Dealing with People Who Drive You Crazy: Setting Boundaries on Your Difficult Relationships
Some of the most difficult people to deal with are those who fail to take responsibility for their lives and who wreak havoc in their relationships. Author and relationship doctor David Hawkins offers help for those caught unavoidably in the craziness of a disordered person’s life. With clear explanations, examples, and real life solutions, Hawkins shows readers
- how to develop healthy life skill tools and boundaries
- when, why, and how to confront a person who drives them crazy
- how disordered people think, act, and see the world
Anyone trapped in another person’s cycle of disorder will discover ways to change their own response, perspective, and communication, and ultimately will find the hope of peace in the chaos.
When Trying to Change Him Is Hurting You
With a rare combination of realism and hope, Psychologist David Hawkins, author of When Pleasing Him Is Hurting You, offers practical suggestions for women who want to improve the quality of their relationships by helping the men in their lives become healthier and more fun to live with. Women will be empowered to honestly evaluate their situations and make courageous decisions to implement nine tried–and–true secrets for relational success, including these:
- be utterly truthful with yourself
- rise above your excuses
- break free from the inner vow of silence
This compendium of tools for interpersonal growth is also an invaluable resource for pastors and counselors.
Formerly titled Men Just Don’t Get It—But They Can.
The Relationship Doctor's Prescription for Living Beyond Guilt
Dr. David Hawkins explains the difference between real guilt, false guilt, shame, and conviction, bringing these hidden feelings into the light and demonstrating how they can reveal the true causes of emotional pain. He demonstrates that feelings of guilt can come not only from our own poor choices but also from other sources, such as…
- perfectionism
- rejection from a family member or friend
- failure—real or perceived
- emotional or verbal abuse
- codependency
Readers will be encouraged and inspired to take responsibility for their lives as they discover biblically sound remedies for each of the four kinds of guilt and strategies for avoiding guilt in the future.
The Relationship Doctor's Prescription for Healing a Hurting Relationship
Dr. David Hawkins uncovers the hidden reasons why couples may be hurting emotionally. He offers practical steps couples can take to heal their hurt and lays out a plan for preventing needless pain in the future.
This concise and easily accessible manual also identifies several communication strategies that couples often use but that actually never work, and it offers more helpful alternatives:
- Focus on ways you can agree, not ways you disagree.
- Attack the problem, not the person.
- If you’re winning arguments, you’re losing the battle.
Readers will find plenty of helpful alternatives to their destructive communication patterns and a full supply of easy–to–use steps to increase their emotional intimacy and restore the joy in their relationships.
Love Lost: Living Beyond A Broken Marriage
Does Your Man Have The Blues?
Understanding male depression and how it affects your relationship.
See Dick And Jane Grow Up
Remember Dick and Jane—those chubby cherubs from elementary school? When Dick and Jane were children, the world was a simpler place to live. Marriage roles were well defined. Troubles were perceived as adventures that would end happily as every good storybook adventure should.
Then Dick and Jane grew up. Dick married Linda; Jane married
Rob—and their childhood fantasies collided with the real world of adulthood and responsibility.
In See Dick and Jane Grow Up, Dr. David B. Hawkins helps both men and women identify attitudes from childhood that keep couples from experiencing a full and satisfying marriage relationship in the real world. He offers practical tools and biblical principles that can take you through the Seven Growth Steps of Marriage to a satisfying, mature relationship.
Nine Critical Mistakes Most Couples Make
Drawing from many years of experience as a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. David Hawkins shows that complex relational problems usually spring from nine destructive habits couples fall into, and he offers practical suggestions for changing the way husbands and wives relate to each other. Thoroughly scriptural and eminently up–to–date, this handbook for healthy relationships gently but clearly shows how to
- address problems but avoid emotional explosions
- learn from mistakes
- create healthy boundaries
- establish an atmosphere of humility and forgiveness
- stop battling and begin championing one another
Married men and women, pastors, and counselors will find helpful insights into the challenges all marriages face as well as the strategies for breakthroughs.
Saying It So He'll Listen
She says one thing, but he hears something entirely different. Why does that happen so often, and what can a woman do to bridge the communication gap?
In his 25 years of private practice, psychologist David Hawkins has helped hundreds of women communicate more effectively with their husbands. In this concise and inspiring manual, he offers straightforward, intelligent answers to some nagging questions about dealing with sensitive topics in a relationship:
- How can a wife get a husband’s undivided attention?
- How can she be honest without hurting his feelings or starting a fight?
- Should she expect him to change?
Readers will find new motivation to press through to the ultimate goal of effective communication: reconciliation and greater intimacy in marriage.
When the Man in Your Life Can't Commit
Commitment. To many men this is a scary word—to the women who love them, it is a goal many fear their man will never attain. With empathy and insight, Dr. Hawkins uncovers the telltale signs of commitment failure, why the problem exists, and how women can respond, interact, and create a life with the men they love. Women will be glad to have this book in hand as they discover
- why excuses sabotage a relationship
- how to help the man in your life see the value of commitment
- how limited expectations lead to a limited life
For women in a relationship or considering one, this much–needed book unravels the mysteries of relational intimacy and offers hope for those desiring commitmen