The Family You’ve Always Wanted: Five Ways You Can Make It Happen Book

Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue: An Outsider in the Family

Part 1: Families Who Serve
1. From Pain to Pleasure: A Personal Journey
2. How Families Serve

Part 2: Husbands and Wives Who Relate Intimately
3. Our Longing for Closeness
4. Five Steps to Intimacy

Part 3: Parents Who Guide
5. Talking, Doing, Learning
6. The Challenge of Creative Teaching
7. The Challenge of Consistent Training

Part 4: Children Who Obey and Honor Parents
8. Why Obedience Matters
9. The Gift of Honor

Part 5: Husbands Who Love and Lead
10. The Meaning of "Leading'
11. What Fathers Do for Their Families
12. For Wives Only: The Fine Art of Encouraging

Epilogue A Word from Shelley and Derek Personal Assessments: Your Turn Notes Resources

GARY CHAPMAN, PhD, is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The 5 Love Languages. With over 30 years of counseling experience, he has the uncanny ability to hold a mirror up to human behavior, showing readers not just where they go wrong, but also how to grow and move forward. Dr. Chapman holds BA and MA degrees in anthropology from Wheaton College and Wake Forest University, respectively, MRE and PhD degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has completed postgraduate work at the University of North Carolina and Duke University. For more information visit his website at www.5lovelanguages.com.