Love Must Be Tough
by James C. Dobson
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You've forgiven a thousand times. You've bent over backwards to make your partner feel loved and accepted. But the only reward for your loyalty has been anger, indifference, infidelity, or abuse. Your spouse may even be ready to walk out the door. Do you feel like all is lost? Are you ready to give up? There IS still hope. Dr. James Dobson's "tough love" principles have proven to be uniquely valuable and effective. Unlike most approaches to marriage crisis, the strategy in this show more groundbreaking classic does not require the willing cooperation of both spouses. Love Must Be Tough offers the guidance that gives you the best chance of rekindling romance, renewing your relationship, and drawing your partner back into your arms. show lessTags
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Dr Dobson examines the most devastating conflicts occurring between husbands and wives in this book. He is convinced that a firm, but loving confrontation is needed to tackle the problem before it is too late. This is the way to restore respect to a failing marriage relationship.
Dr Dobson examines the most devastating conflicts occurring between husbands and wives in this book. He is convinced that a firm, but loving confrontation is needed to tackle the problem before it is too late. This is the way to restore respect to a failing marriage relationship.
Again, one of the many self-help divorce books I read. This guy has to be a right-wing Republican, but he had a lot of good points and good advice. Unfortunately it was too late for us.
The book gives many examples of couples in which one partner engaged in sexual affairs or used illicit substances. When the other partner accepts this behavior to attempt to maintain the relationship, trust and respect diminish until the relationship eventually ends.
This book is to every person who has been rejected and wounded by a husband of wife on whom everything depended. Praying that there words will begin the healing process and provide a basis for genuine forgiveness to thrive. For only in forgiveness can peace be found.
It talks about marriage, adultery, interpersonal relationships and other family problems in general.
I read this at the recommendation of a friend who read it during the time of her divorce but was too fearful to put it into practice.
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James C. Dobson was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on April 21, 1936. He received an undergraduate degree from Pasadena College and a Ph.D. in child development from the University of Southern California. He was an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and on the attending staff of show more Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. He was founder and president of Focus on the Family, an organization that produces nationally broadcast radio programs on domestic issues, but is no longer affiliated with the organization because of significant philosophical differences with the new leadership. He is founder and president of Family Talk, a nonprofit organization that produces his radio program, Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk. He is the author of more than 30 books dedicated to the preservation of the family including The New Dare to Discipline, Love for a Lifetime, When God Doesn't Make Sense, Life on the Edge, Love Must Be Tough, The New Strong-Willed Child, Marriage Under Fire, and Head Over Heels. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Love Must Be Tough
- Original title
- Love must be tough : new hope for families in crisis
- Alternate titles*
- 堅韌的愛 : 婚姻危機中的新希望
- Original publication date
- 1983
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to every person who has been rejected and wounded by a husband or wife on whom everything depended. I pray that these words will begin the healing process and provide a basis for genuine forgiveness to ... (show all)thrive. For only in forgiveness can peace be found.
- First words
- More than 45,000 letters and hundreds of telephone calls pour through our Focus on the Family offices each month, representing the full range of human circumstances and need.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I pray that the Lord will bless your home with love and warmth and every good thing.
- Disambiguation notice
- ISBN 0849916410 is for the 2-in-1 Love Must Be Tough [and] Straight Talk
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 646.78 — Applied Science & Technology Home economics & family management Sewing, Grooming, Life Skills Management of personal and family life Family life
- LCC
- HQ734 .D628 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home
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