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You set boundaries, or as long-married, bestselling author Jerry Jenkins says, “I plant hedges.” Jenkins shares a list he created and adheres to as a gift of love for his wife. These rules are intended to protect his marriage by guarding his eyes, his heart, and his hands.

Getting Back Together is the solid, comprehensive guide you can count on to get your relationship back on track. No matter what issues you may face, this step-by-step program shows you how to take the initiative, reconcile your differences, and remake your relationship - from the ground up. In this completely revised edition, Drs. Young and Goetz provide the most current studies and relationship evaluation tools available. They also include numerous inspiring real-life stories of couples that have resurrected and renewed their relationships.

Part autobiography, part road map for finding true love and the life you’ve always wanted, Why Waiting Works offers practical advice to avoid the common pitfalls made by many when it comes to sex and dating. It is a "how to" for doing relationships in a different way, deconstructing the myths and misconceptions associated with the often misunderstood but vital to understand subject. It uncovers the timeless principle of delayed gratification to get what we want most instead of just what we want right now - in every area of our lives.

Are you tired of failing in your romantic relationships? Do you understand the male species? How can 24 men help you be a better lover? From salesmen to top executives, single to married, divorced to never married, fathers to mentors, these 24 men warmly invite women of all races, ages, and gender preferences into a room to truly understand the way men think. No two men are the same, but they all share one common goal...to be understood.

As any couple can attest, maintaining a marriage is always easier said than done. But no matter where you and your spouse have been - and no matter where you need to be - there are practical steps you can take to take your marriage from better to B.E.S.T.

Love Like You Mean It gives husbands and wives a biblical understanding of what real love looks like in marriage by unpacking the 10 attributes of genuine love listed in 1 Corinthians 13.

Every relationship has its highs and lows, but we often don't know what to do with our "lows," or how we ended up there. What is creating friction, exacerbating our pain, and standing in the way of intimacy? More often than not, it is the stories of our past drifting into the present. But if we are willing to look at them closely, we will be able to write a new story for the future. With more than seventy years of therapeutic experience combined, Dan Allender and Steve Call demonstrate how God is inviting you and your partner to a wild faith journey with the hope of transformation.

We've all been told that a relationship takes work. However, what exactly is that work? This book offers the simple tools to place you on that path to a lasting, fulfilling relationship. If you're single, dating, engaged, married, or in a same-sex relationship, then this book is for you. It takes you out of the traditional mindset of how a relationship is supposed to flow.

Many people lack the joy that enables us all to live vibrantly in Christ because of distractions that cause us to struggle with embracing the liberty in knowing our identity. In I Am, Brittney Williams exposes the devices that the enemy uses against women to steer them away from purpose by providing tools that focus on anchoring the listener personally, spiritually, and relationally.

An important and transformative guide that addresses the protective, yet dysfunctional dynamic where couples avoid genuine connection with an unsatisfying pattern of false intimacy. Drawing on their extensive clinical experience, the authors look at "song and dance" behavioral routines repeatedly performed by couples in irrelationships and delve into the most difficult emotions and actions to help listeners achieve personal breakthroughs.

Unfortunately, too many people jump right into bed and begin a relationship without taking the time to think. They forgot to ask themselves and the prospective companion some questions first. I mean, the type of questions that matter.

After 45 years of marriage, celebrated author and poet Abigail B. Calkin explores the complicated relationship she has with her husband who served three tours of duty in two different wars. Raw, riveting, and engaging, Calkin recounts how war and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shaped their marriage and family. Told in prose and poetry, The Soul of My Soldier is a vivid exploration of the history of war on family, the extended and significant impact war has on loved ones, and how war affects deployed military personnel far beyond their tour of duty.

How can love, which is so beautiful and fun, cause such emotional ups and downs? Dr. Jason B. Whiting, a researcher and family therapist, shares stories and scholarship about relationships to show that deception is at the root of most couple problems. Learn to overcome deception and strengthen the trust and connection you've been wanting in your relationship.

In this strategy-packed book, I have put together more techniques than you will probably need to become an excellent communicator. If you can just learn to implement these simple B.E.S.T. steps into your behavior, you will be astounded at how they can help you reengage with your loved one and solidify the bond between you both.

Many individuals are struggling to make sense of their unwanted sexual behaviors. In Treating Sexual Addiction: A Compassionate Approach to Recovery, Dr. Kevin Skinner begins by defining what sex addiction is and what it is not. Then, using the recovery capital model to explain what successful people do in recovery, the author provides suggestions and solutions on how to increase your recovery capital. Learn how to overcome common barriers to recovery such as loneliness, low self-worth, and stress.

People in resilient relationships are co-owners, experience reciprocity, and are better prepared to meet challenges authentically and effectively. This invaluable sequel to the best-selling Irrelationship reviews the concept created by the authors and develops the DREAM Sequence, a tool for couples to address the perennial issues facing relationships, striving for meaningful connection, and maintaining intimacy, which results in the desired goal of “relationship sanity”.

You may think that you know the women who are in your life today. We will take a closer look and see what the Word of God has to say about them. I have placed some women experiences in this book so you can hear about their experiences with the men that were in their lives. While writing this book, my intentions are not to justify any inappropriate behaviors, but to enlighten the male understanding of the women in their lives, and see how God values them in his earthly creation.

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey to deepen your relationship and understand your partner on a profound level? Do you feel like past traumas and hidden biases are affecting your relationship, leading to misunderstandings and conflicts? Are you seeking practical tools to boost intimacy, trust, and emotional connection with your partner? If so, then this book is for you.

Filled with positive, life-affirming stories and coping strategies, this resource will help same-sex couples deal effectively with the daily challenges and stresses of homophobia within their family, workplace, and community.

Upgrading from "married" to "married with children" can be stressful. Think about it: Who loves to find him or herself in a minivan loaded with noisy kids? Or, as much as you love your children and work hard to nurture them for the future, the challenges that come with parenthood can make the "for better or for worse" promise a hard one to honor.