professor of counseling. SUMMARY In his book Strengthening Marital Intimacy, Ron Hawkins provides a useful, highly readable, and solidly biblical discussion of the importance of marital intimacy as well as ways for couples to strengthen that intimacy. The book is written for Christian couples aiming to improve their marriage and marital intimacy, though the book is written a notch higher than most mass-market/self-help type books, yet it remains more approachable/engageable than a dry merely academic
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Resorts’ primary target market is defined as the active, romance-expectant couple. The typical clientele are adults over the age of 18, with 85% of the Resorts’ clients originating from North America, while 10%-15% originate from Europe. Sixty percent of the Resorts’ clients fall in the 25-44 age bracket while 30% fall in 45-64 age bracket. Returning guest patronage accounts for over 40% of clients, while engaged couples who wed at the Resorts and honeymooners represent 25% of guests. The average
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Kayla Ferguson 5th period 5/10/2011 Reflective Paper When I came into Communication Application, I didn’t know anything about it, or what it had to do with my daily life. But for the past three six weeks I’ve been in the class, it has really informed me about the many ways of communicating. During the first few weeks of class we quickly started to jump into the lesson. First we learned about communicating with our body language. We had to show many different ways of facial expressions, eye
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Family Y is a traditional nuclear family with a four-month-old infant. The parents are both immigrants from Japan who are here only on limited student visa statuses. Most of their extended and immediate families are still in Japan. However, the couple has been successful in building a small group of dependable friends that form their support system. According to AY, acculturating during their first year in the United States was the most difficult experience she ever had to endure. The language
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Personal Relationships: Application to Chapter 7 Chapter 7 in the textbook (Communication in Everyday Life) discusses personal relationships, both how they’re formed and what they have to offer in our everyday life. Three of the most important aspects of personal relationships are the relationship filtering model, the provisions of relationships and also the breakdown process model. These three aspects represent 3 of the stages that make up a relationship, starting with the creation of a new
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emotion invades every part of your body and soul, we actually think about what we are doing and the person we are doing it with. This is a totalizing sexual experience. But there are plenty of married couples who do not have this experience. On the other hand, there are many unwed, Christian couples who do. If you do not need to be married to have a strong relationship with God, and if you do not need to be married to have a fulfilling sexual experience with your partner, why is pre-marital sex frowned
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the effects that internet has on everyone to this day and even more so in the future. People nowadays can communicate with people all around the world using many different types of communications such as social networking sites, cell phones, emails, etc. Carr brings in many different scientific research as well as a couple of personal experiences to show the great change in technology and the internet. The author chose to write The Shallows from an epiphany he had realized, “It (his brain) was hungry
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What happens to a marriage when the female is the primary wage earner and the male is the secondary? When this happens it creates an environment of inferiority, confuse the marriage structure, and can lead to infidelity and abuse. However, many couples have adapted to these generational changes and united to make lasting marriages. When the wife is the breadwinner in a marriage it creates an environment that the man is inferior to the woman. Since the institution of women’s rights, more women
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successful in today’s society. Because every boy in high school will get the same, preach: “Don’t crash your car, don’t get a girl pregnant and stay in school!” while girls are raised to be nice, respectful and decent. That is also, why more and more couples prefer to have a girl rather than a boy. In the ancient Greece, men would cut off their left testicle, because they believed that would only produce boys and later on women would kill themselves or are killed if they did not give birth to a boy. For
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COMMUNICATION Latoryia Sanders Com 200: Interpersonal Communication Lisa Rollins June 3, 2013 I never know the choice of words between two people determine the way they communicate. I read the article “Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance”. It really taught me a thing about communication in my own relationship. Since I started on this chapter I have learn how to communicate better and the words I use or different. I don’t use I, me, or my it’s us, we, our words that let you
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