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75 Habits for a Happy Marriage

Author : Ashley Davis Bush

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 32,32 MB

Release : 2013-08-18

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1440562253

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The stresses and strains of life can unravel the tight bond you once had with your spouse, leaving you feeling lonely, frustrated, and unfulfilled. 75 Habits for a Happy Marriage shows you how to restore that intimate and joyful union with simple, positive actions that bring you closer together throughout the day. Based in neuroscience, psychology, and real world experience, these powerful techniques are easy to incorporate into busy schedules and will inspire readers to give their marriages the time they deserve. They’ll learn how to transform their relationship with meaningful gestures that instantly enhance communication and intimacy through exercises, including: • Before getting out of bed in the mornings, take one minute to meditate together, helping the tenderness and compassion you feel for your partner to stay with you throughout the day • At the end of each day, hug your partner for at least 20 seconds and tell them how glad you are to be home • Create a secret signal that only your partner recognises allowing you to make an intimate connection even when you’re at the grocery store, at a cocktail party, or at dinner with your family • This interactive guide will empower readers to enhance their connection shared with their partners in order to build a joyful and long-lasting marriage. With the guidance and practices detailed in 75 Habits for a Happy Marriage, you will enrich the bond you share with your partner and build a happy, supportive, and long-lasting marriage.



The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages

Author : Shaunti Feldhahn

Publisher : Multnomah

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 42,40 MB

Release : 2013-12-31

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1601423608

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“Where does ‘highly happy’ come from—and can we have some too?!” Have you ever looked at a blissfully married couple and thought, I wish I could know their secret? Now you can. After years of investigative research, Shaunti reveals twelve powerful habits that the happiest marriages have in common. Best news of all? Anyone can learn the secrets of a highly happy marriage! In The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages, Shaunti Feldhahn shares her findings about little, very unexpected, often overlooked actions that make a huge difference. You’re about to discover that highly happy couples: • Go to bed mad • Keep score (just not in the way you think) • Boss their feelings around • Have factual fantasies • Get in over their heads • Don’t tell it like it is • Don’t look to marriage to make them happy… Packed with eye-opening research and practical helps, this book delivers relationship insights that will take your marriage from “just fine” to “just the marriage we’ve always wanted.”





Fierce Marriage

Author : Ryan Frederick

Publisher : Baker Books

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 34,42 MB

Release : 2018-04-17

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1493412779

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Ryan and Selena Frederick were newlyweds when they landed in Switzerland to pursue Selena's dream of training horses. Neither of them knew at the time that Ryan was living out a death sentence brought on by a worsening genetic heart defect. Soon it became clear he needed major surgery that could either save his life--or result in his death on the operating table. The young couple prepared for the worst. When Ryan survived, they both realized that they still had a future together. But the near loss changed the way they saw all that would lie ahead. They would live and love fiercely, fighting for each other and for a Christ-centered marriage, every step of the way. Fierce Marriage is their story, but more than that, it is a call for married couples to put God first in their relationship, to measure everything they do and say to each other against what Christ did for them, and to see marriage not just as a relationship they should try to keep healthy but also as one worth fighting for in every situation. With the gospel as their foundation, Ryan and Selena offer hope and practical help for common struggles in marriage, including communication problems, sexual frustration, financial stress, family tension, screen-time disconnection, and unrealistic expectations.



How They Make It Work... 21 Habits of a Successful Marriage

Author : Ed Wimberly

Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Page : 108 pages

File Size : 41,98 MB

Release : 2020-02-14

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 1098004353

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Throughout the course of my 45 years in private practice, I have at times wondered how it is that some couples do so well beyond therapy and on their own to improve and progress, while others who initially improve through the counseling process seem to fall back into many of their old and self-defeating habits. It took me a while but I now understand that often, those couples who fall back into their old destructive habits usually do so because they neglect to replace them with new and productive ones. Removing dysfunctional habits must be followed by developing new and healthy habits. "How They Make it Work..." addresses 21 new habits I have consistently observed through follow-up contacts that seem to help couples continue to thrive and to grow on their own beyond professional intervention. At the end of each of the 21 chapters are several questions designed to help you process together the new habits that are being suggested here. Since they have worked for others, there is more than a good chance they will work for you. Testimonials "Dr. Wimberly's book was thought provoking, straight forward and easy to apply in our effort to build a healthier, more successful marriage." Barbie Krabacher, early childhood educator "Rich in wisdom and helpful insights from an experienced therapist" Gordon Hess, Ph.D., retired therapist "HOW THEY MAKE IT WORK...21 Habits of a Successful Marriage is a straight forward guide to helping and healing any relationship. If you want to love and be loved in your relationship, here is a compass to help find your way". Noah BenShea, international best selling author, philosopher and speaker. "More than just a list of ideas to make a marriage better. Ed's book tackles the tough and underlying issues that can sabotage a relationship." B. Kirkpatrick, author of "Hard Left" and "The Resurrection of Johnny Roe". "Dr. Wimberly has with wisdom, humor and common sense, translated psychological principles into a highly useful guide for couples who want to improve their relationship". Dr. James Hilkey, forensic psychologist.



What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage

Author : Amy Sutherland

Publisher : Random House

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 23,47 MB

Release : 2008-02-12

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1588366901

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While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life–namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home. The next time her forgetful husband stomped through the house in search of his mislaid car keys, she asked herself, “What would a dolphin trainer do?” The answer was: nothing. Trainers reward the behavior they want and, just as important, ignore the behavior they don’t. Rather than appease her mate’s rising temper by joining in the search, or fuel his temper by nagging him to keep better track of his things in the first place, Sutherland kept her mouth shut and her eyes on the dishes she was washing. In short order, Scott found his keys and regained his cool. “I felt like I should throw him a mackerel,” she writes. In time, as she put more training principles into action, she noticed that she became more optimistic and less judgmental, and their twelve-year marriage was better than ever. What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that Sutherland began using the training techniques with all the people in her life, including her mother, her friends, her students, even the clerk at the post office. In the end, the biggest lesson she learned is that the only animal you can truly change is yourself. Full of fun facts, fascinating insights, hilarious anecdotes, and practical tips, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage describes Sutherland’s Alice-in-Wonderland experience of stumbling into a world where cheetahs walk nicely on leashes and elephants paint with watercolors, and of leaving a new, improved Homo sapiens.



The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Author : John Gottman, Ph.D.

Publisher : Harmony

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 23,93 MB

Release : 2002-02-04

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0609899538

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Just as Masters and Johnson were pioneers in the study of human sexuality, so Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages. This book is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward in their approach, yet profound in their effect, these principles teach partners new and startling strategies for making their marriage work. Gottman helps couples focus on each other, on paying attention to the small day-to-day moments that, strung together, make up the heart and soul of any relationship. Being thoughtful about ordinary matters provides spouses with a solid foundation for resolving conflict when it does occur and finding strategies for living with those issues that cannot be resolved. Packed with questionnaires and exercises whose effectiveness has been proven in Dr. Gottman's workshops, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the result of Dr. John Gottman's many years of closely observing thousands of marriages. This kind of longitudinal research has never been done before. Based on his findings, he has culled seven principles essential to the success of any marriage. Maintain a love map. Foster fondness and admiration. Turn toward instead of away. Accept influence. Solve solvable conflicts. Cope with conflicts you can't resolve. Create shared meaning. Dr. Gottman's unique questionnaires and exercises will guide couples on the road to revitalizing their marriage, or making a strong one even better.



Habits for a Happy Marriage

Author : Beth Baus

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 20,43 MB

Release : 2019-03-03

Category :

ISBN : 9780982524060

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As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I've spent years helping couples to develop more effective ways to communicate and ultimately strengthen their relationships. I've also spent countless hours studying and researching on the subject. But if truth be told, my greatest training came from being married for over 37 years to my husband Mike. This book, Habits for a Happy Marriage was written to help you achieve success in your relationship by giving you the tools and strategies you need to replace those unhealthy habits with healthier ones. I used to believe that the real act of marriage took place at a church alter. I was mistaken. The real act of marriage takes place in a person's heart and mind. It's there we make the choice to love one another, in the good times and the bad. Not just on our wedding day, but repeatedly, as the years go by. What we decide in those every day choices have a direct reflection on our behavior towards one another and the outcome of this momentous journey called marriage. My hope and prayer are that you come before God with an open heart ready to learn, grow and change for the betterment of you and those you love. Beth D. Baus



The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Author : John Gottman, PhD

Publisher : Harmony

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 37,92 MB

Release : 2015-05-05

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0553447718

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Over a million copies sold! “An eminently practical guide to an emotionally intelligent—and long-lasting—marriage.”—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work has revolutionized the way we understand, repair, and strengthen marriages. John Gottman’s unprecedented study of couples over a period of years has allowed him to observe the habits that can make—and break—a marriage. Here is the culmination of that work: the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else. Packed with new exercises and the latest research out of the esteemed Gottman Institute, this revised edition of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.



As the Crow Flies

Author : Zunder Lekshmanan

Publisher : Notion Press

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 16,31 MB

Release : 2018-09-26

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 1644292823

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Technically, As the Crow Flies is supposed to be a direct path between two points. The direct route, despite its lackluster appeal, has an element of fun to it. What do you do when a street dog looks at you menacingly during your morning walk? What are the two words that would get you out of any difficult situation? What are the four words that will help you cope with any situation? Do you wonder if life is a journey or destination? What is your reaction when your kids ask a question for which you have no answer? How do you feel if you go without your favorite dish for a month? What is the essential vocabulary that you need to learn in a non-native language? This collection of articles will give you no answers but make you ask, ‘What would be my reaction in similar circumstances?' After reading this collection, you will be neither wealthier nor wiser. Nor will it transform you in twenty-four hours. However, the questions dormant in your mind will awaken, and you will become aware of and begin loving your inconsistencies. There are no perfect souls. Let us learn to love the incorrigible self!