Before a Bad Goodbye
How to Turn Your Marriage Around
Published on 6. June 1999
288 pages
978-1-4185-6587-9 (ISBN)
Description
Tim Clinton has seen three outcomes through his marriage counseling practice-divorce, marriage in name only, and reconciliation. Reconciliation is, by far, the most difficult option. In Before a Bad Goodbye, he shows couples at the breaking point how to nurture forgiveness, develop mutual respect and demonstrate selfless love on a new path to reconciliation.
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Before a Bad Goodbye
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07/1999
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Tim Clinton, Ed.D, LPC, LMFT, is president of the American Association of Christian Counselors. He is professor of Counseling and Pastoral Care at Liberty University and is executive director of the Liberty University Center for Counseling and Family Studies.
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part 1. Reframe
- 1. Worlds Apart
- 2. A Closed Spirit
- 3. A Room without Exits
- 4. Door #1: The Big "D" (Divorce)
- 5. Door #2: In Name Only
- 6. Door #3: Staying Power and the Power of Staying
- How Couples Lose at Love
- 7. Everyday Pressures That Tear at Love
- 8. The Path of Disaffection
- 9. The Cycle of Disaffection
- 10. Unmet Needs
- 11. The Downward Spiritual Spiral
- 12. Polarization-The Red Zone
- 13. Islands of Me
- Part 2. Reclaim/Release
- 14. Coming Out of the Pain
- 15. Preparing to Cross over Troubled Waters
- 16. Called to a Spiritual Task
- 17. The Power of Love
- 18. The Safe Zone
- Part 3. Reconcile
- 19. Turn Your Love Around
- 20. Choose to Love Again
- 21. Help Your Love Grow
- 22. A Point of Commitment
- Part 4. Refashion
- 23. I'll Go on Loving You
- 24. Begin to Celebrate
- 25. Intimacy-The Island of We
- 26. Sexual Intimacy
- 27. The Island of Three-Spiritual Intimacy
- 28. Overcoming the Barriers
- 29. Love Remains
- Notes
