Rescue Your Love Life : Changing Those Dumb Attitudes and Behaviors That Will Sink Your Marriage

by Cloud, Henry

• ISBN13: 9781591453840
• ISBN10: 1591453844
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Integrity Publishers

Summary

Most marriages need rescue at one time or another. If you and your spouse are facing storms in your marriage, turn to psychologists and best-selling authors Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend. They offer 40 practical, irresistible ways to resolve all the "dumb" things we do every day to scuttle our most cherished relationship, along with true stories from the authors' clinical practice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Read This First	p. 1
My Lover Should Make Some Changes	p. 5
Change Yourself, Not Your Love	p. 6
Love Grows When Dependency Goes	p. 12
But I'm Not the Immature One	p. 18
You Make Me Crazy	p. 25
One Person Can't Change Everything, But	p. 30
My Lover Should Make Me Happy	p. 37
The Real Scoop About Happiness	p. 38
Are They Needs or Desires?	p. 43
Stop Looking for Your Other Half	p. 50
Self-Denial? You're Joking, Right?	p. 54
Lopsided Relationships Take On Water	p. 60
My Lover Should Be Perfect for Me	p. 67
There Are No Perfect 10s	p. 68
Pour On the Grace	p. 74
Sometimes Your Lover Needs a Nudge	p. 82
Vive les Differences	p. 87
Getting to the Heart of Feelings	p. 92
My Lover Should Never Hurt Me	p. 99
Hurt Happens, But You Can Handle It	p. 100
Past Hurts Present Problems	p. 104
Accepting Without Approving	p. 111
Lovers Can Bring Out the Worst in Each Other	p. 115
Resist the Temptation to Cut and Run	p. 121
My Lover Should Read My Mind	p. 129
Don't Hide Your Feelings	p. 130
Choose to Face Reality	p. 137
Are You Saying What You Really Mean?	p. 143
There's More to Listening than Hearing	p. 151
Common Communication Stoppers	p. 158
My Lover and I Should Never Fight	p. 167
Fighting for a Win-Win Solution	p. 168
The Fatal Flaw in Fairness	p. 173
Love Is Eternal When Forgiveness Never Ends	p. 178
Humility Is a Door, Not a Doormat	p. 184
How to Underreact to Overreactions	p. 190
My Lover Should Trust Me Without Question	p. 197
Trust Is a Risk You Have to Take	p. 198
Broken Trust Can Be Repaired	p. 204
Trust Thrives on Independence	p. 210
A Little Structure Won't Kill Romance	p. 216
My Lover Should Be Perfect at Sex	p. 223
Good Sex Doesn't Just Happen	p. 224
Untangling the "Nots" in Unhealthy Sex	p. 230
Keep the Home Fires Burning	p. 238
Unfaithfulness Is More than Just Adultery	p. 246
Facing Sexual Dysfunction	p. 250
Conclusion: On to the Rescue	p. 257
Works Cited	p. 260
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