Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs (Focus on the Family)
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Based upon Ephesians 5:33 and extensive biblical and psychological research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the power of unconditional love and unconditional respect and how husbands and wives can reap the benefits of marriage that God intended.Based upon Ephesians 5:33 and extensive biblical and psychological research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the power of unconditional love and unconditional respect and how husbands and wives can reap the benefits of marriage that God intended.
Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs (Focus on the Family)
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Harry Truman vs The Aliens
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Pulp Legend Emerson LaSalle is back, and to introduce him to a new generation of readers, we present this short story. It’s hi-powered pulp sci-fi action. Aliens are invading! Who can stop them. Harry DAMN Truman. That’s who.
This short story serves as an intro to the hi-adventure pulp sci-fi tale THERE ARE ALIENS BEHIND URANUS, MR. PRESIDENT coming to a Kindle near you in May 2012.
Includes a critical introduction from Adam Openheimer, Ph.D.Pulp Legend Emerson LaSall
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Good principal, disappointed in tone and tangibles…,
I thought the principal behind the book was something that will help virtually every married couple. My husband and I laughed at sections b/c we found some of the anecdotes so spot on to our daily lives. Eggerichs clearly explained to us why we keep going through the “Crazy Cycle.” The Respect/Love needs in men/women is potentially a marriage saver or breaker.
I have 2 constructive criticisms of the book. I still recommend this book, however I do give these caveats:
1. This book talks as if men know how to love their wives. There may be a million books out there on how to do it, but we didn’t have those. My husband and I were reading this one. And I grew weary of hearing how women needed to learn to respect their husbands. Frankly, I grasped the principal within the first few pages. After a few chapters, I felt like rolling my eyes a little. Because he paid so little attention to talking about how men should love their wives, it felt like that part was very trivialized. I understand that was not the point, however, the title was “Love & Respect”, not just “Respect.”
2. I would have liked more tangible examples of exactly what it means to “Respect” my husband. I want to do it. And he made it clear that “nagging, complaining, and whining” at him were disrespectful. But I need more examples. What are the active things I can do? Is it disrespectful to remind my husband to take the garbage out the night before? If it is, then how do I make sure the task gets done w/out reminding him? It isn’t an issue of control, but I have to get the kids out the door in the morning and I need help and I need him to do this one thing. Make sense? I need to know how to have those discussions w/out disrespecing him.
I hestitate to use this as a small group book b/c it is so one-sided. And it tends to repeat itself. Again, I got the principal pretty quickly. And as good as it is, after a while, enough is enough. Another reviewer said it felt a bit like a brochure for the conference. That is exactly how I felt.
A good book? Yes. A helpful principle? Absolutely. A must-read? Maybe. But definitely helpful to a Christian marriage and therefore, I do and would recommend it.
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|An ok basic premise, but enough problems that I’d advise other books over this one,
The good:
1) I like the connection between love and respect. Every time he says husbands need respect and wives need love, you have to translate that mentally into *both* husbands *and* wives need love *and* respect, but the basic premise is a good one — the Christian understanding of love indicates an attitude of honoring, respecting, and blessing the other person.
2) The crazy cycle and reward cycle. This is one of the most important things most couples could learn. Our behaviors are self-reinforcing and good things to lead to more good things in a cycle. Likewise, bad things often lead to more bad things. The good news is that we serve a God of redemption and just as the gospel message teaches us that Christ breaks us out of a cycle of sin, God can redeem broken marriages and break them out of destructive cycles.
3) For *some* couples, a disrespectful attitude toward the husband or an unloving attitude toward the wife *is* the problem. For those relationships, I imagine they would benefit greatly from this book.
The not-so-good:
1) As mentioned by several reviewers already, the book is incredibly sexist. I started making a `W’ in the margins when Dr. Eggerichs blamed the wife for the problem and a `H’ when he blamed the husband. Skimming back through, it’s about 90% W’s. Just about any time he says something negative about the husband, you are almost guaranteed to get a follow-up sentence about how his wife’s pettiness or nagging or belittling comments or criticizing or bitterness or whatever was really the root cause of the husband’s behavior. At times, it was to the point I thought he was emasculating men by making us out to be powerless — we can’t take responsibility for our own behavior because every issue is probably our wife’s fault anyway.
2) It’s kindof a continuation of #1, but I honestly can’t believe he found a man and a *woman* to blame the husband’s marital infidelity on the wife. Finding a man who wants to justify his immorality by blaming his wife shouldn’t be too hard, but Dr. Eggerichs found a woman who blamed *herself* for her husband’s philandering. The idea that a man has so little control over his own actions that he is to be expected to wander if his wife doesn’t `put out’ often enough is just galling.
3) The narrowness of the focus. As I mentioned above, a disrespected husband or unloved wife is a problem for some couples. But there’s lots of reasons marriages struggle, and disrespect is only one of the possibilities. Dr. Eggerichs doesn’t acknowledge that at all.
4) He spends quite a bit of energy being defensive about it, so Dr. Eggerichs clearly realizes that the idea of unconditional respect has some problems. I honestly don’t see the appeal of unconditional respect. If I want respect from my wife (which I most certainly do!), I will act in a way that *deserves* respect. Why would I demand her unconditional respect regardless of my actions unless I couldn’t be bothered to earn it?
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|Pulp Genius,
When I was a child, my Uncle Cleo would talk about some of the “great writers” he read — Carroll John Daly, Louis L’Amour, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Emerson LaSalle. Uncle Cleo was an unpardonable drunk with a love of the ponies, though he never gambled. He also referred to turtles as “the devil’s urchins.” He was an odd man. But he loved his pulp novels. And, for some reason, ascots and radiator coils.
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|Pure Pulp from a Past Master,
This story is exactly what it says it is – Harry Truman version some seriously badass aliens. Of coure, Truman being Truman, we know who’s the real badass.
I’m really pleased someone is reprinting LaSalle’s stuff, he’s an unfairly forgotten genius. I mean, sure he wrote a lot of crap, but Ray Bradbuy was writing softcore porn around that time just to pay the bill, and you never hear about that, do you?
I sincerely hope that this is not the last LaSalle story to come to light.
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|LaSalle is BACK!!!,
In the pantheon of great pulp writers, none stand taller than Emerson LaSalle and thank goodness his work is being brought back into the public eye. Who else could capture the essence of Truman AND aliens??? (Seriously – this is a fantastically fun story. Campy, silly and will make you laugh out loud!)
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