In this book, Larry Bugen identifies disenchantment as the dynamic that drives modern couples apart, and he offers his proven RENEW system of therapy as a self-help solution. He offers reassurance that disenchantment is a natural and necessary stage in any mature relationship--the transition from romantic infatuation to lasting commitment.
What did you feel during your dating days and honeymoon? Heartfelt love? Quiet anticipation? Romantic longings? If youre like most couples, the busyness of life slowly begins to crowd out intimate time with the one you love. Renewing Your Love: Devotions for Couples helps rekindle the wonder, the romance, and the love in your marriage by providing you and your spouse an easy way to connect with each other and with God. This thirty-day devotional will help you: Hear Gods promises for your marriage. Reflect together on how you can meet each others needs, how you can celebrate your love for each other, and much more! Pray together about the pressures of life, your commitment to each other, and much more! Renew your love with practical ideas on how to know and meet each others needs, how to practice true forgiving love, and much more! Let Gary and Barb Rosberg, experienced marriage counselors and Americas Family Coaches, help you and your spouse fall in love all over again.
This six-week workbook companion to The Five Love Needs of Men and Womenis a small-group resource that helps couples more fully understand each spouse's needs and experience how they can best meet them.
A Love Renewed is a collection of stories and wonderfully crafted letters that transports you seamlessly across three continents, as you experience the heat of passion, the depths of despair, the pain of loss, and the maturing of the hearts and minds of two lovers-Harry and Camille. Harry is a writer whose love for Camille seems to be overshadowed by his desire for literary success. Four stories written by Harry weave a picture of what's in his heart and mind. He takes you to Europe and the rich, blue southwest beaches of Spain, as he acquaints you with a culture rich in tradition and national identity. He then takes you to Texas, as two people, both searching for someone to touch their hearts, shed the truths of their pasts and find each other. Yet another tale of two families joined together takes you through the jungles of Venezuela in a race to stop a bio-terrorist from spreading his venom in the United States. Harry's strategy for recovering Camille's love is an intricate plan that is played out in colorful, romantic scenes that will carry you away and warm your heart.
This eight-week workbook companion to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage is a small-group resource that helps couples meet each other's needs, heal hurts, guard their marriages, and renew their love. Includes a marriage covenant.
This first published collection of St. Josemaría’s homilies is a handsome pocket-sized book, making it perfect for individual spiritual reading. In these homilies for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and other highlights of the Church year, St. Josemaría consistently emphasizes the great truth that your most ordinary, human interests can and should reflect the presence and transcendence of God, and that you should strive always to sanctify every detail of your daily life.
Presents a guide to protecting a marriage from divorce, including information relationship experts on how to meet a partner's needs, heal hurt in marriage, and weather storms of life.
A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare’s Sonnets as Curious Perspective, by William F. Zak,seeks to identify in Shake-speare’e sonnet sequence the structural and thematic features of the satirical tradition born in Plato’s Symposium. Through this study, Zak traces the power of an idea to endure, re-animate, and enrich itself through time: Plato’s discrimination of the true nature of love in The Symposium. Born anew in its medieval reincarnations (The Romance of the Rose, The Vita Nuova, and The Canzoniere of Petrarch), the tradition begun in Plato’s Symposium was then resuscitated in the Elizabethan sonnet sequence revival, most notably in Shake-speare’s Sonnets. With extended examination of all the texts in the Q manuscript, A Mirror for Lovers makes a case for the mutually illuminating relationship among the sonnets to the fair young man and the dark lady, “A Lover’s Complaint,” and the mysterious dedication that until now have never received attention as an integral symbolic matrix of meaning.