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Grown-Up Girlfriends: Finding and Keeping Real Friends in the Real World (Focus on the Family)

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I absolutely LOVED this book!! Erin Smalley and Carrie Oliver have done an amazing job explaining the different kinds of friendships that women have and how we handle each friendship. I appreciate the fact that they both have shared some very personal stories about both healthy and failed friendships in their lives. I enjoyed this book so much that I have ordered a few more to give to my closest girlfriends. If you have ever been hurt or struggled through a broken friendship, you have got to read this book! It will help you view your friendships differently and possibly bring some healing. It did for me, anyway. It will also make you value and treasure your closest friends all the more. You won't regret purchasing this book. :)

Fabulous, informative, and a great book to enrich your friendships.
Caught my attention immediately - Erin and Carrie have great insights in this book on how to grow up you friendships with your girl friends.
Loved it - take it on vacation this summer and share it with your friends for Mother's day!

I found this book extrememly helpful as I walk through my "grown up" friendships. This book offers not only concrete ways of being a better friend, but also how to move on from those friendships that are damaging. I appreciated the real stories from both women on their journeys through healthy and unhealthy friendships. I felt like they really said what we as Christian women think, but don't always have the guts to say or do. It really challenged me to look at friendship in a more mature manner. This book would make a great gift for those women close to to you.

As the authors wrote candidly from their own experiences, sharing insights many would not dare touch upon, I felt a connection from the get-go. It is an easy read, like sitting down and having coffee with a good friend who is chocked full of truth and reality about the rich and challenging aspects of the deepest of friendships. Half way through, I bought a copy for my daughter, and she felt the same!

This book really breaks it down for you. I really enjoyed the 'Friend Baskets' I even bought a few extras and recommended the book to my MOPS group.

we got this book for our small group to read as a group study. it's terrific! some of the girls who don't usually get involved have started out really getting into the book and discussions. it's pretty much what we hoped for - an interesting look at developing friendships with other women as adults. we're not all at the same level spiritually, and some of us are just starting out with this "friendship thing", so this book is nearly perfect! i love that they bring the science of human nature into it as well - why women are they way we are from a scientific perspective. :)

This was an excellent book with great insight into the many facets of female relationships. I finished the book in three days and refer to it often in dealing with my own "grown-up girlfriends." I appreciated Smalley's and Oliver's research of the material as well as their own personal stories sprinkled throughout the book. Their honesty and transparency allowed for great examples of the points made throughout the book. Their professional expertise blended with their own girlfriend experiences come together for a wonderful handbook to be used and reused!

Using anecdotes, Bible verses, and word pictures to describe a myriad of complex relationships, these two authors guide women toward a better understanding of how friendships grow. A Focus on the Family book.

I checked this out of my church library. I felt that with my recent move, I could brush-up my friend-gathering skills. Although comprehensive, with plenty of information gleaned from other works about the subject, I felt the material was pretty much what anyone should already know. The reader is encouraged to grow-up by becoming more like Christ.

Each chapter sums up with Reflection Questions.

I did not enjoy this book. The concepts are so basic that I struggled to finish it. It doesn't provide very deep insight.

I was very excited to see the title of this book as an adult I think we all struggle with friendships from time to time. The concept of the book could have been great, however most of the time I felt like the author's were preaching about God. Every other sentence is about God and quotes from the bible. I am a spiritual person but I bought this book to learn about the value of a friendships not how I can incorporate God more into my life. Waste of money!