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Starved for Affection

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I found this book to be quite interesting, it gave me a lot to think about. I read it on a weekend getaway with my husband. We talked about the three areas in our life that need regular attention - emotional, physical, and spiritual closeness and the ways we can make our relationship a higher priority in our lives. I would recommend anyone who has the marriage "blahs" to read this and make some changes.

I have always felt that I had a "good" marriage. Sure we had up and down times, but overall I felt things were going pretty well. However, the last year has been difficult for us and I was feeling less respect and love for my wife, and that scared me. I wanted to (and she reluctantly agreed to) go to counseling. That revealed many areas in our relationship that were "broken" and I was pretty shocked to hear how my wife felt about things. She basically didn't love me anymore and didn't want to prolong the inevitable. I was panicked. I started to read as many marriage books as I could get my hands on. I saw an individual counselor to help with some issues and dealing with the rejection I felt. I changed behaviors. I tried many different things.

While I cannot say this is the best Marriage book I have read (to me, the best one is "The Marriage Turnaround"), it is one that I felt was very helpful for me to understand how things in our marriage went along the path that they did. That understanding was really helpful for me to understand why I did some of the things I did, and why my wife was doing some of the things she was doing. I feel that having this understanding could help many couples and I have given this book to a couple of friends who seem to have similar things happening in their marriages.

I would recommend this book for anyone who is in a relationship that used to be good, but that seems to just slowly get worse over the years. It will help you to realize why that is happening and give you some advice about how to change things. It has definitely helped me to understand why we were both doing some of the things that we were doing and has also helped me to change some of the behaviors that were not helping my marriage.

This book was packed with tons of practical and applicable information.
An easy read. Randy Carlson is a gifted counselor and passionate about people.
I would highly recommend this book.

This book is great and the author Randy Carlson has a radio program called intentional living that is very inspirational with lots of good advice for parenting, family, and any kind of relationship.

Great self help book, I bought this on Amazon under "Books you may also like" It describes me to a T

We read this book in our couples Sunday school class. It was enlightening for all of us. We laughed together and shared together. Each of us felt like the book was written just for us. A great read.