our days. And our days run our relationships. Learn how to establish the Habits that can transform your connection with your partner so you can finally have the loving relationship you’ve always dreamed about. Tina and Michael LeBlanc, relationship experts and married couple, will guide you through the process of setting up a firm foundation of key relationship principles, and will teach you the 10 essential Habits you can build into your life to bring more joy and happiness. This book is a concrete guide with specific tips and exercises to complete with your partner. The 10 Habits of Happy Couples will walk you through: •The 5 Foundational Elements of a Happy Relationship •The 10 Habits of Happy Couples •Tina and Michael’s personal journey through the 10 Habits •How to understand your arguments and learn how to exit from your negative communication patterns •Learning the skills of tuning into yourself and developing emotional risk taking with your partner •Incorporating our proven “CPR” Process to help you repair from arguments and disconnection and create a resilient bond •Improving your ability to tune into your partner using our ‘ABC’s of Love’ method •Determining if you and your partner are ‘Connection-Seekers’ or ‘Safety Seekers’ and the role these play in your relationship •How to actively bring self-compassion and respect into your relationship
