What's the forecast for your marriage? Marriages are as variable as the weather, and every marriage has a climate. Some are chilly and lack intimacy. Others are stormy and filled with conflict. But while the weather outdoors is beyond our...
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What's the forecast for your marriage? Marriages are as variable as the weather, and every marriage has a climate. Some are chilly and lack intimacy. Others are stormy and filled with conflict. But while the weather outdoors is beyond our control, the communication climates within our homes can be changed--for the better. Communication specialist Tim Muehlhoff offers simple strategies for improving the climate of a marriage. Our individual words and actions always take place within an overall atmosphere of expectations. Without a healthy climate of trust, we are prone to miscommunication and misunderstanding. Muehlhoff shows how to take an accurate climate reading of a relationship and explains what causes climates of poor communication. With current research on marital communication, listening skills, empathy and conflict resolution, Marriage Forecasting provides practical ways for couples to rebuild a warm relational climate. Don't just talk about the weather. Break the cold front, clear the fog, and change the extended outlook for your marriage.^^Communication specialist Tim Muehlhoff offers simple strategies for improving the climate of a marriage. Our individual words and actions always take place within an overall atmosphere of expectations. Without a healthy climate of trust, we are prone to miscommunication and misunderstanding. Muehlhoff shows how to take an accurate climate reading of a relationship and explains what causes climates of poor communication. With current research on marital communication, listening skills, empathy and conflict resolution, Marriage Forecasting provides practical ways for couples to rebuild a warm relational climate.^^Don't just talk about the weather. Break the cold front, clear the fog, and change the extended outlook for your marriage.Acknowledgments^Introduction^1 What Are Communication Climates?^2 Environmental Press: Why Marriage Can Be a Struggle^3 Improving Your Communication Climate^4 Strengthening Trust in Your Climate^5 Talking Your Way into a Supportive Climate^6 Taking a Reading of Your Marriage^7 Calling a Truce^8 Changing How We View Conflict^9 Seven Principles for Making Disagreements Productive^10 The Necessity of Forgiveness^11 Hurricane Warnings: When Conflict Turns to Abuse^12 Our Communication Climate with God and Why It Means Everything^Epilogue^Resources^Notes
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- Catalogue Code 360484
- Product Code 9780830868254
- ISBNÂ 0830868259
- EANÂ 9780830868254
- Department General Books
- Category Relationships
- Sub-Category Love, Sex & Marriage
- Publisher Intervarsity Press Usa
- Publication Date Oct 2010
- DRMÂ Free
- Printable No
- Size 0.31 MB (EPUB)
Tim Muehlhoff
Tim Muehlhoff (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) has served on the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ since 1986. He is currently an associate professor of communication at Biola University in La Mirada, California, where he teaches classes in interpersonal communication, rhetoric and gender.
Tim has written about God, communication and faith in diverse publications such as the Journal of Religion and Communication, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Mars Hill Review and Discipleship Journal.
He has co-authored The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your Faith with J. P. Moreland -Tim Muehlhoff says that often the best way to win over others is with a good story. Stories have the ability to get behind our preconceptions and defences, and most recently he has co-authored Authentic Communication: Christian Speech Engaging Culture (Christian Worldview Integration Series) with Todd V. Lewis and Marriage Forecasting:Changing the Climate of Your Relationship One Conversation at a Time.
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