How To Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk
Book Excerpts
It's happened to everyone: you meet someone and fall madly in love and all good judgment and perspective are thrown out the windowuntil slowly you realize this person isn't who you thought he or she was. But follow the steps in How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk—a proven program used by thousands of singles worldwide—and break the destructive dating patterns that have prevented your happiness in the past. This foolproof PLAN will help you determine exactly what your partner will be like as a spouse, while also keeping you from getting blinded by love and providing the tools to build a strong, healthy marriage.
Do you keep picking partners who have the same problems? Can you really know what someone will be like as a spouse? How long does it take to really know someone? Is this “the one”? There's only one way to find out. Based on years of research on marital and premarital happiness, How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk maximizes your potential of finding “the one” by giving you the tools to focus on the crucial characteristics of a loving, lasting relationship.
Childhood experiences are some of the strongest predictors of what your mate will be like as a spouse and parent. In How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk, Dr. John Van Epp gives you the tools you need to judge your partner's character based on compatibility, relationships skills, friends, and patterns from family and previous relationships. Based on Dr. John Van Epp's nationally renowned "How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk" workshops, this book helps you simply and succinctly identify—and break—destructive dating patterns, especially those learned from childhood.
How can you tell when you should trust a partner? How can you trust again after your trust has been betrayed? How does a confident feeling of trust develop? These questions highlight some of the perils and pitfalls of determining the measure of trust you should place in a partner. In How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk, Dr. John Van Epp walks you through the development of trust, its relationship to intimacy, and maximizes your potential of finding “the one” by giving you the tools to focus on the crucial characteristics of trust in a loving, lasting relationship.