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Book Preview: #1 Marriages are in dire straits all over the world. Christian marriages are no exception. You may feel as if you are in a D-minus marriage and have no idea what to do. I have help for you.
#2 Anna's marriage is not destructive, but it is disappointing and painful for her. She's not sure how to continue or even if she wants to. Yet she knows to end her marriage for these...
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Get the Summary of Amber Lia & Guy Lia's Marriage Triggers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Marriage Triggers" by Amber Lia and Guy Lia offers an intimate look into the challenges and triumphs of married life. The authors share their personal journey, from the beautifully orchestrated wedding day to the stark reality of the imperfections within themselves. They candidly discuss the hurdles they faced, including...
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Get the Summary of Julie Schwartz Gottman & John Gottman's Fight Right in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Fight Right" by Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman explores the dynamics of conflict within relationships, emphasizing the importance of healthy communication and understanding. The book introduces an AI system capable of analyzing couples' interactions, revealing patterns of escalation, trust levels,...
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Get the Summary of Jay Shetty's 8 Rules of Love in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "8 Rules of Love" by Jay Shetty explores the journey of self-discovery and personal growth as a foundation for forming loving relationships. Shetty emphasizes the importance of solitude, differentiating it from loneliness, and suggests a "solo audit" to become comfortable with oneself. He outlines a three-stage process from loneliness...
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Book Preview: #1 There are five ways to express love emotionally: words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time, and physical touch. You can become aware of your love language by considering the actions and words from your partner that fill you with love and gratitude.
#2 Touch is our first sense to develop as babies, and it's the main way of showing love to...
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Get the Summary of William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he...
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Book Preview: #1 Louise Robinette was first attracted to David when he was seventeen and she was ten. They had secret hand-holding during fiery Pentecostal services at the Church of God in Princeton, West Virginia. She would later say she would marry him and have twelve children.
#2 King Turpin Jr. had a religious experience in Kentucky that led him to become a preacher, and he moved...
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Get the Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you probably still struggle with anger, sadness, resentment, or shame. As a child, your emotional needs were not met, your feelings were dismissed, and you likely took on adult...
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Get the Summary of John Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman's The Love Prescription in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Love Prescription" by John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman explores the challenges and solutions to maintaining connection in relationships, particularly under the strain of modern life and extraordinary circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic. The book delves into the concept of "bids for...
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Get the Summary of Natalie Franke's Built to Belong in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Many of us feel more alone than ever despite living in the most connected society in human history. We need to belong in the same way that we need oxygen—our physical bodies require it. We perform better and have greater successes as individuals when we are connected to the collective.
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Book Preview: #1 In 1978, I was asked to teach a thirteen-week course on marriage at my church. The topic was: what must a couple do to stay happily married. The book that resulted from this course, His Needs, Her Needs, was a bestseller and continues to be one of the most popular books on marriage today.
#2 The beginning of the end of the traditional nuclear family in America was in 1960, when I was 19 years old. I had been trying to become a marriage...
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Book Preview: #1 When we become parents, we bring with us issues from our past that influence the way we parent our children. These issues can easily get triggered in the parent-child relationship, and our responses toward our children can be strong emotional reactions, impulsive behaviors, or distortions in our perceptions.
#2 I had similar experiences as a parent, and found that...
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Get the Summary of T.A. Williams' A Little Piece of Paradise in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Having worked in Rome for four years, Sophie's excited to revisit to Italy, even if it reignites memories of a cheating ex who soon learns of her return and wants to rekindle their spark. Sophie realises that distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder — but for her friend back home,...
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Book Preview: #1 You've been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you've been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you're ready to make the choice that's been weighing on your heart.
#2 Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now,...
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#1 The foster parents were trained to use a system of points and levels to modify behavior. The kids would start on a low level and earn points every day for completing various tasks, with which they could then buy a range of privileges.
#2 I made two charts for the children. One for each child. On each chart, I had written three statements. For each successfully completed...
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#1 The phone rings. I am standing on a stool reaching up for a cookbook that's sitting right in the farthest corner of the top shelf. I have just finished clearing up after the children's dinner, and my foster child, Lily, has announced her decision to become a vegetarian.
#2 I have been working hard to help Lily learn to control her temper and her desire to always be...
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#1 I was adopted, and my dad wanted me to have clear skin so people wouldn't stare at me. He gave me a Clearasil regimen, which didn't work.
#2 My dad, a biology professor at an Ole Miss, was the academic advisor for the premed football players. He cooked for them, and they would come over for dinner. As I got older, this became less and less, until it was just premed...
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#1 I had night terrors as a child, and I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling my chest tighten and my heart race. I would never let boys see my privates, even if they were tricked into doing so.
#2 I was the difficult child, and I knew it. I was always getting in fights, and my mother never seemed to understand or believe me when I told her about them.
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#1 In 1951, Soraya was born in the village of Kupayeh, near the city of Kerman in southwestern Iran. She had come into the world on the Shah's wedding day, and was named after his bride, Princess Soraya.
#2 When Soraya was ten, her parents took her to the city to apprentice with the arbab, the wealthy landowner. The children who apprenticed there were given food and...
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#1 The idea that babies are born with the instinct not to soil themselves may seem preposterous to some, but it is true. By putting your children in diapers and changing them only after they have gone, you condition them to use the diaper itself as a toilet.
#2 Some parents are faced with double work when training their child to go to the bathroom in a diaper, and then...
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