Author: Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW Publisher: Sounds True ISBN: 1683644085 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 0
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The 10 Keys to a Successful Remarriage Winner of the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Award in Gold for Self Help Winner of American Book Fest’s 2020 Best Book Award in “Self-Help: Relationships” Based on the author’s personal experience, over 30 years of clinical practice, knowledge from leading marriage and remarriage researchers, and 100 in-depth interviews of remarried people, The Remarriage Manual offers 10 essential keys to a successful remarriage: Build a Culture of Appreciation, Respect, and Tolerance. Negativity is toxic. Personal growth and love are possible when you can express appreciation through positive words and actions. Make Your Remarriage a Top Priority. Never underestimate the power of intentional time with your partner to increase physical and emotional intimacy. Ditch the Baggage from Your First Marriage. Learn ways to be more reflective and less reactive to triggers that hit raw spots or vulnerabilities stemming from prior relationships. Don’t Keep Secrets about Money. Remarried couples face complicated financial issues such as unequal assets, child support, alimony, and education costs for children and stepchildren. Honesty and full disclosure about finances are essential. Don’t Let Mistrust Stop You from Being Vulnerable and Emotionally Intimate. Learn that vulnerability and trust go hand in hand and the steps you can take to be authentic and intimate with your partner so you can achieve long-lasting love. Get Sexy and Fall in Love All Over Again. Given the stressors of a second marriage, it can be particularly challenging to stay sexually intimate. Yet moments of connection, such as touching, talking, or making love, are all part of the glue that holds a second marriage together. Don’t Make a Big Deal about Nothing . . . but Do Deal with Important Issues. Differences in beliefs, expectations, and conversational styles can cause you to blow things out of proportion and tune each other out. Effective communication will help you overcome these types of misunderstandings. Manage the Flames of Conflict. You can’t avoid disagreements entirely. What you can do, however, is learn how to manage them successfully to avoid the “blame game” so that they can nourish rather than drain your remarriage. Embrace Your Role as a Stepparent and Create Positive Stepfamily Memories. There is no such thing as instant love in a stepfamily. When biological parents are involved, the relationships can get even trickier. Learn to adjust to your role as a stepparent—the chances of a second marriage succeeding go way up when both partners adopt an attitude of “we’re in this together.” Say You’re Sorry and Mean It. Studies show that apologizing to your partner for hurting their feelings and granting forgiveness are crucial to the success of a second marriage. It’s essential that remarried couples learn the value of sincere apologies and forgiveness. Drawing on the experiences of dozens of couples and remarriage scenarios, Terry Gaspard shows you how to bring each key home and set up your relationship for lasting success. Whether you are thinking of remarrying and concerned about going the distance or are already remarried and struggling, The Remarriage Manual provides the expert advice, practical tools, hope, and inspiration you need to prevent challenges from becoming deal breakers. The 10 keys provided here will help put you and your spouse on solid footing; keep the flame between you burning bright; and build a deeply trusting, loving, and sustainable connection for the long haul.
Author: Krysta Kavenaugh Publisher: International Marriage Encounter ISBN: 9780936098708 Category : Communication in marriage Languages : en Pages : 64
Author: Harriet Lerner Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101554215 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 257
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Following a unique format perfect for today's world, the renowned author of The Dance of Anger gives us just over 100 rules that cover all the hot spots in long-term relationships. Marriage Rules offers new solutions to age-old problems ("He won't talk"/"She doesn't want sex") as well as modern ones (your partner's relationship to technology.) You'll also learn how to: Calm things down and warm them up Talk straight and fight fair Listen well as a spiritual practice Connect with a distant partner Survive the unique challenges of children, stepchildren and difficult- laws Follow a 12-step program to overcome defensiveness Know how and when to draw the line Take back your marriage when things fall apart Marriage Rules is a treasure chest of lively, practical advice to help you navigate your couple relationship with clarity, courage, and joyous conviction. If one person in a couple follows ten rules of his or her choice, it will generate a major, positive change. All that's required is a genuine wish for a better relationship and a willingness to practice.
Author: Terry Gaspard MSW, LICSW Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1492620661 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 298
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Restore your faith in love and build healthy, successful relationships with this essential guide for every woman haunted by her parents' divorce. Silver Medal Independent Publisher's Award Winner of the Best Book Award in "Self-Help: Relationships" Over 40 percent of Americans ages eighteen to forty are children of divorce. Yet women with divorced parents are more than twice as likely than men to get divorced themselves and struggle in romantic relationships. In this powerful, uplifting guide, mother-daughter team Terry and Tracy draws on thirty years of clinical practice and interviews with over 320 daughters of divorce to help you recognize and overcome the unique emotional issues that parental separation creates so you can build the happy, long-lasting relationships you deserve. Learn how to: Examine your parents' breakup from an adult perspective Heal the wounds of the past Recognize destructive dynamics in intimate relationships and take steps to change them Trust yourself and others by embracing vulnerability Create strong partnerships with their proven Seven Steps to a Successful Relationship Break the divorce legacy once and for all!
Author: Ainsley H. Duff Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1499084323 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 137
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Rationale for the book. Marriage is under serious attack from the forces of evil. There is much deception in the world and, sad to say, this deception is coming even from the pulpit. The idea that God does not want you to suffer and will understand your decision to divorce your spouse is not scriptural and can have eternal consequences for those who do this. If you do not forgive that spouse you are about to divorce, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive your decision to divorce. Even if you have already been divorced and remarried, forgiving those who hurt you is a prerequisite for receiving forgiveness from God, for your sins. God has given clear instructions, in His Word, about marriage and what he expects from such a union. But, what has happened is that we have taken Gods Grace and Mercy as excuses to create a God who sits in Heaven just handing out forgiveness and blessings to us as we continually live in disobedience to His word, while at the same time expecting Him to pour out financial and other rewards to us. God used the prophet, Hosea, to demonstrate to us that He hurts as we go a whoring from Him after our gods, whether in the form of wealth, sex or any of the many other gods we place before Him. Dont forget that another name for Jehovah is Jealous and He is a jealous God. This book seeks to look at marriage from the aspect of Gods directions to us as stated in the Bible. It also takes a look at some of the marriages of biblical figures such as Adam and Eve, Joseph and Mary, King David and his wives, King Ahab and Jezebel among others. Men and women are different in all their aspects and this must be taken into consideration as they make that decision to walk lifes path together as husband and wife, as God in His wisdom has laid out clear instructions to us with regards to our roles in this union. He is clear on children and how they should be brought up as well as how they should relate to their parents in the family. The roles of the father and of the mother are clearly outlined as well as when the dissolution of union through divorce is allowed by God. It is hoped that marriages will benefit as a result of the contents found between the covers of THE MARRIAGE MANUAL.
Author: Maggie Scarf Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439169543 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 256
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It is estimated that forty percent of new marriages are remarriages, but the survival rate of second marriages is alarmingly low. Many remarrying couples set out with a sense of optimism, a belief that this marriage will usher in a life of happiness and family unity. But complicated family dynamics can often strain new partnerships to the breaking point. The challenges of remarriage are pervasive, but little guidance has existed until now. Based on more than a decade of candid, revelatory interviews, this book provides a crucial framework for the obstacles to re-marriage and the secrets to overcoming them. The author plumbs the everyday workings of shared life to illuminate the emotional preconceptions, social pressures, and perpetuated fantasies that confound re-marriage. Through cautionary tales and stories of hope, the author offers guidance for handling everything from children who reject the new family dynamic to the thorny issue of money. Loaded with practical wisdom and searing accounts, this is a definitive roadmap to a happy, thriving, integrated household.
Author: Patricia Schiff Estess Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595169090 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 246
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Written for anyone contemplating -- or already in -- a remarriage, this book is a complete and indispensable guide to the financial systems, options, and solutions that work. Here, told in a lively, anecdotal, and empathetic manner, is everything you need to know about handling your money in a remarriage, as well as resolving the complicated emotions connected with the subject. Anyone who has said "I do" more than once knows that the financial considerations of a remarriage are remarkably different from those of a first marriage. Remarrieds walk down the aisle with a heavy train of financial responsibilities -- especially if they have dependent children from another marriage. They may bring unequal assets to the union. They often face financial strain when they decide to have a child. They are financially tied to former spouses -- even husbands of former spouses. Figuring out how to deal with these complexities at the same time one is dealing with the other aspects of remarriage can seem overwhelming. By providing financial-planning advice and ideas, illustrated with solutions other remarried couples have come up with, Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage helps you deal sensibly, practically, and constructively with the countless financial aggravations and pressures that occur in remarriage. Topics addressed include: allocating assets fairly; whether or not to have a prenuptial agreement; deciding where to live and how to pay for it; sending the children/stepchildren to college -- whose responsibility is it, anyway?; establishing a viable checking system; sharing everyday financial chores; drawing up an estate plan that's fair to all family members; saving intelligently for retirement. Money Advice for Your Successful Remarriage addresses less concrete but equally "hot" interpersonal issues: communicating effectively about financial matters; resolving disputes arising from different money styles and approaches to money ; making the leap from sexual fidelity to financial fidelity. For the new American family -- the remarried family -- this book elevates the art of creative problem solving to a new level. By putting money in its place, it helps you concentrate on the reason you got remarried: because you love each other.
Author: Jay E. Adams Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0310510813 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 146
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This book will help counselors understand and deal with the typical problems that arise in a marriage. The approach is to offer not merely solutions, but biblical solutions. Chapter by chapter, each problem that is brought into focus is addressed by Scripture, and a solution arising from Scripture is developed. Unless one understands what a biblical marriage is supposed to be, it is difficult to solve marriage problems. For that reason, Dr. Adams spends the first few chapters developing a biblical model. Then he treats many of the specific kinds of problems that typically arise : life patterns, priorities, children, sex roles, in-laws, and so forth. - Back cover.
Author: Edward M. Tauber Publisher: ISBN: 9780736919364 Category : Divorce Languages : en Pages : 0
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Divorce recovery experts Tauber and Smoke draw on their 30 years of experience as divorce counselors and a survey of more than 600 individuals to explore why people end up divorced again and what they can do to successfully remarry.
Author: Terry Gaspard, MSW, LICSW
Author: Krysta Kavenaugh
Author: Harriet Lerner
Author: Jay E. Adams
Author: Terry Gaspard MSW, LICSW
Author: Ainsley H. Duff
Author: Maggie Scarf
Author: Patricia Schiff Estess
Author: Jay E. Adams
Author: Edward M. Tauber