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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Zondervan Catalog: Book Release date: 1983-10-02 Media: Mass Market Paperback Number of pages: 64 Ean: 9780310425229 Book Isbn: 0310425220 Upc: 025986425227  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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| Help for troubled marriages, especially for the person whose spouse is seeking a divorce, is here at last. Dealing with emotions, planning, decision-making, and the need to love, this book also contains two chapters excerpted from Love Life for Every Married Couple. |
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 Written on March 10, 2008 Summary: Best Short Book to Help Get a Marriage Back on Track This is the best short book I've found to help get marriages back on track. It's inexpensive enough that I have my church buy them in case quantities and then give them to members to use or to give to people they know who are struggling in their marriage. If you find something similar that works for you, email me.  Written on August 22, 2007 Summary: Short and direct, catering to a specific audience. First off I'd like to briefly touch on a few basic ways to approach this book. One, that the author is taking a Biblical approach to saving a marriage. As is the case with much of the Bible's content it is open to interpretation. I doubt all readers who believe in what the Bible has to offer will agree on every conclusion Dr. Wheat has reached. Still the reader should be prepared for the Biblical content in this book and the fact that Dr. Wheat bases his approach to saving a marriage on his understanding of God's word. I find it odd that so many reviewers complain about this? In my opinion that is like complaining that a cookbook published by P.E.T.A. has no meat dishes??? Even if a reader doesn't share Dr. Wheat's beliefs and totally does not accept what the Bible has to offer I hope the reader can at least recognize that this book is based just those things and accept it as the author's prerogative. Second, this book will most likely be read by those going through a divorce or those connected to someone who is in the process of a divorce. This is a self help book and I doubt many who are not experiencing the pains of a divorce will seek it out. So, in my opinion, many who read this book will be seeking a certain outcome and are emotionally connected to the results. Unfortunately the process to obtaining a result and the result itself may not emotionally or practically agree with the reader. I would encourage all readers to try and set their opinions and emotions aside while reading it. Then compare what Dr. Wheat has to say with his/her own notions once completed and see what parts can be adapted into his/her life. I guess I'm trying to say that readers should be wary of knee jerk reactions. Like most who read this book I found myself in a broken marriage and wanted to heal it. I liked the fact that this book was short and direct. I read it multiple times. Originally I thought there might be some guarantee from God that my marriage was salvageable. Although that was, as I look at it now, a real pipe dream. In fact I fall into one of the two categories listed by Dr. Wheat as unsalvageable. In my case my wife had taken a lover and totally given herself over to him. For about three months I prayed, read scripture, read this book, and conducted other research trying to find someway to save my marriage. Over this three month period, in accordance with Dr. Wheat's writings, I began to examine my own part in my marital break up. While I still don't believe I am the cause of my pending divorce I do accept my part in many of our marital problems. For me that is the real benefit about the book, it encourages the reader to quit trying to figure their partner out and instead to focus on what they did to contribute to the marital problems and how to ask forgiveness from God and their spouse if given the opportunity. What I write next may not make sense to those who don't have a relationship with God but it will hopefully make sense to some. When I began reading this book I had hoped to restore my relationship with my wife. This book along with the Bible itself helped me realize that on my wedding day I made a commitment to not only my wife but to God. While my marriage has not been reconciled I do think my relationship with God has been. Marriages break up for many reasons but all the many reasons have a root problem and that is a failure by one or both spouses to remember his/her commitment to God and to seek him first. Dr. Wheat attempts to make this clear but I think the point gets lost in some of his examples. The problem that gets the most attention is that of a spouse becoming an apparent door mat for the cheating spouse. I'll admit that his examples are hard to get past. However, I think the point he's trying to make is that a spouse, no matter if still living in the same home or separated from his/her spouse, can learn to set aside his/her hurt, pain, needs, and wants by focusing on the Lord. Easier said than done, however if a person is able to he/she will find themselves in a better place, one with his/her goals and expectations redefined. For some a complete reconciliation with a spouse, and for others a peace about moving on. Dr. Wheat clearly thinks too many people abandon their marriages without putting in real effort towards reconciliation. Also, this book does not boast a lot of statistics and figures. It appears to be all anecdotal with no actual detailed studies or comparisons. I was some what put off by this and skeptical. Over time I came to the conclusion that the author was not trying to give us hope by providing a success ratio or percentage guidelines. He is trying to tell the reader that direction, hope and peace can come from God. You can't attach statistics to those types of results. This review may seem to be a little too much about me and not enough about the book. I agree but after all it is a self help book. How are we to truly critique a self help book other than to tell how it did or did not help us? Like I mentioned earlier, this is a book aimed not only at saving marriages but at improving relationships with God. Please be aware of that before reading.  Written on July 14, 2007 Summary: Bad Idea Buy Dr James Dobson's book, Love must be Tough and don't waste your money on this booklet. They shouldn't have paired them together, as their messages are completely opposite. I applied the advice from Love Must Be Tough and had success, doing what this book advised only brought me more heartache. Written on June 4, 2007 Summary: Good little book. I got some good tips out of this book. It is bible based, which I like. It is also pretty short, so I can read it many times over, quickly. It references scriptures in the bible, which is helping me to learn more about His word. Written on May 26, 2007 Summary: Don't waste your money! This book is not worth purchasing! I am in the middle of a divorce and I purchased this book and "Divorce Remedy" by Michele Weiner Davis. Her book is much more readable and applicable today. Dr. Wheat's recommendation to get back a walk-a-way wife is totally opposite Michele Weiner Davis'. His recommendation is sure to ruin your marriage. It's a good thing I read Michele's book first and implemented her ideas as I would already be divorced if I used Dr. Wheat's. Don't, Don't use his methods, they won't work. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 1983-10-02 | 2000-07-01 | 2005-01-01 | 2007-04-16 | 1998-01-05 | 1999-07-22 |
| Media | Mass Market Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 64 | 220 | 176 | 240 | 300 | 196 |
| Ean | 9780310425229 | 9780310236474 | 9780802436399 | 9781414317458 | 9780767900423 | 9780849937149 |
| Book Isbn | 0310425220 | 0310236479 | 0802436390 | 141431745X | 0767900421 | 0849937140 |
| Upc | 025986425227 | - | - | - | - | - |
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