Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America’s Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship
In 1994, Dr. John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washingto— made a startling announcement: Through scientific observation and mathematical analysis, they could predict—with more than 90 percent accuracy—whether a marriage would succeed or fail. The only thing they did not yet know was how to turn a failing marriage into a successful one, so Gottman teamed up with his clinical psychologist wife, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, to develop intervention methods. Now the Gottmans, together with the Love Lab research facility, have put these ideas into practice. In Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage, the Gottmans share this vital information so that couples can develop the skills to turn their relationship problems around and create strong, lasting...
Full ReviewBringing Out the Best in Your Wife: Encourage Your Spouse and Experience the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted
Most “relationship books” are written for women, but women aren’t the only ones who want happy, enduring marriages. Bringing Out the Best in Your Wife is written with men in mind, men who want to build a satisfying relationship but just aren’t sure how. The secret, Dr. H. Norman Wright reveals, is mutual affirmation. But first, husbands have to understand that women receive respect and encouragement differently than men. When husbands discover how to speak the language of love their wives understand, relationships are taken to a whole new level. Dr. Wright lays out biblical and practical ways husbands can bring out the best in their wives. Readers will find firsthand testimonies from men just like them, who share...
Full ReviewLove Never Ends: Growing Together in Marriage and Faith
Many of today’s families struggle in nurturing their children in the Christian faith beyond attending church services. Finding time at home to talk together about faith can be challenging when so much else demands attention. At Home with God gives families with school-age children (ages 6 to 11) solid spiritual help. Designed to bring a family together in worship at home for 10 to 15 minutes each day, the devotions require little to no advance preparation and speak to families large and small. You’ll find in this book’s pages for the days from September through May: daily devotions based on specific scriptures prayers and litanies to say and learn together stories and activities to share songs to sing with...
Full ReviewThe Five Senses of Romantic Love: God’s Plan for Exciting Sexual Intimacy in Marriage
Sharing insights from Song of Songs, author Sam Laing says that married sexual love should be the most fulfilling because it is God s plan, and God flat-out knows how to do things right! Showing how the married lovers in the Song celebrate their sexual relationship by involving all five senses, Sam helps us to throw off inhibitions to wholeheartedly embrace God s plan and our spouses as well. About Sam Laing Known for his spiritual wisdom and insight, Sam Laing has ministered to people for more than thirty-five years both in the US and abroad. He is the author of numerous books including Be Still, My Soul, The Guilty Soul’s Guide to Grace and Friends and Lovers. He...
Full ReviewThe Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved
BUILD THE STRONG, DEEPLY POWERFUL RELATIONSHIPS YOU’VE ALWAYS DESIRED We all crave the heartwarming, incomparable connection of intimacy. But oftentimes, this complete, unrestrained sharing of ourselves is too daunting a task. Now, in The Seven Levels of Intimacy, Matthew Kelly explains step by step how to move beyond our fears and experience the power of true intimacy. By achieving each of Kelly’s seven levels, we can understand and gain confidence in our partners and ourselves until we are fully able to experience love, commitment, trust, and happiness. With profound insight and the use of powerful and relatable examples, The Seven Levels of Intimacy redefines the most important relationships in our lives and how we view our interactions with one...
Full ReviewThe 10 Best Decisions a Couple Can Make: Bringing Out the Best in Your Relationship
Bill and Pam Farrel, bestselling authors of Men Are Like Waffles—Women Are Like Spaghetti, lead husbands and wives through the ten most influential decisions a couple can make to shape a lasting and loving marriage. Exploring romance, communication, sex, conflict resolution, family, and personalities, the Farrels walk couples through the ten decisions that will turn me and me into “we” strengthen the foundation of their family redeem past bad choices and give hope for a solid future bring balance to roller coaster emotions create a life together of trust, grace, and understanding Filled with practical advice, biblical insights, and the Farrels’ trademark warmth and wit, this manual is a terrific gift for newlyweds and...
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