Becoming Your Spouse's Better Half: Why Differences Make a Marriage Great [Kindle Edition]

Rick Johnson (Author)

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Product Description

It's no secret that men and women are different. And it's no secret that they don't always get along because of these differences, even when they love each other. But having a successful marriage is not about finding the perfect person to marry. It's about loving someone in an unselfish, Christlike manner. Whatever we want out of marriage--unconditional love, forgiveness, passion--that is what we have to give to our spouse. Rick Johnson shows couples how to go beyond merely tolerating each other's differences to using those God-given differences to add spice and passion to their relationship.

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Your Recipe for Marital Success

Having a successful marriage is not about finding the perfect person. It's not even about always getting along. It's about loving the imperfect person you married in an unselfish manner.

Just as a great meal is made from many ingredients, a great marriage is a combination of different traits. If men and women were the same, life would turn out pretty bland. In this witty and insightful book, Rick Johnson shows you how to go beyond merely tolerating your spouse's differences to using them to add spice and passion to your relationship.


"Rick Johnson understands the dynamics of a great relationship, and he's really good at helping others understand them too."--Will Davis Jr., author of Pray Big and Pray Big for Your Marriage

"Rick Johnson shows us how men and women are wonderfully different by design. His incredible understanding of how men think and how women think will give you much better insight into that person you married who sometimes seems like an alien."--Jim Burns, PhD, president of HomeWord; author of Creating an Intimate Marriage and Closer: Devotions to Draw Couples Together

"Conventional thinking wants us to believe that 'compatibility' is the golden key to a lasting marriage. But here Rick Johnson explains the real truth: it's our differences that make us interesting, engaged, and intimate."--Paul Coughlin, author of No More Christian Nice Guy and Married But Not Engaged


Rick Johnson is a bestselling author of That's My Son; Better Dads, Stronger Sons; and The Power of a Man. He is the founder of Better Dads and is a sought-after speaker at many large parenting and marriage conferences across the United States and Canada. To find out more about Rick Johnson, please visit www.betterdads.net.

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Product Details

• File Size: 509 KB
• Print Length: 225 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0800732502
• Publisher: Revell; 1 edition (January 1, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0038636H2
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,735 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Rick is the founder of Better Dads, a fathering skills program designed to inspire and equip men to be more engaged in the lives of their children. He develops and delivers inspirational training workshops and presentations across the country for organizations including businesses, churches, civic groups, social service agencies, hospitals, prisons, and schools.

He speaks at many large conferences across the US and Canada and is a popular keynote speaker at men's and women's retreats and conferences on parenting and marriage. He is a nationally recognized expert in several areas having been asked to deliver papers at venues such as the 2007 County of Los Angeles Child Abuse Prevention Conference and the 2008 State of New York Fatherhood Conference.

Prior to becoming a bestselling author and speaker, Rick was a small business owner for 16 years, owning and operating an environmental engineering firm. He attended George Fox University receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management and Organizational Leadership, and has a Masters in Education from Concordia University. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, has served on the Board of Directors for several community and business associations, and coaches high school basketball in his spare time.

Rick has been featured in many national publications such as New Man Magazine, Crosswalk.com, Christianity.com, Christianity Today's Men of Integrity, Relevant Magazine, Pentecostal Evangel, Thriving Family, and Proverbs 31 Ministries Magazine.

Rick has appeared on over 200 radio programs and television shows around the United States. He is the former co-host of a live, weekly radio show called, "An Hour of Honesty and Common Sense." He is a recuperating collector of Three Stooges memorabilia and is secretly addicted to cheeseburgers and Hostess Cupcakes.

Rick and his wife Suzanne have two (nearly) adult children and live in Gresham, Oregon.