How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships
Henry Cloud / John Townsend
简介
Dating can be fun, but it's not easy. Meeting people is just one concern. Once you've met someone, then what? What do you build? Nothing, a simple friendship, or more? How do you set smart limits on physical involvement? Financial involvement? Individual responsibilities? Respected counselors, popular radio hosts, and best-selling authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend apply the principles described in their Gold Medallion Award-winning Boundaries to matters of love and romance. Helping readers bridge the pitfalls of dating, Boundaries in Dating unfolds a wise, biblical path to developing self-control, freedom, and intimacy in the dating process. Boundaries in Dating helps singles to think, solve problems, and enjoy the benefits of dating to the hilt, increasing their abilities to find and commit to a marriage partner. Liberally illustrated with insightful, true-life examples, this much-needed book includes such topics as: Sins You Can Live With--Recognizing and choosing quality over perfection in a dating partner - Don't Fall in Love with Someone You Wouldn't Be Friends With--How to ensure that honest friendship is one vital component in a relationship - Don't Screw Up a Friendship Out of Loneliness--Preserving friendships by separating between platonic relationships and romantic interest - Kiss False Hope Good-Bye--Moving past denial to deal with real relational problems in a realistic and hopeful way . . . and much more.
目录
Acknowledgments
Why Dating?
Part 1: You and Your Boundaries
1. Why Boundaries in Dating?
2. Require and Embody Truth
3. Take God on a Date
4. Dating Won’t Cure a Lonely Heart
5. Don’t Repeat the Past
Part 2: Whom Should I Date?
6. What You Can Live With and
What You Can’t Live With
7. Don’t Fall in Love with Someone
You Wouldn’t Be Friends With
8. Don’t Ruin a Friendship Out of Loneliness
9. Beware When Opposites Attract
Part 3: Solving Dating Problems: When You’re Part of the Problem
10. Adapt Now, Pay Later
11. Too Much, Too Fast
12. Don’t Get Kidnapped
13. Kiss False Hope Good-bye
14. Boundaries on Blame
Part 4: Solving Dating Problems: When Your Date Is the Problem
15. Say No to Disrespect
16. Nip It in the Bud
17. Set Appropriate Physical Limits
18. Set Up a Detention Hall
Conclusion