Marriage Roulette


Book Description

The odds of having a long and happy marriage in America today are only one out of four. The facts are that two of every four marriages end in divorce and one of every four couples endures a marriage in which they are not happy. Marrying is likely the biggest emotional and financial gamble that anyone makes; shouldn't there be a way of improving the odds of success? Absolutely, and this book can help! Through careful analysis of good, bad, and failed marriages, BJ Brittain has identified the seven key factors that distinguish a successful marriage from all the others: mutual respect, humor, shared values, sexual compatibility, effective communication, emotional and intellectual fit, and tolerance. Marriage Roulette provides insight and illustration on how to recognize good fits and bad for these seven factors. If marriage is in your future, you owe it to yourself to improve your odds.




Five Steps To A Good Relationship


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From the early beginnings of a relationship to the monumental moment of walking down the aisle, there are “five steps” we all take, whether or not we are familiar with them. Understanding these five steps could be the key to establishing a lasting relationship. In Five Steps to a Good Relationship for Christian Singles, author Reed Calaway breaks down the nuances and progression of each of the five steps we take toward a committed relationship. He offers unique explanations of every season a relationship will experience prior to the decision to invest time and emotions into a person. With a Christ-centered perspective that emphasizes God’s purpose for a relationship between a man and woman, the author’s teaching uncovers the necessary wisdom that will help you avoid possible pitfalls and overcome challenges with your potential love interest. During this time of online dating and social media connections, people are coming together in an accelerated way. Young men and women are searching for the right person without taking the time to choose wisely. In Five Steps to a Good Relationship for Christian Singles, you’ll learn what attributes and qualities to look for in a potential partner while discovering how to deal with different personality types. After hours of counseling transient relationships and failing marriages as a pastor, the author wrote this practical guide to help you find the type of love that will lead to a lasting union. Throughout the book, the author covers a wide range of topics and issues that are vital for singles, dating couples, and those considering marriage. Five Steps to a Good Relationship for Christian Singles, gives you various teaching examples, personal experiences, and anecdotes that you won’t forget. With God’s guidance, each step you take toward a sound relationship will bring you closer to the person that is best for you.




How to Marry Your Second Husband* First


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As the Senior Rabbi of a 1,000 family congregation in Los Angeles, California and as the Rebbetzin (rabbi’s wife) and life partner for nearly 40 years Steven and Didi Carr Reuben have watched, met with and counseled hundreds of couples as they wrestled with the challenges, joys, successes, and failures of creating and nurturing their marriages. After decades of helping others they created this book as their unique recipe for creating a successful marriage and finding the right life partner. Filled with their particular brand of down-to-earth relationship advice and blending humor and experience both personal and professional, How To Marry Your Second Husband First is a practical “how to” guide for anyone looking for a road map to identify the qualities in themselves and a potential partner that will give them the best possible chance at finding love and creating a lasting, life-long spiritual partnership with the absolute right person.




Marriage A Search For Healing


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This work reveals those key elements that make for greater bonding with couples in therapy. The author believes that improvement in the couples he treats almost always involves greater closeness and the development of greater capacity for intimacy. Change can come about in different ways for different couples. For some, insight appears to play to play an important role. Learning about one's central problematic relationship of childhood and its re-enactment with one's partner in adult life frequently involves also learning about the ways one subtly recreates this dysfunctional relationship structure.; For others, improvement appears to be closely related to experiencing new ways of dealing with conflict. This avenue of improvement relies in part on the understanding but, even more, on learning the approaches to conflict resolution. It is as if these couples need to hear over and over again the recordings that document their insensitivities and consequent failure. They must offer Each Other The Experiences That Are Emotionally Suppportive And Crucial for emotional and physical health and also give life its meaning.; Finally, the treatment approach outline also has significant effects on the therapists. Indeed, it may be difficult to know who learns most. Involvement as a couples therapist may have all sorts of impact on the therapists, and it will come as surprise that it is in the area of the therapist's capacity for intimacy that the greatest effect can be experienced.




The Healthy Marriage Devotional


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Breathe New Life Into Your Marriage Research shows that many, if not most, longtime marriages have grown complacent or even stale. If your marriage could use some encouragement, Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family and co-host of the Focus Daily Radio Broadcast, offers a 365-day devotional inspired from his 35-plus years of marriage to his wife, Jean, and from the many marriage experts that have impacted him over the years. The Healthy Marriage Devotional provides an easy way to read Scripture, pray, and connect with your spouse to strengthen your relationship by digging into twenty-three core topics, including: Growing Through ConflictCrafting an Even Better MarriageWise Couples Do ThisAppreciating DifferencesGrow closer to God and each other, whatever your age or stage of marriage, with foundational, practical, and wise words to carry you through the year. Includes discussion questions and activities.




Marriage


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In this revised and expanded edition of Marriage: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, internationally-renowned theologian William E. May makes the case for marriage's foundational role for family, with marriage defined as the union of one man and one woman. Drawing on Pope John Paul II's "theology of the body," he explains the person-affirming, love-enabling, life-giving, and sanctifying nature of marriage. He shows how marriage is necessarily a complementary union of man and woman and how this rules out the idea of "same-sex" marriage.




I Love You But How Do I Live With You?


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Statistics show that nearly half of all first marriages end up on the rocks and finish in divorce. These figures do not take into account all the couples that don’t marry, try living together and eventually break up. Nor do they take into account all the unhappy marriages that are ‘staying together for the sake of the kids’. The incredible thing that the statistics show is that the odds of a second marriage working out are not much better. They also show that couples who try living together before they get married are no more successful at staying together than those who don’t ‘try before they buy’. I Love You But How Do I Live With You? is the long awaited companion to Des Hunt’s best-selling book What Makes People Tick: Understanding Yourself and Others. In this book you will: • Discover the personality style of yourself and your partner, plus: • A full description of yours and your partner’s personality style which reveals: Ø How you each defend yourselves Ø How you each handle conflict Ø How to relate to each other more effectively Ø How not to relate to each other Ø How to live and love for life Ø How you each see life Ø What each of you want from life Ø You loves and your hates Ø How You each want to be related to Ø How you each prefer to communicate Ø Your different strengths and weaknesses




Happily


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In the beginning, marriage doesn't seem as though it should be all that difficult. But it doesn't take long for trouble to seep in and for bad habits to become entrenched. Before long, many married couples may be wondering when the "worse" part ends and the "better" part starts. Pastor and author Kevin A. Thompson has good news for couples: the "better" part is always within reach when they practice eight specific commitments to each other. These commitments have the power to solve almost any problem a marriage faces, and to prevent new ones from occurring. With biblical insights and engaging personal stories, Thompson shows couples how to see their marriage as bigger than themselves, avoid both apathy and aggression, release the desire for power, make and maintain peace, endure difficult times, and more. Perfect for newlyweds and for married couples at any stage of life, Happily is the gateway to a more loving, more joy-filled marriage.




Marriage Advice


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You made it! You found the best marriage advice bundle on the planet, with 14 books about all kinds of topics. You'll read about: - Why you should fight naked when you're married. - Tips for the bedroom. - The most common and misunderstood myths about marriage. - What women are really looking for in a man. - How to listen better. - How to please each other. - How to make a marraige last and prevent divorce. - Communication skills between husband and wife. - Forgiveness, and how to do it. - A test to see if you are compatible with your partner.




Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give


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Seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. We hear plenty about whether or not to get married, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Clichés around marriage—eternal bliss, domestic harmony, soul mates—leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes, you might miss being single. In Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give, Ada Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which “the first twenty years are the hardest.” Calhoun’s funny, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity, existential anxiety, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave, tough, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. “What a burden,” Calhoun calls marriage, “and what a gift.”