Joy of Committed Love

Joy of Committed Love

Author: Gary Smalley

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780310449010

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Explaining the differences between the sexes, this book looks at the basic division between men and women. The author argues that men are, in actual fact, more violent when angry than women who tend to be more verbal. The book offers new insights into the reasons a wife is more likely to nurture a relationship, even though her husband doesn't carry the instinctive awareness of what the relationship should be. Every relationship can be fufilling, the secret lies in knowing, understanding and honouring your mate. Whether married for two weeks or 20 years, this book carries important facts for loving couples and their lives together. Better or for Best.


How to Be an Adult in Relationships

How to Be an Adult in Relationships

Author: David Richo

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1611809541

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This beloved book has touched hundreds of thousands of lives with its profound and actionable advice. Retaining the core message of becoming more mindful in our relationships, this edition includes new and revised material that addresses how we live and love today. A new preface touches on David Richo’s experience with the book over time and outlines the key updates, including attention to online dating and modern communication styles as well as new perspectives on anger and ending relationships. “Most people think of love as a feeling,” says Richo, “but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.” How to Be an Adult in Relationships explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships. Adult love is based on a mutual commitment to what Richo calls the “five A’s”: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing. Brimming with practical exercises for couples and singles, How to Be an Adult in Relationships offers heartening insights into a lifelong journey of love. Topics include: • Becoming conscious of our relationship patterns and how they relate to childhood • Recognizing and attracting someone who can show adult love • Understanding the phases relationships go through • Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries • Overcoming fears of abandonment and engulfment • Expressing anger and other emotions in adult and loving ways • Surviving break-ups with our self-esteem intact • Understanding love as a spiritual journey


Happy Together

Happy Together

Author: Suzann Pileggi Pawelski, MAPP

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0143130595

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How do you get to “happily ever after”? In fairy tales, lasting love just happens. But in real life, healthy habits are what build happiness over the long haul. Happy Together, written by positive psychology experts and husband-and-wife team Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James O. Pawelski, is the first book on using the principles of positive psychology to create thriving romantic relationships. Combining extensive scientific research and real-life examples, this book will help you find and feed the good in yourself and your partner. You will learn to develop key habits for building and sustaining long-term love by: • Promoting a healthy passion • Prioritizing positive emotions • Mindfully savoring experiences together • Seeking out strengths in each other Through easy-to-follow methods and fun exercises, you’ll learn to strengthen your partnership, whether you’re looking to start a relationship off on the right foot, weather difficult times, reignite passion, or transform a good marriage into a great one.


Secrets To Lasting Love

Secrets To Lasting Love

Author: Gary Smalley

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-02-08

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0684850516

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Gary Smalley is one of the world's foremost speakers and experts on love and relationships. His gift for helping couples create more meaningful communication and deeper understanding so that they can establish an unwavering bond is the inspiration behind Secrets to Lasting Love, the culmination of Smalley's decades of work. In it he outlines the three essential skills that move couples to the highest levels of intimacy: Respect your spouse for all of his or her individual qualities and differences from you. Communicate with each other in a way that moves conversations into deeper realms of understanding. Renew and recharge your spouse emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually -- constantly. It is not easy to recognize and then apply these skills. But Secrets to Lasting Love shows everyone how to do just that, so they can reach what Smalley calls the fifth, or ultimate, level of intimacy -- where there's a marital bond strong enough to withstand the inevitable highs and lows of life. With Gary Smalley, you will have the tools to create a heightened sense of commitment that will allow you to reach your spouse's heart and spirit.


The Wholehearted Wife

The Wholehearted Wife

Author: Erin Smalley

Publisher: Tyndale House

Published: 2014-06-20

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1624051480

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Although it takes two to have a great marriage, an important truth for any marriage partner to realize is that he or she can really change no one other than him or herself. Nevertheless, changes in just one person can have an amazing impact on a marriage relationship! Instead of focusing on “How do I have a better marriage?” this book embraces that truth, and helps women ponder the question, “How can I be the best wife I can be?” It provides every woman with skills, information, and encouragement to make a positive difference to this and future generations, by wholeheartedly investing in her marriage and her relationship with her husband today. The Wholehearted Wife is written by Erin and Greg Smalley, along with Gary Smalley, the creator and presenter of Keys to a Loving Relationship, one of the best-selling video series of all time. Recognizing that most if not all married women have either experienced a time when her marriage felt lifeless—or sat with another female friend or family member who was experiencing that situation—this book is also a wonderful resource for those times.


How to Be an Adult

How to Be an Adult

Author: David Richo

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1616433558

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Using the metaphor of the heroic journeydeparture, struggle and returnthe author shows readers the way to psychological and spiritual health.


Relationships

Relationships

Author: Dean Sherman

Publisher: YWAM Publishing

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781576582756

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With clarity and a sharp wit, Dean Sherman illuminates the often confusing and mysterious world of love, sex, and relationships in this accessible, hard-hitting examination of romantic love and sexuality in the Christian's life.Learn the secret of your "attraction gift" Discover that the real question is not "How far is too far?" Investigate the meaning and value of being in right, godly relationships with others. Build your life relationships upon God's logical, loving, and freeing precepts. Begin the healing process if you struggle with sexual sin from your past. Understand the loving and practical principles behind the relationship boundaries God has established. Relationships: The Key to Love, Sex, and Everything Else is an immediately relevant and refreshingly direct discussion of the most dynamic and foundational facet of our lives. Bold and thorough, this book is the answer for those who are disillusioned with the self-centered, anything-goes attitude modeled in much of today's media or the legalistic advice that attempts to reduce relationships to a list of rules. With balance and thoughtfulness, Dean Sherman offers a soundly biblical alternative that works.


Hidden Keys of a Loving, Lasting Marriage

Hidden Keys of a Loving, Lasting Marriage

Author: Gary Smalley

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780310402916

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Bestselling author Gary Smalley shares the principles of strong marriage by combining two of his previously published works.


Finding True Love

Finding True Love

Author: Daphne Rose Kingma

Publisher: Conari Press

Published: 2001-08-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781573245647

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Shows readers how to prepare themselves emotionally and spiritually as a prerequisite to a fulfilling relationship, through cultivating four essential qualities of the soul--faith, intention, trust, and surrender. By the author of A Lifetime of Love. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.