Unspoken Rules of Love : What Women Don't Know and Men Don't Tell You

by BROOKS, JOELHAMMOND, MICHELLE MCKINNEY

• ISBN13: 9781578566716
• ISBN10: 1578566711
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: WaterBrook Press

Summary

Why does the modern-day search for romance so often end in disappointment especially for women? Is it something women do? Something they don't do? Are women missing important information about the opposite sexor about themselves? Is there something wrong with them that they long so desperately for "'til death do us part"? Sadly, many women today see their ongoing singleness as a weakness or lack of worth. In truth, women's dreams go unfulfilled not because they do not deserve for them to come true, but often because of wrong assumptionsassumptions that can be corrected by learning a few key truths. InThe Unspoken Rules of Love,authors Michelle McKinney Hammond and Joel Brooks seek to clear up these misperceptions, giving women the information they need to succeed in long-term, lasting male-female relationships and teaching them how to find satisfaction, value, and fulfillment in their relationship with God, both while they wait and after the wait is over. Drawing on both the perspectives of its male and female authors, this book deals with the hard issues and the questions women ponder as they consider the dilemma of how to obtain lasting love.The Unspoken Rules of Lovewill help women adjust their desires, redefine what they are attracted to, set their values in order, and determine their goalsfreeing them at last to pursue the loving relationships they desire.

Author Biography

Joel A. Brooks Jr. is the senior pastor of Christian Life Center, Kalamazoo, Michigan Michelle McKinney Hammond, founder of HeartWing Ministries

Table of Contents

Introduction
Use Your Head, Girl!	1	(12)
I Have No Man	13	(12)
Take Your Life Off of Hold
Five Husbands and Still Thirsty	25	(16)
Remove the Obstacles to Wholeness
How Much Do You Cost?	41	(12)
Know Your Value
What is Your Name?	53	(12)
Know Who You Are
Does He Want Something or Someone?	65	(12)
Know What He Wants
Protect Your Heart	77	(12)
Keep Your Heart in the Right Place
The Issue of Attraction	89	(16)
Recognize the Invisible Man
Desire vs. Need	105	(12)
Know What You Want
The Force of Patience	117	(14)
Be Patient
Magical Thinking	131	(10)
Be Realistic
The Maturity Factor	141	(12)
Separate the Men from the Boys
The Other Side of Attraction: His	153	(18)
Know How to Work It
The Power of a Woman	171	(14)
Use Your Power Wisely
Positioned to Receive	185	(10)
Close the Deal or the Door
Reading List	195	(2)
Acknowledgments	197