Becoming a Friend & Lover [Paperback]

Dick Purnell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1995

Are you interested in finding the right person and building a quality relationship? Would you like to develop a love relationship that can be the foundation for a strong marriage? Becoming a Friend & Lover offers: practical insights for understanding the opposite sex, suggestions about how to avoid short-circuiting a good relationship, and clear ideas for enjoying the dating process--to relax and be yourself, and much more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 263 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc; Updated ed edition (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785279571
• ISBN-13: 978-0785279570
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,153,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I've read for singles about relationships., June 15, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Becoming a Friend & Lover (Paperback)

Becoming a Friend and Lover offers solid advice for singles wanting to develop solid relationships. Dick Purnell is realistic and honest about the loneliness and pressures that singles feel, and offers sound suggestions on how to deal with them. The book includes chapters on how to overcome barriers to intimacy and how to develop the physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual areas of a relationship

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Singles Resource, February 1, 2001

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This review is from: Becoming a Friend & Lover (Paperback)

Wanting something too bad, can and usually leads to difficulties down the road.

Purnell from his own life experience shows the dangers and subtelties of singleness, loneliness, dating. Guarding one's heart is a Biblical paramont and so too does this book suggest that be in a Christian single's mind when entering or preparing for relationships.

Like how he places all relationships in relationship to the First Commandment relationship.

Divorce would certainly decrease if more attention and effort was placed on the prenuptial stages and this volume is great asset to this.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must read for every single, July 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Becoming a Friend & Lover (Paperback)

This book changed the way I see dating and committed relationships in general. I have been making so many mistakes and I now know why I've had my heart broken so many times. The author was single until around 40 so he knows how to navigate the single waters in a healthy way.

He offers practical advice on how identify the real thing. Thanks Mr. Purnell, I feel grateful to you for sharing your experience. You said all the things that mom and dad were afraid to say.