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9780849937453

Marriage You've Always Wanted : How to Grow a Stronger, More Intimate Relationship

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  • ISBN13:

    9780849937453

  • ISBN10:

    0849937450

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-12
  • Publisher: SPRING ARBOR DISTRIBUTORS
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $14.98

Summary

Your Marriage Is A Story Only You Can TellYour marriage is a story ... a tale as unique as you are. Sometimes the story is beautiful, full of "happily ever after" togetherness. Other times, the story is full of pain, sadness, or deep disappointment. The story changes as time passes. Things happen. People come and go. Everyday pressures begin to build. Unless a couple guards against it, a downward spiral of unexpressed expectations, feelings of failure, negative perceptions, and increasing self-preservation eats away at the fabric of their marriage, tempting many couples to give up - and split up.The good news is that this "cycle of disaffection" can be broken! Read The Marriage You've Always Wanted and find out how to... Recognize the four warning signs of emotional "distancing," and how to break harmful patterns that have begun to take root, Recapture the closeness you once experienced as a couple, Build a "fortress for three" around your marriage, where together with God you can build a plan for the rest of your lives together.Each chapter contains an important topic for discussion, a Bible study, and optional activities. Working together, you and your spouse can experience a newfound sense of joy, passion, and companionship - all that God intended marriage to be.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Marriage Matters vii
``Fooled Around and Fell in Love''
1(12)
Part I: Examining Your Marriage
Your Marriage Story
13(10)
Everyday Pressures That Tear at Love
23(14)
Battling Disaffection: How Couples Lose at Love
37(18)
Part II: Establishing Mutual Goals
Called to a Spiritual Task
55(16)
Getting Beyond a Closed Spirit
71(14)
Forgiveness: Seeking and Giving
85(10)
More than a Lover
95(12)
Embracing Each Other
107(10)
Emotional Undressing
117(12)
The ``Island of We''
129(10)
Part III: Experiencing God Together
The ``Island of Three''
139(10)
Soul Mates
149(10)
Part IV: Executing the Plan
The Horizon Together
159(18)
Leaders Guide: Marriage Growth Group Ministry 177(26)
Notes 203(4)
About the Authors 207

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