Being Better at Being Married: Building a Deeper Relationship Through Mutual Understanding

WALK ALONG A PATHWAY TO SELF-DISCOVERY AND RE-INVIGORATE BEING MARRIED

This book follows a very different path toward helping you be better at being married. Authors Ronald Joyner and Terry Smith do not focus on how couples should best behave. Rather, they offer readers the necessary material and tools for discovering why spouses relate to one another the way they currently do.

Couples often underestimate the importance of their personal beliefs. This is true for matters such as power and control, safety and security, and affection and esteem. Deeply held beliefs tend to prevail over what people know and how they think they ought to act.

Being Better at Being Married contains stories, tools, and structure for focused discussions. Each element is designed to create growth through learning and interaction, which are needed for better understanding your spouse and yourself. Study, discuss, and adapt what you read in this book to help transform how you see yourself, how you perceive and interact with your spouse, and how much you experience life being enriched by being married.

RONALD G. JOYNER, LFACHE, received a Master of Hospital Administration degree from the Medical College of Virginia and served twenty-five years as a hospital executive. He has also served in church governance and marriage ministry oversight. He and Terry Smith integrate the concepts of personality with the elements of spirituality to improve the experience of being married. He lives with his wife, Sandra, in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.

TERRY S. SMITH, D.Min., received from Boston University a Doctorate of Ministry in Personality, Religion, and Culture. He has served as a university-based teacher and counselor, a counseling center director, and a life coach in church and corporate settings. Terry currently serves as Founder and President of Coaching: Life Matters, a non-profit educational organization. He lives with his wife, Charlotte, in Brentwood, Tennessee.