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How to Let Go of the Need for Approval

By Ilene Strauss Cohen — 2018

When we urgently aim to please other people, we’re seeking approval of self from outside sources. And whenever we reach for something in the outside world to give us what we should be giving ourselves, we set ourselves up for disappointment.

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ADHD and Autism Relationship Accommodations -- How to Get Your Needs Met

We all have needs. We all need our relationships to help meet those needs. So...what if it can't? This is where relationship accommodations come in.

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2021
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The Asperger Couple’s Workbook: Practical Advice and Activities for Couples and Counsellors

Asperger Syndrome (AS) can affect some of the fundamental ingredients required to make relationships work, such as emotional empathy and communication. This workbook provides couples affected by AS with strategies that will benefit their relationship together, and their family as a whole.

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Maxine Aston
2025
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The Couple’s Guide to Thriving with ADHD

More and more often, adults are realizing that the reason they are struggling so much in their relationship is that they are impacted by previously undiagnosed adult ADHD. Learning how to interact around ADHD symptoms is often the difference between joy together and chronic anger and frustration.

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Melissa Orlov, Nancie Kohlenberger
2025
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Fearless Relationships: Simple Rules for Lifelong Contentment

Rediscover the simple truths that make a relationship thrive with familiar and revealing insights from best-selling author Karen Casey. Tending our relationships is our highest calling as human beings, says Karen Casey.

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Karen Casey
2003
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How Can I Get Through to You? Closing the Intimacy Gap Between Men and Women

Bestselling author and nationally renowned therapist Terrence Real unearths the causes of communication blocks between men and women in this groundbreaking work.

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Terrence Real
2002
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See How this Single Question Saved a Marriage

This story is about a situation where Todd, a husband, almost left his wife and kids, and the wife found a way to ask one non-defensive question that led to a conversation that saved the marriage.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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Married to Distraction: How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption

Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic...

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Edward M. Hallowell, Sue George Hallowell, Melissa Orlov
2011
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Marry Him: The Case For Settling for Mr. Good Enough

An eye-opening, funny, painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of modern relationships and a wake-up call for single women about getting real about Mr. Right. You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you haven’t found “The One” just yet.

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Lori Gottlieb
2011
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Waiting for Mr. Right?

CNN's Tony Harris talks to the author of the new book, "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough."

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Lori Gottlieb
2010
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Gary Chapman - The Five Languages of Apology (11/13/2013)

For more Wheaton College 2013-2014 Chapels visit https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9GwT4_YRZdCSd1xjLVgnOLFs19dHkoiL Connect with Wheaton: http://www.wheaton.edu http://www.facebook.com/wheatoncollege.il http://www.twitter.com/wheatoncollege http://www.instagram.com/wheatoncollegeil

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Gary Chapman
2015
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