Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Workbook for Women [Paperback]

Les and Leslie Parrott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 21, 1995

This workbook is designed to help you -- the woman -- explore the issues and practice the skills presented in the book Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts. It is full of lively exercises and enlightening self-tests that will help you and your partner apply what you are learning directly to your relationship. - This version of the workbook approaches the issues from a woman's perspective, taking into account your unique psychology, needs, and approach to life. - Each exercise includes an estimate of how long it will take, so you can easily fit the program into a busy schedule. - Call-outs in the book let you know the best times to do the exercises as you read. - Activities to practice throughout your married life are included to help you keep your love alive. These exercises are designed to help you uncover potential problems and deal with them before they emerge. They will help you and your partner communicate better. They will help you see your differences and practice positive methods for resolving conflict. Best of all, they are designed to help you cultivate intimacy and help you on your way to a rich, lifelong love.

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This workbook is designed to help you -- the woman -- explore the issues and practice the skills presented in the book Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts. It is full of lively exercises and enlightening self-tests that will help you and your partner apply what you are learning directly to your relationship. - This version of the workbook approaches the issues from a woman's perspective, taking into account your unique psychology, needs, and approach to life. - Each exercise includes an estimate of how long it will take, so you can easily fit the program into a busy schedule. - Call-outs in the book let you know the best times to do the exercises as you read. - Activities to practice throughout your married life are included to help you keep your love alive. These exercises are designed to help you uncover potential problems and deal with them before they emerge. They will help you and your partner communicate better. They will help you see your differences and practice positive methods for resolving conflict. Best of all, they are designed to help you cultivate intimacy and help you on your way to a rich, lifelong love.

About the Author

Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott are founders of RealRelationships.com and the Center for Relationship Development at Seattle Pacific University. Their bestselling books include Love Talk, Your Time Starved Marriage, and the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts. Their work has been featured in the New York Times and USA Today, and they have appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, and Oprah. Les y Leslie forman un equipo como marido y mujer, y son expertos avanzados en los asuntos concernientes a las relaciones personales. Muestran sus experiencias como padres con el objetivo de ayudarte a cumplir la vocacion mas grande de u vida.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; Workbook edition (May 21, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310487412
• ISBN-13: 978-0310487418
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #818,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent counseling tool for dating or engaged couples!, March 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Men (Paperback)

This workbook, along with the main book, are excellent counseling tools for couples engaged or considering marriage. It is also excellent for couples that are already married. It is professionally done, and includes many exercises that help couples communicate their expectations about marriage and eliminate some problems before they begin. It is well worth the money.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worthless, but don't bother buying the workbooks., March 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Workbook for Women (Paperback)

This book was recommended to us by several friends and my mother, so we bought and read it. I would have been happier had I borrowed it from the library and not spent the money. It has some good common-sense suggestions to keep a relationship working, but nothing earth-shattering. The only things I found really helpful were the triangular model of relationships and the chapter on ebb and flow. Other than that, if you've taken Psychology 101 this book has nothing new for you. Also, I was very disappointed in the workbooks. The book makes you feel like you are missing out if you don't stop every few paragraphs to do an exercise in the workbook, but the workbook is exceptionally lame and consists mostly of empty lines and questions that are obvious to the reader anyway-- definitely not worth $14 extra. If you want a really fantastic marriage book, try "I Pledge You My Troth" by James Olthuis, if you can find it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy read w/ valid points//Excerts are from Workbook, January 18, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts Workbook for Men (Paperback)

First off, the excerpts (table of contents, page and backcover) above are from the workbook, not the book.

The book was a very easy and quick read. I have suggested it to a number of friends as I feel it brings up some valid points and can be used as a spring board to further discussion. Too many people marry without talking about what they are getting into and expecting. The book talks about the myths of marriage, the ebb and flow of relationships, expectations, and ends with a discussion on faith and religion in marriage. That is in the last chapter and can be skipped if you are not religeous and/or shy away from "Christian" stuff. The rest of the book only touches on faith as it relates to the authors description of an event.

The book was written in '95 and mentions much of the relationship self help stuff from that era. The authors are married, and they give examples from thier own marriage, as well as from other couples they have counseled. There are out-quotes, places to pause for discussion, and a few diagrams.

As someone else mentioned, the book does make you feel as if you have to get the workbooks to get a complete picture. You don't. I thought they were overpriced for what they are, although they too can help in discussion, especially if you aren't doing any other than what color flowers to get and what kind of limo you want. The excercises range from really simple ratings (on a scale of 1 to 5, how improtant is the following to you, do alone and compare and discuss) to more time consuming stuff (what unwritten rules do you have?). I found out in one excercie that my honey expects me to do 80% of the childrearing, while I expected we'd be closer to 60/40.

Part of it is intuitive stuff, part of it is stuff that you might think, "I hadn't thought of it that way". If you're reading about this book, congrats and Good luck!