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Rescue Your Love Life, Workbook

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We recently got this book (and workbook)for my brother-in-law and his wife. Their marriage was on the brink of divorce and they asked us to counsel them. I looked around until I found this book and I liked how it got right to the point of the matter and dealt with the issues head-on. In going through it with them, it also helped to strengthen my own marriage in the process. I would definatly recommend this to anyone having struggles in their marriage and are willing to do the work to fix it.

Regardless of how you view your marriage, all relationships will have their share of ups and downs. This is only natural when dealing with two unique individuals (and personalities) that need to work together as equal partners. This book definitely helps supplement the learning experience of how to best communicate with each other (learning best approach), be fair in compromising, set reasonable boundaries, respect the unique natures of you and your partner, work on solving things together, sharing feelings (without blaming) and complement one another as a "whole" (and not as two halves). It also addresses how to work on personal issues (or habits) that could reflect and harm your marriage.

The approach is Christian, basing it's guidance through a Biblical understanding, yet isn't "preachy" and doesn't beat around the bush. The style is rather casual and laid back, but it's also straight forward and to the point...very well balanced. Neither gender is singled out or favored...both are approached uniquely but also equally as responsable partners. This is best shown and acknowledged through the "his" and "hers" CD's, especially if you listen to both.

I'd highly recommend (if you are planning to use this program), to read the book AND listen to the CD's. The workbook is also good if you need more practice or activity in the program. I purchased both the book (with CD's) and the workbook. Both my husband and I enjoyed the program, but we didn't feel the need for the workbook. This would be great for any couples planning on getting married or are already married.

An outstanding book and work book, hitting all the key areas where marrages struggle. I use it for Pre-marrage and marrage counseling.
Rev. Jerry Jaquish
Manistee Michigan

Wow - this book really helped to open my eyes about wrong expectations I had of my husband, and also in other relationships. I really appreciate the fact that both authors are Christians and have a true understanding of the drama that happens in marriages and has allowed the Holy Spirit to give them insight and then publish it. It has help to turn my marriage (other relationships too) around for the better. Like they write - the change starts with me. If I change, then the relationship changes too!

Great book for those who want to improve their relationships rather than maintain them . Great for personal growth and makes a good small group study book .

excellent. I am a marriage and family therapist and recommend this book to anyone desiring to work on their marriage.'

Shawn

The author writes with great style and easy to read. A great step towards rebuilding your marriage and building each other up as God's workmanship.

Great authors and topics. Once again these authors have the mark on their teaching. We like their style and content.

Don't waste your money on this book. The only thing good about it is the table of contents and you can read that by downloading a sample on the Kindle. This book is your typical, dime-a-dozen, been-there-read-that, Christian marriage book. It is the standard, boring, churchy language, "Dr. Phil wanna-be" mixed with some psycho-babble and a few out of context scriptures added for supposed authenticity.

The text is also written in such a way that the husband in the relationship is always at fault, never the wife. The guy is the idiot, the guy is the failure, the guy is insensitive, the guy needs to get his act together and the woman is the poor little victim trying to straighten out this horrible marriage. That's all these Christian marriage books are. They don't know how to deal with real love and in-depth issues they only know how to blame the guy. And they talk as if all you have to do is step 1-2-3 and presto, you have a happy marriage.

Plus you have to sit through boring chapter after boring chapter reading about how Robert and Jill or Fred and Peggy or Nick and Janice faced such and such a problem in their marriage and here is the bland, boring, yawn, common sense advice that the author gave them. And now they are Cinderella and Prince Charming living in the happy castle. I wish I could get my money back.

If you really want to study love, for less than a dollar you can download a book called THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD by Henry Drummand. He was a contemporary of Charles Spurgeon and he does a master job with 1 Corinthians 13. Read it and you will be moved. But these Christian marriage books are just a church scam to put money in the pockets of second rate counselors who don't want to work a real job, but want to sit as the guru giving everyone advice. I bought the book based on the table of contents. Obviously the author didn't know where to go after that.