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How to Love Your Wife
Some people have suggested that a successful marriage requires tremendous insight to understand and super-human effort to achieve. Others contend that happy marriages are the purview of a lucky few. In this ground-breaking book, How To Love Your Wife, Dr. John Buri makes it clear he doesn’t agree: thriving marriages can actually be achieved through sensible effort by reasonable people. But because the majority of marriages in this country consist of unions in which wives are more heavily invested in marital success than are their husbands, much of this sensible effort by reasonable people needs to be consistently initiated and maintained by men. In fact, men often hold the keys to bringing about the type of loving marriage they...
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The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers
Marriage is under siege in our time, and Christian unions are not going unscathed. Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin believes that love letters written by Christian husbands and wives of the past can help strengthen the ties that bind believing spouses today. In this anthology, he brings together letters from one or both parties in twelve significant relationships from church history. The contents range from courtship communications to proposals of marriage to final words before dying, but most have to do with the ups and downs of married life. In the end, The Christian Lover is a celebration of marriage, an intimate window into the thoughts of men and women who were deeply in love with both God and...
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Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples (Anniversary)
Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The 20th anniversary edition contains extensive revisions to this groundbreaking book, with a new chapter, new exercises, and a foreword detailing Dr. Hendrix’s updated philosophy for eliminating all negativity from couples’ daily interactions, allowing readers of the 2008 edition to benefit from his ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work. Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD., originated Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. Together they have more than thirty years’ experience as educators and therapists and their work has been translated into...
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To Find and Enjoy the Love of Your Life: A Study in the Song of Solomon
King Solomon, regarded by many as the wisest man to ever live, gave us his most prized poem of love, the Song of Solomon. Author Mark Washburn plumbs the depths of this ancient wisdom in To Find and Enjoy the Love of Your Life, daringly leading readers into the heart of this sacred love song. With sharp perception and insightful study, the obscure is made clear, and the modern reader can effortlessly identify with the Song’s young couple. Whether you are building a foundation for a future relationship, seeking advice for newfound love, or rekindling the flames of a mature marriage, Washburn’s insight will guide you into God’s timeless wisdom in this millennia-old ode to pure, biblical, passionate...
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God Is In The Small Stuff for Your Marriage
Does God care about the details of your marriage—the good, bad, and ugly of your relationship? Absolutely! God Is in the Small Stuff for Your Marriage proves it. Part of a series of books that sold in excess of one million copies, this encouraging marriage manual is one book in a four-title “Small Stuff” paperback rerelease. In their lighthearted yet thought-provoking style, Bruce & Stan remind readers that God wants to be involved in every aspect of their marriage—from communication and conflict to flirtation and fun. God Is in the Small Stuff for Your Marriage promises encouragement and challenge to readers at all levels of spiritual...
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Under the Sheets: The Secrets to Hot Sex in Your Marriage
Dr. Kevin Leman knows even married people have lots of questions about sex, but sometimes they feel too embarrassed to ask or don’t know where to turn for the best answers. For all those questions readers couldn’t imagine asking their pastor or even their close friends, Dr. Leman is ready with open ears and expert advice. With his trademark humor and wit, he offers frank answers to the burning questions all of us have about sex. Covering such topics as God’s original intentions for sex, body image, attraction, expectations, sex drive, sex after children arrive, and much more, Turn Up the Heat is comprehensive in scope and just what the doctor ordered. Readers will get not only the answers...
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Becoming Your Husband’s Best Friend: Secrets to Loving the Man You Married
Do you often feel like the only one who cares about your marriage? Tired of doing “all the work” while your husband checks out or strays? Here is a powerful new book by veteran family counselors Lisa Frisbie and her husband, Dr. David Frisbie. These two know marriage — and God has granted them a ministry of healing wounded marriages literally around the world. Read even one chapter of this new book and you’ll be hooked immediately. Highly readable — laugh out loud funny in places; other pages may make you weep. Meanwhile, you can discover how wives like you have transformed their homes by… recognizing the role unspoken expectations play in every marriage releasing their unresolved...
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How to Really Love Your Wife
Show and tell is not just for school kids. It’s for married people, too. Even though husbands and wives may truly love each other, they may have difficulty communicating the depth of their feelings. It’s not that they don’t care, but often they just don’t show it enough. In this handy, easy-to-read book and its companion book How to Really Love Your Husband, marriage counselor H. Norman Wright offers hundreds of practical ideas for those spouses who are looking for ways to express their love in word and deed. Each book is filled with wisdom and insight for everyday ways for husbands and wives to put the romance and pizzazz back into their marriage and keep it...
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