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Passionate Marriage: Sex, Love, and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships Review

August 26th, 2010 Anita Bruton No comments
Passionate Marriage: Sex, Love, and Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships

Couples with relationship problems that they cannot fix and do not even really understand may well find this book to be a lifeline, but they should not assume that following the Passionate Marriage approach will make them happy in the end.Dr. Schnarch’s thesis (highly simplified) is that married couples often wind up in “emotional gridlock” [...]

A Wife’s Guide to In-laws: How to Gain Your Husband’s Loyalty Without Killing His Parents Review

August 26th, 2010 Joe Dimon No comments
A Wife

This book is a must-read for anyone having meddlesome in-laws who won’t take “no” for an answer.Jenna writes in an entertaining and informative way, making this book a pleasure to read.She even uses a very clever mechanism to get your guy’s attention.This book will not only help you with your in-law issues, it will help [...]

Marriage On and Off the Rocks: Intimate Stories of Marriages that Made It and Others that Didn’t Review

August 25th, 2010 Loren Gross No comments
Marriage On and Off the Rocks: Intimate Stories of Marriages that Made It and Others that Didn

This thought provoking and soul-searching book tells the true stories of the marriages of 24 different couples.Some of the couples have been able to save their marriages and others have not.This is not a conventional self-help book that tells couples what to do save their marriage.The true stories in Marriage On and Off the Rocks [...]

Marriage Insurance Review

August 22nd, 2010 Michael Russell No comments
Marriage Insurance

This book contains some valuable information for “ALL” couples, young and old alike. Mr. Harley takes all the quess work out and puts today’s relationships into laymens words. I would highly recommend this book to everyone who wants a life time of happiness in a marriage. The book tells it like it is and should [...]

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Surrendering to Marriage Review

August 20th, 2010 Zaid Shakir No comments
Surrendering to Marriage

This is a book that appeared on Oprah, and to a certain extent the message of this book is similar to that of another Oprah-lyte, Dr. Phil, who says “Would you rather be right than happy?”Krasnow is not arguing that you surrender to your husband or make yourself subserviant.Krasnow simply recognizes that people are imperfect, [...]

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Toxic In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage Review

August 20th, 2010 christopher knight No comments
Toxic In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage

I often recommend Susan Forward’s other books, “Toxic Parents” and “Emotional Blackmail” in my ministry for adult children of abusive or controlling birth-families (Luke 17:3 Ministries).I read “Toxic In-Laws” in the hopes of adding yet another dimension to the damage overbearing or controlling parents can do to your life.I liked how the book started out, [...]