Love Busters: Overcoming Habits That Destroy Romantic Love 
asked by fusionz on November 21, 2006 8:25 AM
How spouses affect each other has a tremendous bearing on the success and failure of marriage. In Love Busters, Willard F. Harley, Jr., helps couples identify and overcome the most common habits that destroy the feeling of love. With his guidance, they will be able to avoid behavior that tears a marriage apart and focus instead on building their love for each other. This new edition expands on six love busters (versus five in the previous edition), including: selfish demands, disrespectful judgments, angry outbursts, dishonesty, annoying habits, and thoughtless behavior. Harley also explains how to resolve various marital conflicts, such as career choices and financial planning. Insightful material from Harley¹s book, Give and Take, is now included in Love Busters, as well as discussion questions that help couples apply the principles in the book to their marriage. With readers now enjoying the anniversary edition of His Needs, Her Needs and the newly released Fall in Love, Stay in Love, it¹s the perfect time for an updated version of Love Busters to round out their collection. This important book both expands on foundational concepts found in Fall in Love, Stay in Love and shows readers how to maintain the love that His Needs, Her Needs taught them to build.
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An awesome and informative book especially when read in conjuntion with the companion book "His Needs, Her Needs".
"Love Busters" talks about how and why problems start in relationships and gives suggestions to fix them. It covers all the things we do to sabatoge our relationships and how we justify our actions in our minds. It really helped me to understand how and why my marriage went from being what I thought was the best thing that ever happened to me to being my biggest and most painful nighmare. It revealed to me all the things we BOTH have done wrong...and they are many!
I've read this book cover to cover 3 times, dog eared many of the pages, highlighted much of the text, and made notes all over the margins. I've loaned it to three separate friends/co-workers, but warned them at the time that they would probably want to get their own copy, so they can mark it up too. All three have and I'm happy to say my book is back in my possession!
"His Needs, Her Needs" covers what is important in relationships, how to keep them strong and how to keep each other happy and satisfied with the relationship. I wish I'd known about and read this book before I ever got married. So many mistakes could have been avoided! It is the perfect engagement or wedding gift! I've no doubt it could help many couples learn how to develop and maintain a loving and satisfying marriage.
So whether you are just getting started in a new serious relationship, starting to deal with some conflicts, or feel like your relationship is going to pieces, you will find both the books to be invaluable. I can't recommend them enough!
"Love Busters" talks about how and why problems start in relationships and gives suggestions to fix them. It covers all the things we do to sabatoge our relationships and how we justify our actions in our minds. It really helped me to understand how and why my marriage went from being what I thought was the best thing that ever happened to me to being my biggest and most painful nighmare. It revealed to me all the things we BOTH have done wrong...and they are many!
I've read this book cover to cover 3 times, dog eared many of the pages, highlighted much of the text, and made notes all over the margins. I've loaned it to three separate friends/co-workers, but warned them at the time that they would probably want to get their own copy, so they can mark it up too. All three have and I'm happy to say my book is back in my possession!
"His Needs, Her Needs" covers what is important in relationships, how to keep them strong and how to keep each other happy and satisfied with the relationship. I wish I'd known about and read this book before I ever got married. So many mistakes could have been avoided! It is the perfect engagement or wedding gift! I've no doubt it could help many couples learn how to develop and maintain a loving and satisfying marriage.
So whether you are just getting started in a new serious relationship, starting to deal with some conflicts, or feel like your relationship is going to pieces, you will find both the books to be invaluable. I can't recommend them enough!
reviewed by bones on November 27, 2006 10:48 AM
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amazing. my wife and i both read this book. from the very first chapter, we saw each other's lives. this book helped me to recognize learned behavior which is unhealthy, for me and my wife. i have genuinely learned simple steps in order to ensure that i do not behave in such a manner as to destroy my wife's romantic love for me. we are doing great, that after a 7 month seperation. i wish i would have read this book 10 years ago. i highly recommend it and would like to teach a course based on this book at church.
reviewed by ibook on November 29, 2006 8:00 AM
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it's based a lot on his previous book. I don't like feeling like I've purchased the same book twice. Overall, a good read & helpful to my marriage.
reviewed by shawn on November 29, 2006 6:21 PM
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Willard Harley Jr. in his book, Love Busters, gives very readable and useable cures for passionless, pointless, pitable marriages. He guides the reader through clear ways to change from conflict to intimacy. Yes, with the same spouses that promised to commit their lives together on their wedding day and now have fallen out of love, his steps work to lead them back to the passion they experienced as newlyweds.
reviewed by vladi on November 29, 2006 7:30 PM