Making Love Last Forever

Making Love Last Forever

by Gary Smalley
Making Love Last Forever

Making Love Last Forever

by Gary Smalley

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Overview

For years Gary Smalley has helped millions of couples throughout North America enrich their relationships and deepen their bonds of love and companionship. In this extraordinary book, he shows you how to stay in love through all the stages of life. From first attraction to lifelong commitment, Gary's proven techniques and practical advice show you how to pursue and keep the love you want, and how to energize your relationship with enduring, passion-filled love.

In this book you'll learn how to:

  • Understand and use love's best-kept secret
  • Deal with the number one enemy of love
  • Turn headaches into more love
  • Increase your energy to keep loving
  • Find the power to keep on loving your spouse
  • Use normal conflicts as doorways to intimacy
  • Read a woman's built-in marriage manual twelve ways
  • Divorce-proof your marriage
  • Develop the five vital signs of a healthy marriage
  • Respond to your partner's number one request
  • Find the powerful secret to great love
  • Bring out the best in your maddening mate

With humor, empathy, and insight, Gary Smalley inspires you to fall in love with life and enjoy the deep satisfaction of a lifelong love. Down-to-earth examples, touching personal experiences, and inspiring spiritual principles will motivate you to bring about positive changes in your marriage-whether or not your mate is a willing participant. You'll learn how to tap resources at hand to help you follow through with your journey-and make your love last forever.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780849940866
Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date: 09/14/1997
Edition description: Workbook
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 1,137,010
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.55(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile: 1030L (what's this?)

About the Author

Gary Smalley was one of the country’s best-known authors and speakers on family relationships. In addition to writing The Blessing and The Two Sides of Love with John Trent, their book The Language of Love (newly revised and updated) won the Angel Award as the best contribution to family life. His national infomercial, Hidden Keys to Loving Relationships, has been viewed by television audiences all over the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
Getting the Most from This Bookxiii
Part IThe Love-for-Life Factor: How to Fall in Love with Life
1.Love's Best-Kept Secret3
2.The Number One Enemy of Love: Unresolved Anger17
3.Seven Ways to Unload Unresolved Anger35
4.You Can Turn Your "Sand Storms" into Pearls55
5.How to Balance Expectations and Reality71
6.Avoiding Hurt Is My Responsibility87
7.Finding the Power to Keep Loving103
Part IIForever-Love Principles: How to Stay in Love with Your Spouse
8.Five Vital Signs of a Healthy Marriage123
9.The Number One Request: Better Communication141
10.Understanding Personality Types: A Key to Lovability159
11.How to Bring Out the Best in Your Maddening Mate177
12.How to Read a Woman's Built-in Marriage Manual197
13.Conflicts: The Doorway to Intimacy213
14.Was That As Good for You As It Was for Me?233
15.Divorce-Proofing Your Marriage251
16.A Love That Lasts Forever265
AppendixThree Character Qualities: Prerequisites to Dating for the Smalley Children269
Notes273
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