Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome: How to Grow Affair Proof Hedges Around Your Marriage (Paperback)

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"Anderson's book offers strategies for communicating, dating, and building hedges to protect your relationship as critical elements to preserving a marriage. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome is an excellent guide for preventing adultery and preserving marriage." (Claudette Robertson Book Review 20050101)

"Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome is an absolute gem of a book. Nancy's honesty is refreshing and makes the reader trust Nancy's advise that comes after she shares her own story of infidelity. Her words are filled with the sort of wisdom that one learns only through making a tragic mistake, but the book is also filled with words of hope for every couple out there. Laced with humor, practical tips, and spiritual insight, Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome is a must read and re-read for every pastor, counselor, and couple who are ready to understand fully what God can and will do to not only save a marriage, but grow it into a thing of beauty." (Carmen Leal Amazon.com 20050201)

"Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome is by turns honest, humorous, moving, insightful, and practical. Nancy Anderson does a masterful job at both telling her story without going into sordid details and remaining vulnerable enough to inspire and encourage struggling couples. I highly recommend this book!" (Dena Dyer Amazon.com 20050301)

"Nancy Anderson's book 'Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome: How to Grow Affair-proof Hedges Around Your Marriage' is absolutely wonderful. With courage, Anderson tells of the journey that sent her on a wayward path to infidelity that nearly ended her marriage. More than a book on infidelity, Anderson describes how to plant, water, trim, and keep the rodents out by planting hedges around one's marriage. She explains the importance of communication and offers tips on that subject. Spending time with your spouse is crucial, so Anderson includes ideas for dating. She educates on differences in personalities, interests, and needs, and then ends with ways to keep each other satisfied. I want to tell couples that if they water their own marriages, they can grow a beautiful, healthy, green relationship in their own backyard." (Cindy O'Holloran Christian Activities )

"Nancy C. Anderson writes about a confusing time in her life with such vulnerability, she draws the reader in. She shows how being out of the will of God brought her nothing but heartache, and then takes us through her journey from chaos to the cure. Her practical tips and spiritual insights inspire her readers to work on their own relationships. Recommended reading whether struggling in your marriage or you want to make a good thing better." (Donna J. Shepherd Amazon.com 20050501)

"Nancy has an incredible story to tell and she tell it with her heart on her sleeve. Many times throughout this book she is so transparent and candid about her journey from infidelity to incredibly blessed matrimony, her heart is practically hovering over the pavement. This book has inspired, educated, enlightened, amused, moved, and blessed me tremendously, and my marriage will be more of a horticultural masterpiece because of it." (Jason A. Ogle Amazon.com )

"Perhaps the most helpful thing about this practical book is the list of things to think about at the close of each chapter along with a list of things to do. All marriages need constant evaluation and action to infuse energy and avoid boredom. These lists are easily the greatest benefits of the book. Forged these in the crucible of the author's personal experience, these lists provide practical help for fellow strugglers." (Jim Brown Biblical Ministries Worldwide )

"This book is wisdom born of tragic, but genuine, experience. Because Anderson nearly ruined her marriage due to infidelity, she truly knows the misery a fling can cause. Her honesty, vulnerability, and repentance provide marital lessons guaranteed to strengthen couples who are susceptible to the lure of an affair. Anderson now married more than 25 years, uses situations from her parents' marriage, her own marriage, and the marriages of couples she and her husband counsel in their ministry as examples of good and bad habits of marital life. She focuses on post marital dating, listening, encouraging, confessing, and satisfying. At the end of each chapter are questions and projects that will help couples grow closer. This book has many anecdotes, Bible verses, and interviews that make it contemporary, realistic, and reader friendly." (DEH Church Libraries 20050401)

This is nothing like most 'how to' books on the subject. This is a hands-on, I've been there, done that approach and it doesn't work book from a couple who faced infidelity and the desire for divorce. Only they chose the more difficult path. They chose the path of commitment, forgiveness and the hard work of rebuilding what they'd lost. (Carolyn R. Scheidies Author's Choice Book Review 20050101)

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From a woman who strayed to the other side of the marital fence -and returned to find forgiveness and restoration - comes this practical book about predicting and preventing an extra-martial affair. Based on the principle that the grass is aways greener when its watered, this book focuses on howto grow a beautiful marriage in your own backyard by establishing six protective "hedges" around it.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!, October 18, 2004 By  Tonya Ruiz (California) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    Even if infidelity hasn't been a problem in your marriage you will benefit greatly from this book. Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome is a MUST READ! Nancy C. Anderson is willing to tell about her lousy marriage, work-place affair, and how an incredible God, a forgiving husband, and a lot of hard work put their Humpty Dumpty marriage back together again. Not only does this book tell her story in a way that will give you goosebumps, but it gives simple steps and ideas, that if put into practice will make the grass of your marriage the greenest in the neighborhood. (I especially like the humorous way Nancy addresses the "romance" factor -- you'll have to read chapter ten!!) I'm going to buy a box of Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome and give them as wedding presents. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome, May 3, 2005 By  Dr. Gail M. Hayes - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    My high school sweetheart had just contacted. I felt unloved and unappreciated in my marriage. Then, BAM!!! Nancy Anderson sent me a review copy of Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome. I wept as I read her honest account of infidelity. Her transparency helped me to see how vulnerable I was and that I had better get out my gardening tools and tend my lawn. I'm happy to say that my grass is growing greener and greener each day because of reading this book. This is a MUST READ for all who may have even thought of tending another lawn. This books makes you want to run to the Lawn and Garden supply so you can see your yard become a garden of safety. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars No watering down the truth with this one, May 19, 2005 By  Jan Coleman (Auburn, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    It took guts to write this book, to tell the whole truth about why she strayed from her marriage, and to accept the responsibility for her own unhappiness. As a victim of an unwanted divorce, now remarried, I can say that Nancy is right on target with her advice on how to grow that affair-proof hedge around your marriage. Of course, it takes two, but God can do much with one heart willing to look inside and confront what needs to be changed. Thanks for this needed book! Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 24 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars Greener grass? Excellent! The information in this book can turn a relationship around if taken to heart, understood and applied. Marriage is work and a committment. Read more Published 3 days ago by Dennis W. Odom 5.0 out of 5 stars How to save a marriage and avoid stepping out This book is a book I believe all married couples should read. It teaches you how to get through different problems in your marriage and also how to keep God in the center of that... Read more Published 5 months ago by Troubled Wife "Sin" 5.0 out of 5 stars Very comforting book during my time of heartache This book gives me hope that my marriage can survive my husbands affair. It's a very easy read but yet so insightful. Read more Published 12 months ago by Jerect 5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic resource for married couples... Here is what the acronym HEDGES stands for... Hearing Encouraging Dating Guarding Educating Satisfying The author uses... Read more Published 20 months ago by Michelle Sutton 5.0 out of 5 stars Hope after heartache Honest and insightful, this book not only reveals how easy it was for the author to be deceived, but also shares practical steps we can take to affair-proof our own marriages. Read more Published on May 10, 2007 by Vonda Skelton 5.0 out of 5 stars Great This book is excellent reading for any couple who has had to deal with an affair. It is told by someone who has had to live the experience. I would recommend highly. Read more Published on February 16, 2007 by Jill C. Morang 5.0 out of 5 stars How to Grow Affair Proof Hedges Around Your Marriage very easy to read, and understand. Published on November 9, 2006 by Lim Eng Hiong 5.0 out of 5 stars Good weapon While all of the mad men chase the homosexual partnership laws, and the right to pray on your lunch break, those in the faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ have forgotten satan... Read more Published on November 8, 2006 by Quincy S. Stallworth 5.0 out of 5 stars The only thing green is the emotion of envy and jealousy evoked by fantasy This is written from a Christian perspective and the author's first hand account of her own syndrome of "the grass looks greener". Read more Published on September 28, 2006 by M. R. Estante 5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Wisdom for Every Married Couple Every married couple will benefit from the practical wisdom found in Avoiding the Greener Grass Syndrome. Read more Published on May 7, 2006 by Cindy L. Heflin Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 24 customer reviews...

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