Men S Relational Toolbox

Tool tips for making your relationships effective and successful.

Smalley shows readers how to identify certain core fears lurking in their hearts and to appropriately deal with them so they no longer drive unhealthy patterns that can severely damage loved ones and friends.

Contains 70 universal tools that you can use to deepen your personal relationships, enhance your marriage or liven up your love life. Use these tools to create changes in yourself or use them to motivate changes in your partner.

Wife unhappy? No or very little sex? Talk of a costly divorce? If this sounds familiar, fortunately (yes, there is good news here) you just found the right book. This short book was written with the good guy in mind. The guy that works hard, cares about his wife and family but has no clue or very little clue about why his wife is not happy with him. In just 50 pages, you will be given straightforward tools - what to do and what to say - to get your relationship back onto the happier track. Even those that are relationship impaired can apply these tools to bring back that happy wife, that healthy sex life and rebuild a successful marriage.

Men! Take your marriage from a "5" to a "7" or take it from an "8" to a "10"! Just following a few principles we learned from Dr. Talley.Be reconciled to one another as friends! (with benefits)This book helps men who want to improve their marriage. It was written specifically for men who consider themselves to be followers of Christ. Some of the chapter titles are: Focus on Yourself, The Big “H”, Your Top 5 Priorities, Financial Leadership, Better Sex and Best Friends. This book contains stories and advice that can help any marriage. It is written for men who claim to be followers of Christ. You will gain a better understanding of your leadership role as a husband. You will uncover what your priorities should be. You might even learn a few things that will improve you love life.Randy and Sherri Allsbury were heading for divorce when they met Dr. Jim Talley. This book tells the story of reconciliation, renewed friendship and hope for all marriages. “After the verbal blast to her heart from a church lady, Sherri made some new resolutions in her life. She came to the realization she could not please the church people, she could not please her husband, and she could not please God. So, she quit trying. From that point on, my sanguine wife decided to make money and have fun. She did, or at least that's what it looked like from my vantage point.I began to seek counsel on how to get my wayward wife back on track. Sherri's uncle Roger told me about a guy name Dr. Talley a while back and I had sent a few people from my congregation to him for marriage help. My marriage was heading south fast, so I decided to make an appointment and take my wife in for a tune-up and a straightening out. It was mid to late June of 2000 when my wife agreed to go to counseling with me. I needed him to straighten her out, because her behavior was starting to affect my ministry. We talked to Dr. Talley for about 45 minutes and when our time for that session was up, he looked at me and said. “Mister, it's time for you to get your priorities in order, or this sweet lady will end up killing herself.” If you apply the tools in this book to your marriage, your relationship will improve, no matter how good or bad things are.

What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories—stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down through the centuries about women and men, power and war, sex and love, and the values we live by. Stories written mostly by men with lessons and laws for all of humanity. We have outgrown so many of them, and still they endure. This book is about what happens when women are the storytellers too—when we speak from our authentic voices, when we flex our values, when we become protagonists in the tales we tell about what it means to be human. Lesser has walked two main paths in her life—the spiritual path and the feminist one—paths that sometimes cross but sometimes feel at cross-purposes. Cassandra Speaks is her extraordinary merging of the two. The bestselling author of Broken Open and Marrow, Lesser is a beloved spiritual writer, as well as a leading feminist thinker. In this book she gives equal voice to the cool water of her meditative self and the fire of her feminist self. With her trademark gifts of both humor and insight, she offers a vision that transcends the either/or ideologies on both sides of the gender debate. Brilliantly structured into three distinct parts, Part One explores how history is carried forward through the stories a culture tells and values, and what we can do to balance the scales. Part Two looks at women and power and expands what it means to be courageous, daring, and strong. And Part Three offers “A Toolbox for Inner Strength.” Lesser argues that change in the culture starts with inner change, and that no one—woman or man—is immune to the corrupting influence of power. She provides inner tools to help us be both strong-willed and kind-hearted. Cassandra Speaks is a beautifully balanced synthesis of storytelling, memoir, and cultural observation. Women, men and all people will find themselves in the pages of this book, and will come away strengthened, opened, and ready to work together to create a better world for all people.

The Toolbox gives you the twelve tools we ALL need to make our relationships work. Starting with "The Right Mindset" (Chapter 1) to "Self-Awareness (Chapter 12), The Toolbox will take you on a journey inside yourself and through every relationship you have. We all grew into adulthood and assembled the tools we needed for living: earning, working, budgeting, buying, selling, and homemaking. We have garages filled with tools to fix things. We have all the nuts and bolts for our favorite hobbies. But did we acquire the tools we need for the most important job of all: loving? The Toolbox is essential reading for anyone who wants to be healthy in their relationships. Don't settle for luck or chance. Get the tools you need, hone them, and watch your relationships transform.