Love Busters: Protect Your Marriage by Replacing Love-Busting Patterns with Love-Building Habits

by Willard F. Harley Jr.

Publisher:

Revell

, 2016

Overview

A Classic Resource from Dr. Harley--Now Revised and Repackaged to Highlight Six Changes in Habits That Will Save Your Marriage

According to relationship expert and bestselling author Dr. Willard F. Harley, Jr., after couples get married, they often develop habits that slowly undermine the love they have for each other. If tolerated, these Love Busters--selfish demands, disrespectful judgments, angry outbursts, dishonesty, annoying habits, and independent behavior--will destroy a couple’s love for each other. The solution, however, isn’t merely to avoid these negative behaviors and attitudes. Rather, it’s to cultivate Love Builders--positive habits that will strengthen the relationship.

With Dr. Harley’s expert guidance, couples will be able to avoid the major causes of marital unhappiness and disappointment. Instead of tearing their marriage apart, they will learn to build it into the marriage they had needed and wanted. This book is a perfect companion to His Needs, Her Needs and will be useful to pastors, counselors, and couples.

From the Back Cover

Turn love-busting patterns into love-building habits

After couples are married, they often begin to act in ways which undermine the love they feel for each other. They make demands, show disrespect, become angry, are dishonest, act thoughtlessly, and develop a host of annoying habits. If tolerated, these Love Busters will destroy a couple’s love for each other.

This life-changing book, which has been completely revised and updated, will teach you how to replace those destructive Love Busters with Love Builders--positive habits that will strengthen your relationship. You will learn how to:

· turn selfish demands into thoughtful requests
· turn disrespectful judgments into respectful persuasion
· turn angry outbursts into controlled reactions
· turn dishonesty into radical honesty
· turn independent behavior into interdependent behavior
· turn annoying habits into pleasing habits

Whether you are newly married or seeking to revive a marriage of many years, learning to eliminate Love Busters and cultivate these love-building habits will deepen your love and affection for each other--for a lifetime.

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Product Details

• Title : Love Busters: Protect Your Marriage by Replacing Love-Busting Patterns with Love-Building Habits
• Author: Harley, Willard F. Jr.
• Publisher: Revell
• Publication Date: 2016
• ISBN: 9781493405565

About Willard F. Harley Jr.

Dr. Willard F. Harley, Jr. is a nationally acclaimed clinical psychologist, a marriage counselor, and the bestselling author of numerous books, including His Needs, Her Needs; Five Steps to Romantic Love; Surviving an Affair; Draw Close; and He Wins, She Wins. Harley's much-loved book, His Needs, Her Needs, is also available with a video curriculum for churches and small groups. His popular website, www.marriagebuilders.com, offers practical solutions to almost any marital problem.