Only when you and your mate know and respect each other's needs, choices, and freedom can you give yourselves freely and lovingly to one another. Boundaries in Marriage gives you the tools you need. Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the award-winning bestseller Boundaries, show you how to apply the principles of boundaries to your marriage. This book helps you understand the friction points or serious hurts and betrayals in your marriage -- and move beyond them to the mutual care, respect, affirmation, and intimacy you both long for.

Contents

A Tale of Two Couples

Part 1: Understanding Boundaries

1. What's a Boundary, Anyway?

2. Applying the Ten Laws of Boundaries to Marriage

3. Setting Boundaries with Yourself

Becoming More Lovable

Part 2: Building Boundaries in Marriage

4. It Takes Two to Make One

5. What You Value Is What You'll Have

6. Value One

Love of God

7. Value Two

Love of Your Spouse

8. Value Three

Honesty

9. Value Four

Faithfulness

10. Value Five

Compassion and Forgiveness

11. Value Six

Holiness

Part 3: Resolving Conflict in Marriage

12. Three's a Crowd

Protecting Your Marriage from Intruders

13. Six Kinds of Conflict

14. Resolving Conflict with a Boundary-Loving Spouse

15. Resolving Conflict with a Boundary-Resistant Spouse

Part 4: Misunderstanding Boundaries in Marriage

16. Avoiding the Misuse of Boundaries in Marriage

Conclusion

Dr. Henry Cloud is a popular speaker, and co-host, with Dr. John Townsend, of the nationally broadcast New Life Live! Radio program, and cofounder of Cloud-Townsend Clinic and Cloud-Townsend Resources. His bestselling books include the Gold Medallion Award-winning Boundaries books and Making Small Groups Work. Dr. Cloud and his wife and two daughters live in Southern California.

El Dr. Henry Cloud es un conferenciante de gran popularidad. Con el Dr. John Townsend es anfitrión del programa de radio New Life Live!, además de ambos ser fundadores de la Clínica Cloud-Townsend y de la organización Cloud-Townsend Resources. Es el autor de varios libros premiados con el reconocimiento Gold Medallion, entre ellos «Límites» y «El poder transformador de los grupos pequeños». El Dr. Cloud, su esposa y sus dos hijas radican en el Sur de...