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

by Henry Cloud, John Townsend

Overview

You don’t have to sink or swim in your marriage. Sail off into the sunset with the love of your life.
Most marriages need rescue at one time or another. So when you need help, it’s usually due to those thoughtless things you do or say that break the delicate connection between husband and wife.Before you face storms in your marriage (or if you’re already in one), turn to psychologists and best-selling authors Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend. They offer real solutions and biblical insight for couples who want to keep the wind in their sails of romance.You’ll fi nd forty practical, irresistible ways to steer clear of, or resolve, all the “dumb” things that can scuttle our most cherished relationship. Insightful advice, along with true stories from the authors’ clinical practice, will strengthen your marriage or help get it back on course.
Discover how to…

• Avoid Bringing Out the Worst in Each Other
• Get Exactly What You Need Out of Marriage
• Rebuild Trust After Great Betrayal
• Reignite Sexual Passion
• Accept That There Are No Perfect 10s and Very Few 9s
• Reconnect, Even When All Seems Hopeless
• Love When You Don’t Even Like
• Escape Stupid Temptations to Be Unfaithful

Whether you’re simply sailing in choppy waters or braving a relational typhoon, reach for this lifeline—Rescue Your Love Life—so you and your mate can recapture the fun, happiness, and romance you deserve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780785289159
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	08/24/2009
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Henry Cloud is a clinical psychologist, pastor to pastors, and New York Times bestselling author. His 45 books, including the iconic Boundaries, have sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Throughout his storied career as a clinician, he started treatment centers, created breakthrough new models rooted in research, and has been a leading voice on issues of mental health and leadership on a global scale. Dr. Cloud lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Tori, and their two daughters, Olivia and Lucy.

Dr. John Townsend is a nationally known leadership consultant, psychologist, and author, selling over 10 million books, including the New York Times bestselling Boundaries series. John founded the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling and the Townsend Leadership Program. Dr. Townsend travels extensively for corporate consulting, speaking events, and to help develop leaders, their teams, and their families. John and his family live in Southern California and Texas. Visit DrTownsend.com.

Editorial Reviews

If your marriage is drowning in a sea of good intentions and misplaced priorities, faith-based clinical psychologists Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend are here with a couple-sized life preserver. Rescue Your Love Life offers 50 irresistible attitudes and behaviors designed to resuscitate any troubled relationship. As in God Will Make a Way and Boundaries, the authors use memorable examples illustrate their precepts.

Reconnecting with your mate is the goal of this uneven guide by Cloud and Townsend, the authors of the million-selling Boundaries series on relationships. Here, they offer a comprehensive look at virtually every way a marriage can disconnect. They also provide tested and successful solutions to these problems as they address issues such as unreasonable expectations, personality differences, and problems with communication, trust, sex and conflict resolution. Their advice ranges from the obvious"Don't criticize or put down your mate" to seasoned counsel stemming from a deep understanding of how marriages really work (such as when they conclude that couples "must go through reality to get to love"). The book is refreshingly honest in its push to get couples to examine themselves closely and pinpoint problems, as well as create appropriate solutions. Its comprehensiveness, however, is also its weakness. Skimming the surface of the huge topic of marriage makes for limited ability to plumb the depths of specific problems and solutions. While this is an excellent primer for discovering marriage-ending troubles and taking beginning steps toward reconnecting, the deep work of repair must be found elsewhere, perhaps in the workbook that will be published simultaneously. (Sept.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

After writing several other books based on Christian principles, these two authors apply their sensibilities to preserving difficult marriages. Their sincerity and vocal spontaneity overcome the wordiness of this text to present a well-organized overview of what individuals need to feel fulfilled in their marriages. In spite of the obligatory Bible citations, the material has common-sense clarity and no obvious religious dogmatism or piety (compared to many other relationship audios with Christian foundations). The friendly authors emphasize choice, authenticity, respect, and personal responsibility as being most influential in the climate of a marriage. Picking up momentum as it progresses, the program is an impressive collection of wisdom that many married couples will appreciate. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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