Download or read book The Joyful Couple A Guide to Making Joyful Love Relationship written by Hseham Amrahs and published by Mahesh Dutt Sharma. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of the book lies in its emphasis on joy as the cornerstone of a successful and meaningful relationship. It takes readers on a journey through various aspects of a couple's life, offering practical strategies and valuable insights to infuse joy into every facet of their connection. The book begins by addressing the foundations of a joyful relationship, exploring effective communication, understanding each other's needs, and building a strong emotional connection. It provides actionable advice on how to navigate conflicts and challenges while preserving the joy that initially brought the couple together. One of the strengths of the book is its exploration of shared experiences and activities that contribute to the overall happiness of a couple. From creating meaningful rituals and traditions to exploring new adventures together, the book offers a wealth of ideas to keep the joy alive and thriving.
Download or read book Composing a Life written by Mary Catherine Bateson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue of Bateson's treatise on the improvisational lives of five extraordinary women uses their personal stories to delve into the creative potential of the complex lives of today, where ambitions are constantly refocused on new goals and possibilities.
Download or read book The 4 Habits of Joy Filled Marriages written by Marcus Warner and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What separates happy marriages from miserable ones? Surprisingly, it’s not healthy communication. It’s not conflict resolution skills. It’s actually the size of the marriage’s joy gap . Joy Gap/joi gap/ (n.)-1. The length of time between moments of shared joy When the joy gap gets bigger, problems are more likely to overwhelm you, resentment creeps in, and you start to feel distant and alone in your marriage. When the joy gap is smaller, you regularly feel connected and happy, problems feel manageable, and your marriage becomes a reliable source of joy. But how do you ensure that you’re experiencing joy regularly? Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey have studied relationships (and neuroscience) and discovered four habits that keep joy regular and problems small. Some couples do them naturally, but anyone can learn. That’s why each chapter includes 15-minute exercises that boost joy and re-train your brain to make joy your default setting. You’ll learn new skills including how to: return to joy more quickly after disconnection create stronger bonds and elongate times of happiness boost your enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy Find out what your marriage looks like after a little work and a whole lot of joy.
Download or read book Joy in the Morning written by Betty Smith and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Betty Smith, author of the beloved American classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young love and marriage. In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law—and there they marry. But Carl and Annie’s first year together is much more difficult than they anticipated as they find themselves in a faraway place with little money and few friends. With hardship and poverty weighing heavily upon them, they come to realize that their greatest sources of strength, loyalty, and love, will help them make it through. A moving and unforgettable story, Joy in the Morning is “a glad affirmation that love can accomplish the impossible.” (Chicago Tribune)
Download or read book The Two Truths about Love written by Jason B Fischer and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some relationships last, others fall apart, and still others seem to thrive and grow as the years go on. The Two Truths About Love is a guide to creating this third type of relationship—an extraordinary partnership wherein each partner feels fully accepted and loved as they are. Designed over the course of thousands of hours conducting face-to-face counseling sessions with clients, psychotherapist and former Buddhist monk Jason B. Fischer’s unique approach has already improved the lives of countless individuals and couples. The two secrets to creating extraordinary relationships are simple: partners must 1. Give permission for the other person to be who they truly are while also 2. Taking responsibility for their own reactions, behaviors, assumptions, and expectations of their partner and the relationship. This book gives readers the tools to start giving permission and taking responsibility in their own relationships and offers strategies for letting go of dissatisfaction and habitual conflicts. In short, accessible chapters, readers learn how to put these seemingly simple rules into practice to regain balance and peace in their partnerships.
Download or read book Eight Dates written by John Gottman and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re newly together and eager to make it work or a longtime couple looking to strengthen and deepen your bond, Eight Dates offers a program of how, why, and when to have eight basic conversations with your partner that can result in a lifetime of love. “Happily ever after” is not by chance, it’s by choice– the choice each person in a relationship makes to remain open, remain curious, and, most of all, to keep talking to one another. From award-winning marriage researcher and bestselling author Dr. John Gottman and fellow researcher Julie Gottman, Eight Dates offers an ingenious and simple-to-implement approach to effective relationship communication. Here are the subjects that every serious couple should discuss: Trust. Family. Sex and intimacy. Dealing with conflict. Work and money. Dreams, and more. And here is how to talk about them—how to broach subjects that are difficult or embarrassing, how to be brave enough to say what you really feel. There are also suggestions for where and when to go on each date—book your favorite romantic restaurant for the Sex & Intimacy conversation (and maybe go to a yoga or dance class beforehand). There are questionnaires, innovative exercises, real-life case studies, and skills to master, including the Four Skills of Intimate Conversation and the Art of Listening. Because making love last is not about having a certain feeling—it’s about both of you being active and involved.
Download or read book 52 Uncommon Dates written by Randy Southern and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD! Fun, creative, and spiritually engaging—these are no ordinary dates! Have you ever tried a photography date? A water date? What about a second first date? 52 Uncommon Dates is more than a book. . . it’s an experience! Each date will set the scene for you and walk you through making it happen. Learn how to practically speak each other’s love language, incorporate prayer in ways that are natural and relevant to real life, and finish strong with questions that help keep conversation alive. You can even dig deeper to discover Bible passages that fit the theme of each date. Ignite prayerful and playful connections in ways that deepen the relational, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of your relationship, one date at a time.
Download or read book The Joy of Intimacy written by Manis Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all crave intimacy. It's essential to our emotional and spiritual health, and without it we don't feel whole. Yet today our culture faces an intimacy crisis. Many of us, even when we're in a committed relationship, still feel painfully alone.For more than four decades, world-renowned author, counselor, and teacher Manis Friedman has empowered couples to successfully navigate their own intimacy issues and replace loneliness and unfulfilled expectations with a deeply soulful and satisfying relationship. In this refreshingly frank, sensible, and at times humorous guide, Rabbi Friedman and Ricardo Adler share the deeper truths at the heart of our longing for intimacy along with practical wisdom from Jewish tradition-insights anyone can use to recapture passion, save their relationship, and tap into the essence of the true intimate experience.One by one, The Joy of Intimacy exposes the myths about love, sex, and intimacy that separate rather than bring us together and shows how to overcome the greatest obstacles to a healthy intimate relationship. You'll explore secrets to preserving your natural spontaneity, setting the mood for intimacy, and making your bedroom a sacred space. You'll also learn how to increase your sensitivity to the sacred experience of oneness that has the power to transform every aspect of your marriage and nourish all those around you.Whether you are married or single, in a relationship or seeking to create one that is both meaningful and lasting, The Joy of Intimacy will give you the skills and confidence you need to keep your relationship alive, fresh, and fulfilling.
Download or read book The African American Woman s Guide to Great Sex Happiness Martial Bliss written by Jel D. Lewis Jones and published by Amber Books Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author gives great relationship tips and advice in the more than 30 informative chapters, such as Enhance Your Sex Appeal, Communicating In Lovemaking, Thirteen Secrets To Sizzling Passion, and 72 Ways to Love Your Lover.
Download or read book Brilliant Relationships written by Annie Lionnet and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your inspirational guide to relationship success, providing all the essential tools to ensure you have happy and healthy relationships. From establishing positive personal beliefs and expectations right through to creating and sustaining healthy and happy relationships, you will discover how to attract the perfect partner and feel completely fulfilled in your relationships. BRILLIANT OUTCOMES: - Improve or transform existing relationships - Find out how to attract the perfect partner - Understand why we repeat negative patterns and change these for good.
Download or read book Getting the Love You Want A Guide for Couples Second Edition written by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REVISED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD ARE YOU GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT? Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The 20th anniversary edition contains extensive revisions to this groundbreaking book, with a new chapter, new exercises, and a foreword detailing Dr. Hendrix's updated philosophy for eliminating all negativity from couples' daily interactions, allowing readers of the 2008 edition to benefit from his ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work. Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., in partnership with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD., originated Imago Relationship Therapy, a unique healing process for couples, prospective couples, and parents. Together they have more than thirty years' experience as educators and therapists and their work has been translated into more than 50 languages, with Imago practiced by two thousand therapists worldwide. Harville and Helen have six children and live in New York and New Mexico.
Download or read book Together But Something Missing written by Ben Renshaw and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power struggles - Lack of communication - Unconscious needs - Fear of rejection - Different interests - Out of date habits - Fear of intimacy - High expectations - Too busy.If even one of these issues causes problems in your relationships, then this book is for you. As Britain's top personal development guru - and married himself - Ben Renshaw is able to throw strong light on what we can all do to improve our relationships, no matter what the problem. In his view there are ten principles of a successful partnership or marriage: Letting go of the past. Knowing what you want to say 'Yes' to. Realising that Now is New. Deciding how you want to be. Fearing less, talking more. Sexual healing. The inevitability of change. Living a life of gratitude. Making love more important than the relationship. Remembering the spirit zone. Full of thoughtful, realistic advice, this is the book no caring, sharing person can afford not to read.
Download or read book Peace in Everyday Relationships written by Sheila Alson and published by Hunter House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author outlines a practical and forward-looking guide to resolvingonflict that will help readers smooth relationships at home, in theorkplace, and within families. Original.
Download or read book The Couple s Guide to Love and Money written by Jonathan Rich and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2003-02-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have expectations about how to spend money, where it should come from, how much is needed for financial security, how important it is, and whether or not we can trust other people to be responsible about money. When these expectations come up against a partner's competing ideas, serious trouble can result. Money conflict is, after all, the most common factor cited as grounds for divorce. This practical and insightful guide helps you and your partner understand your individual money personalities. Its techniques will teach you to successfully negotiate and communicate about money, merge your money management styles, and implement the right money management techniques to achieve financial freedom together.
Download or read book Self Help Book The Dictionary Of Life written by I.B Opene and published by IKSTARR. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DICTIONARY OF LIFE - Harvesting the power of attention - a Self Help and Personal Development Book The major theme of this self help book: is on understanding how life really works, its peculiar language and habits and how to leverage that knowledge in fulfilling your deepest wishes and desires. You will also get an answer to important questions like "What is Love?" and much more! "The dictionary of life" deals with a number of existential misconceptions and imparts timely wisdom aimed primarily at encouraging the reader to be the best that they can be, to shrug off heavy weights of the heart and to gear up for a brighter tomorrow which is just there waiting, calling...today! It is a treatise on how to effectively say "NO" to issues in your life that seem to have taken over control against your will. For instance many people struggle desperately to kick substance abuse or debilitating habits like excessive pornography, without much success. The secrets expounded in this work are inspirational, motivational, and exceptional and have over time been found to be effective in the life of the author himself. I suffered for many years under circumstances that the Will found hard to overcome. This is a timely work that seeks to talk to people having a difficulty in saying "NO" in any arena of their lives and not just with chemical abuse but in emotional relationships, daily activities as well as health and the very important finances. This work is a spiritual and psychological elixir and rejuvenating tonic that offers inspiration that will help take you to the next level in your life.
Download or read book The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide written by Cody Daigle-Orians and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should I be upfront with someone I'm interested in that I'm ace or aro? How do I get people to respect my boundaries around intimacy? What if I don't want intimacy at all? It is selfish to pursue a relationship if I don't want romance? These questions are not only a source of deep anxiety and frustration for ace and aro people - but limit the heights that ace and aro folks believe they can reach for in their lives. These questions make us believe that we should settle for less, when in fact we all deserve more. Whether we're talking about friendships, romantic relationships, casual dates or casual intimate partners, this guide will help you not only live authentically in your ace and aro identity, but joyfully share it with others.
Download or read book Happily Ever After and 39 Other Myths about Love written by Linda Bloom, LCSW and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2016-03-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bust the Myths to Build a Great Relationship According to bestselling authors and relationship counselors Linda and Charlie Bloom, accepting common myths such as “couples with great relationships don’t fight” or “little things aren’t worth getting upset over” can prevent you from building the strong relationship you hope for. This book offers compelling stories and valuable suggestions for replacing myths with realistic expectations, equipping you with behavior and communication guidelines that will enhance and strengthen your intimate relationship. With the Blooms’ strong yet flexible approach to love, you’ll discover a new openness in which mutual understanding can thrive.
