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	The Four Seasons of Marriage by Gary Chapman
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 248.844 EAN 9781414300238 ISBN 1414300239 Manufacturer Tyndale House Publishers Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 240 Publication Date April 10, 2007 Publisher Tyndale House Publishers Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the perennial best seller The Five Love Languages, provides an easy-to-grasp framework to help couples understand their marriage and seven practical strategies for strengthening or improving their marriage relationship. A valuable resource for couples regardless of how long they've been married, this biblically based book is a reference tool to help couples through every season of marriage. Summary of features: Valuable insight for every couple, regardless of how long they have been married. Provides seven practical strategies to help couples understand and strengthen their marriage relationship. Includes a Marital Seasons Profile to help couples determine the season of their marriage. Chapman, author of the longstanding megaseller The Five Love Languages, uses his years of marriage counseling and leading marriage seminars as the basis for his thesis that marriages repeatedly go through periods that can be characterized by the seasons of the year. He begins by describing winter, times when marriages are marked by 'coldness, harshness, and bitterness.' Spring is 'where most marriages begin,' while summer is filled with fun. He compares an autumn marriage to 'the falling of the leaves.' Chapman offers detailed explanations of the emotions, attitudes and actions of the marriage seasons as well as the pros and cons of each. The book's second section provides seven strategies to enhance or change the marriage seasons, from dealing with past failures and speaking your spouse's love language to 'maximizing differences' and becoming a positive influence. Chapman also specifically addresses how to improve a marriage where a spouse has no desire to change. While it's valuable to have this information in one place, this book isn't different from what Chapman has written, said and taught many times before. Clear writing, tested strategies and good stories are here, but new revelations are not. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the perennial best seller The Five Love Languages, provides an easy-to-grasp framework to help couples understand their marriage and seven practical strategies for strengthening or improving their marriage relationship. A valuable resource for couples regardless of how long they've been married, this biblically based book is a reference tool to help couples through every season of marriage. Summary of features: Valuable insight for every couple, regardless of how long they have been married. Provides seven practical strategies to help couples understand and strengthen their marriage relationship. Includes a Marital Seasons Profile to help couples determine the season of their marriage. Spring, summer, fall, winter . . . marriages are perpetually in a state of transition, continually moving from one season to another—perhaps not annually, as in nature, but just as certainly and consistently. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter—discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times, we experience springtime with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On other occasions, we bask in the warmth of summer—comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature. The seasons of marriage come and go. Each one holds the potential for emotional health and happiness, and each one has its challenges. The purpose of this book is to describe these recurring seasons of marriage, help you and your spouse identify which season your marriage is in, and show you how to enhance your marriage in all four seasons. What Season of Marriage Are You In? Just as nature has its four seasons, every marriage also passes through four distinct seasons—not tied to the calendar but based on the climate and current condition of the relationship. Respected marriage expert Dr. Gary Chapman has given millions of couples the key to clear communication in his perennial best seller, The Five Love Languages. Now he breaks new ground with The Four Seasons of Marriage, a book guaranteed to change the way you and your spouse understand your marriage. In The Four Seasons of Marriage, Dr. Chapman explains the unique characteristics found in each season of marriage seven strategies for making the most of each season how to move a marriage out of one season and into another strategies for unification when you and your spouse have differing perceptions of your marriage and much more! Use the provided Marital Seasons Profile—a questionnaire built on Dr. Chapman’s experience conducting numerous marriage seminars every year—to identify the season of your marriage. Reassuring and relevant at every age and stage of marriage, The Four Seasons of Marriage is a perfect gift for a couple you love—including you and your spouse! Dr. Gary Chapman is the author of the best-selling 'The Five Love Languages' (more than 4 million copies sold) and The Four Seasons of Marriage. He is the director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc.; an internationally known speaker; and the host of A Love Language Minute, a syndicated radio program heard on more than 100 stations across North America. He and his wife, Karolyn, live in North Carolina. Customers who bought this item also bought The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate The Five Languages of Apology: How to Experience Healing in All Your Relationships The Five Love Languages of Children Dr. Gary Chapman on The Marriage You've Always Wanted The Five Love Languages of Teenagers Customer Reviews for: The Four Seasons of Marriage Rating - EXCELLENT reading for any married or wanna-be married people I highly recommend this book. It is such an easy read, and chock full of insights that every married couple or wanna-be married couple should read. Rating - Seasons of Love "My experience both in my own marriage and in counseling couples for more than thirty years, suggests that marriages are perpetually in a state of transition, continually moving from one season to another..." ~ Gary Chapman While "The Four Seasons of Marriage" can be read in a matter of hours, the lessons learned are quite valuable. You can instantly put the ideas into practice because they are practical and wise. Instead of taking a ... Read More Rating - Chapman Has it Together Chapman is known for his perennial best seller, The Five Love Languages. He now looks at what he calls the four seasons of marriage. We don't progress through these seasons in a steady progression, like the literal four seasons we experience over the course of a year. Instead, he takes characteristics of each season and applies them to where we might be, or where we've been in our journey together as a couple. Summer is obviously the ... Read More Rating - The Secret of Feeling Warm in the Winter Ever wonder why sometimes you have a love/hate relationship with the person you took the wedding vow with? You have done "everything" to make your partner happy but he/she still "thinks" that it wasn't good enough for them. Then, this is the book for you. If you're living in a place where there are seasonal changes, you would understand already how spring, summer, autumn and summer feels. Anticipation, depression, joy, and the many feelings ... Read More see more reviews See all books by author Gary Chapman

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