Relationships That Work (And Those That Don't): The Single's Guide to Looking for Love in All the Right Places

Young people today, many of whom grew up in painfully dysfunctional homes, are waiting longer to get married, often out of fear of choosing the wrong partner. They want desperately to get it right the first time. Now singles can find help and hope in an excellent guide to relationships that will work and those that won't. Dr. H Norman Wright provides simple, practical guidelines for identifying partners with positive potential for a loving, long-term relationship. Just as important, Wright shows how to avoid wasting time, money and emotional energy on hopeless relationships with incurable negatives. Topics include compatibility, risk-taking, infatuation versus love, the dangers of premarital sex, common relationship mistakes and the characteristics of a godly, healthy relationship.

H. NORMAN WRIGHT is a grief and trauma therapist and a licensed marriage, family and child therapist who was in private practice for more than 40 years. He is currently the Research Professor of Christian Education at Talbot School of Theology, where he has taught graduate students in counseling and psychology for four decades. He has authored more than 80 books, including the bestsellersAlways Daddy's Girl and Communication Key to Your Marriage. He has twoice received the Gold Medallion Award.