The bestselling husband and wife team, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott offer expert advice and practical tools for improving the most important aspect of human life: relationships. Real Relationships reveals the secrets for healthy, authentic, and meaningful connections that lead to a better life.
In this updated edition, Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott dig below the surface to the depths of human interactions, offering expert advice and practical tools for improving the most important aspect of human life: relationships.
Designed for college students, young adults, singles, and dating couples, this cutting-edge book teaches the basics of healthy relationships, including friendship, dating, sexuality, and relating to God. Newly updated and expanded to include the latest research on relationship building and vital information on social networking, it provides readers with proven tools for making bad relationships better and good relationships great.
A workbook is also available, which contains dozens of self-tests and assessments that will help readers determine their relational readiness, the health of the home they grew up in, their understanding of gender differences, and much more. Real Relationships and the Real Relationships Workbook furnish an honest and timely guide to forming the rich relationships that are life's greatest treasure.
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| Introduction: Our Longing for Belonging |
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1 The Compulsion for Completion |
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2 Keeping Family Ties from Pulling Strings |
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3 Bridging the Gender Gap |
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5 What to Do When Friends Fail |
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6 Falling in Love without Losing Your Mind |
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7 Sex, Lies, and the Great Escape |
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8 Breaking Up without Falling Apart |
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9 Relating to God without Feeling Phony |
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Number-one New York Times bestselling author and psychologist Dr. Les Parrott has been featured on Oprah, CBS This Morning, the Today Show, CNN, and The View, as well as in USA Today and The New York Times. His books, which include Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts and many others, have sold over five million copies. Les and his wife, Leslie, a marriage therapist, are the creators of BetterLove.com, a resource for couples. Les and Leslie live in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Leslie Parrott is a marriage and family therapist and codirector with her husband, Dr. Les Parrott, of the Center for Relationship Development at Seattle Pacific University. She is the author of First Drop of Rain and God Made You Nose to Toes, and coauthor with her husband of several bestselling books, including the Gold Medallion Awardwinner Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts. Leslie is a columnist for Todays Christian Woman and has been featured on Oprah, CBS This Morning, CNN, and The View, and in USA Today and the New York Times. Leslie lives in Seattle with her husband and their two sons. Visit LesandLeslie.com
