Loving Choices

Loving Choices

Author: Bruce Fisher

Publisher: Impact Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781886230309

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The author of "Rebuilding" has created a powerful, personal, practical, and provocative guide to building new and lasting, loving relationships. "Loving Choices" is packed with insights, exercises, and examples to help readers turn life's challenges into loving choices.


Love Is a Choice

Love Is a Choice

Author: Robert Hemfelt

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 2003-02-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1418513725

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Do you want to reclaim your independence? Are you looking for guidance as you learn to set boundaries that actually serve you? If you're ready to let go of unhealthy relationships and begin your journey to healing, join Drs. Frank Minirth, Paul Meier, and Robert Hemfelt in Love Is a Choice as they walk you through their ten proven steps to recovering from codependency. In Love Is a Choice, Drs. Minirth, Meier, and Hemfelt combine decades of research with timeless biblical wisdom to show you that the most effective means of overcoming codependent relationships is to establish or deepen your relationship with Christ Himself. Love Is a Choice will teach you why God wants us to be independent and why you deserve to have healthier, more fulfilling relationships. Throughout Love Is a Choice, Drs. Minirth, Meier, and Hemfelt will lead you through their method to overcoming codependency once and for all. Along the way, Love Is a Choice will give you the tools and encouragement you need to: Discover the root causes of codependency Surround yourself with a loving, supportive community See yourself in a new light Uncover your unmet emotional needs It's time to break the cycle of codependency. Let Love Is a Choice be your guide every step of the way.


Boundaries in Marriage

Boundaries in Marriage

Author: Henry Cloud

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009-05-18

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0310319242

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Learn when to say yes and how to say no in the context of your marriage relationship. In Boundaries in Marriage, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries, teach us that healthy boundaries are the property lines that define and protect you and your spouse as individuals. Once you have them in place, a good marriage can become better, and a less-than-satisfying one can even be saved. Boundaries in Marriage will give you the tools and encouragement you need to: Set and maintain personal boundaries and respect those of your spouse Understand and practice two key ingredients to a successful marriage: freedom and responsibility Establish values that form a godly structure and architecture for your marriage Protect your marriage from different kinds of "intruders" Work with a spouse who understands and values boundaries--or with one who doesn't It's time to deepen your love by providing a better environment for it to flourish, and Drs. Cloud and Townsend are here to help. Discover how boundaries can make life better today!


Boundaries in Dating Workbook

Boundaries in Dating Workbook

Author: Henry Cloud

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0310233305

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Cloud and Townsend apply their award-winning boundaries concepts to the dating relationship. This workbook helps readers work through the principles in "Boundaries in Dating" to make the dating arena a more satisfying, productive one. Those in the dating phase can learn to enjoy its benefits to the fullest, increasing their ability to find and commit to a marriage partner.


Choices in Relationships

Choices in Relationships

Author: David Knox

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2023-02-22

Total Pages: 1035

ISBN-13: 1071870203

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Choices in Relationships takes readers through the lifespan of relationships, marriages, and families, and utilizes research to help them make deliberate, informed choices in their interpersonal relationships. Drawing on extensive research, authors David Knox, Caroline Schacht, and I. Joyce Chang challenge students to think critically about the choice-making process, consider the consequences involved with choices, view situations in a positive light, and understand that not making a choice is a choice after all. The Fourteenth Edition features over 1000 new citations, increased emphasis and discussion of diversity and inclusion throughout each chapter, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals, couples, and families. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Learning Platform / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality SAGE textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It’s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.


Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society

Marriages, Families, and Relationships: Making Choices in a Diverse Society

Author: Mary Ann Lamanna

Publisher: Cengage Learning

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9781337109666

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This best-selling text on marriages, families, and relationships combines a rigorous scholarly and applied approach with a theme especially relevant to today's dynamic global environment: making choices in a diverse society. The authors use an engaging narrative to create a highly readable text that offers insightful perspectives on the diversity of our modern society, including different ethnic traditions and family forms. The balanced presentation discusses a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., family ecology, structure-functional, interaction-constructionist, family systems, biosocial), emphasizing both social structure and the importance of individual agency, choice, and decision-making. Students are encouraged to question assumptions and reconcile conflicting ideas and values as they make informed choices in their own lives. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.


Creating Excellent Relationships

Creating Excellent Relationships

Author: Susanne M. Alexander

Publisher: Marriage Transformation LLC

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780981666679

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One factor works better than all others to create happy relationships: two people with excellent and compatible characters. This book is your vital guide to knowing and developing your own character and skillfully observing character qualities in a partner. This book provides: Ways that excellent character choices relate to family interactions, friendships, couple activities, communication, equality, spirituality, sex, and more Detailed guides for understanding qualities such as honesty, kindness, compassion, courage, commitment, helpfulness, patience, respect, and more Practical components for learning, such as activities, reflections, and worksheets Wisdom through quotations from diverse character and relationship experts and multifaith sources


Choices in Relationships - Interactive EBook

Choices in Relationships - Interactive EBook

Author: David Knox

Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated

Published: 2020-01-21

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781071807132

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Choices in Relationships takes students through the lifespan of relationships, marriages, and families, while emphasizing the decisions that affect them individually and the relationships they will be a part of. Authors David Knox, Caroline Schacht,and Joyce Chang draw on extensive research to promote critical thinking skills and provide insight into key populations, with new and increased coverage of single and LGBTQIA individuals.


I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics

I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics

Author: Jeanne Safer

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1250200407

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Do you thrust unsolicited partisan articles upon your spouse? Are you convinced that you can change your coworker’s mind, if you could only argue forcefully enough? Have you gone from befriending to “defriending” the people once closest to you? Don’t give up hope; Dr. Jeanne Safer is here to help. Since the election of Donald J. Trump, political disagreements have been ravaging our personal relationships like never before. This already widespread phenomenon will continue to grow unless we learn to fight it. From friends to relatives to lovers, no relationship is immune to this crisis. I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics draws from interviews with every type of politically mixed couple, as well as Dr. Safer’s own experiences as a die-hard liberal happily married to a stalwart conservative. The result is a practical guide to maintaining respect and intimacy in our increasingly divided world. I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics is sure to educate and entertain anyone who has felt the strain of ideological differences in their personal life. No matter which side of the fence you're on, Dr. Safer offers frank, practical advice for salvaging and strengthening your bonds with your loved ones. This book is required reading for any politically minded friend, relative, or significant other in the Trump era.